TGIF Friday Freebie The iPhone iPad Touch and more

iRon

Hello everyone, I usually don’t post on Fridays, but I came across this cute story and I couldn’t resist. It doesn’t exactly fit into the Social Energizer social media plan, so I decided to make another category – TGIF Friday Freebies. A place for the real light stuff. Everyone needs ‘light’ by Friday. I’m not…

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Online FREE, the new Tchochtke

Henry Ford once said, “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” In today’s inbound marketing terms, this could be the new Holy Grail. Business owners successful at providing…

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10 Easy Tips for Better Blogging

Crunch time? Does it always seem like you are wondering what to write? How do you build buzz needed to pull people to your site? Here are 10 Easy Tips for Better Blogging. No doubt about it, blogging takes time and dedication. The pay-off comes when you find a good-size community that interacts with your site…

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Even Santa likes Social Media

It’s got to be good if Santa likes it. The phenomenon of social media continues into a Christmas-decorated living room near you. Social media are now part of celebrating Santa’s annual visit to children near and far. Mashable has just posted “9 Ways to Connect With Santa on the Web” so kids can get in…

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YouTube Rewind 2010 – The Top 10 List in Links

Here’s the top watched YouTube video mashup from this year. There is no doubt about the power of video in social media… and it’s fun, too. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnXm6cjGwU&w=640&h=390] Could your video go viral? Viral videos are what many business people dream of when beginning their Inbound Marketing strategy, sometimes with unrealistic expectations. Ensuring that a video…

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What is RSS and How it is Addictive

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The typical definition for the initials RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”. This is simply a method of broadcasting your blog or other frequently updated content across the internet or, by subscribing, following multiple sites with one easy tool. By supplying an RSS feed, readers of your blog can quickly and easily access your blog in…

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First Steps to Successful Inbound Marketing

So, you’ve watched Socialnomics with Eric Qualman and now you ‘get it’. Haven’t seen it yet? Here it is again. Now, you’re ready to begin the first steps to successful Inbound Marketing. Because traditional marketing will never be the same. It will no longer get you ‘there’. If you want to move your business forward, then…

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Strategy Problems? Six ways to know if your business is failing.

Surrounded by dumb asses? This is a great article explaining the “dumb ass syndrome” otherwise stated as ‘not understanding why you’re successful or unsuccessful’ by Dave Logan of BNet. A summary of the steps are: 1. Recognize how common the dumb ass syndrome is in the world of business. 2. Ask yourself the question: “Do you…

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Cleaning before the Holidays? Think freecycle.org

I was doing some of my pre-Thanksgiving cleaning this weekend and realized that I routinely use what may be one of the most powerful, but underrated examples of Social Networking. It’s freecycle (www.freecycle.org), a social networking site that allows people to post their unwanted items and pick up needed things –all for free! The posting…

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Where are you going? …with your Inbound Marketing efforts

Inbound Marketing refers to attracting customers to your lodging property through a variety of social media and content distribution and interacting with readers, rather than the older means of buying attention through disruptive advertising and other devices. Simply put, Inbound Marketing employs a ‘pull’ strategy, rather than the ‘push’ strategy employed by traditional marketing techniques. With the sophistication…

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