Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
What is RSS and How it is Addictive
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…
Read MoreFirst Steps to Successful Marketing on Facebook
Today, there are more than 500 million active users, 50% of these users log in daily. Every average user has 130 friends. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. With those kinds of statistics Facebook is a natural for B2C businesses trying to build a loyal following: businesses like restaurants, hotels, sporting…
Read MoreFirst 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…
Read MoreFun Facts about Symbols
Hi Everyone! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Day with friends and family. Keeping it on the lighter side today, as everyone runs out for Black Friday shopping or whatever you do on a ‘free’ day like this one. Sometimes it’s nice to look behind what’s going on in our world, things we often take…
Read MoreStrategy 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…
Read MoreCleaning 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…
Read MoreSocial Media- Room to grow
Here are some interesting facts about who is… and who isn’t using the Web. Do you think there is room to grow? 40% of small businesses don’t have a web site 81% of entrepreneurs still don’t take advantge of social media 47% don’t think that Facebook, Twitter or even LinkedIn are beneficial to their business…
Read MoreWhere 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…
Read MoreThis Should be Keeping You Up at Night
Saying “The world has changed” is a gross understatement. The momentum is building so quickly, there isn’t much you can do about it, right? What about evolutionizing your business, so that it doesn’t go the way of the dinosaur? Where do you begin? It begins with learning, in general, and, specifically, new technology, new media…
Read MoreChili Today, Hot Tamale!
No, this isn’t a food blog. And I know I won’t get great SEO from today’s title, but I couldn’t resist! Here’s the hottest tamale, that I saw today, on Facebook. link: http://on.fb.me/aaTVWP. Look’s like The LibraryThing.com page is hiring for a bookish social-savvy employee. Embracing all things social media should win, right? Based on Facebook, it…
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