Sometimes its easy to spot a flaw in someone else that we're blind to in ourselves.  A wise man once said something about seeing the specks in other's eyes and not the planks in our own. And one of the places this is most true is in social media. You know that you're supposed to...

Short, sweet, and to the point.  The lovely folks at GetResponse, an email-marketing company, share the perennial calendar of marketing and advertising.  What buttons work best and when: this works for ALL forms of marketing, and is worth a share.  Get an idea of what topics trend well when.  This works pretty much every year,...

It was the memo that went round the world.  Round kind of like the way the infamous Netflix email went round the world, but this one was kind of bitter-sweet. Andrew Mason, the co-founder of the largest Deal-Site, Groupon.com, was fired by his own company, and before leaving he fired off a missive of his own,...

Blumenthals ran a piece last month chronicling the sometimes deceptive practices of sales reps at companies like Yelp, who in effect prey upon local, small business owners who don't know better, in order to lock them into bad deals that rival the Yellow Pages (read: 12 month contracts at hundreds of dollars per month). Says the...

I have a confession to make.  I am a local-social marketer, and I hate mobile apps. Hate. Like, despise. I think that 90+ percent of them are a complete and utter waste of time. And the above XKCD illustrates the core frustration. And Yet... And yet, if your website sucks, people won't stick around. See,...

Do you know who this Guy is? He's Guy Fieri, of Food Network fame.  Guy has made his face famous by traveling the country and visitng all manner of "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" in search of good tasting (if not good for you) food.  He's become a beloved icon of the Food Network, seeming very...

Trade shows have changed little over the years; aside from a bit more glitz and glamour, they more or less look a lot like they did during the past 100 years. Tables set up with a speaker behind it, perhaps a PowerPoint presentation has replaced the old cardboard display but in general, it looks more...

Comment Marketing: The FASTEST Way to Establish Respectability and Influence Online The concept of "comment marketing" is not that new: leave comments that get eyes back on you.  But the tactics have changed. The "web log", or "blog", as they've become lovingly know, has become the hallmark of the small-scale written world made possible by...