Month: May 2011

I’m pretty sure that’s how that song by Tina Turner goes, right? Hmm, anyway…moving on 🙂 Around the time when SXSW was going on, you could generally find three kinds of statements. 1. OMG I’m so excited!!!! 2. I’m not going to SXSW. I’m going to be making money. 3. I wish I was at… Continue reading Trade Shows and Conferences: What’s Engagement Got To Do With It?

Posts over the last week ranged from actionable ideas for marketers and Social Media users to how to live life more fully to how to make a real difference in the world. I really enjoyed each and every one of these posts and am proud to showcase them here. I hope you enjoy them!

A lot of people talk about Social Media as a revolution. It’s a revolution in how we market our companies. It’s a revolution in how we communicate. But like most revolutions, the revolutionaries may be getting kind of high on their success. That’s the bug that got good ole Napoleon. He kept becoming more and… Continue reading A Social Media Revolution? Here are 47 ways to make it happen

If you are doing more than Social Media “stuff” to promote your company, products, and services, you may feel like all of this talk about engagement only relates to the Social Media part of what you’re doing. This can be a dangerous way of thinking, however. Just like you want to engage with customers and… Continue reading Are you engaging on your website?

I have been hearing a lot of buzz the last few days about something Gary Vaynerchuk said on TechCrunch TV. Apparently, Gary said that 99.5% of social media experts are clowns. Not surprisingly, this created a rather large amount of blow-back, so Gary posted another video explaining his perspective. While I’m not sure I would… Continue reading It’s time for Social Media to grow up