The Only Book on Social Media Marketing You’ll Ever Need

Several months ago I promised Tamar Weinberg I’d do a video review of her book The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.  My apologies to her for taking so long to get around to it.  After all, how hard can a video book review be, right?
After being sidetracked with other projects shortly after [...]

Sales and Social Media: PB & J or Oil and Water?

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation to our company’s Business Development Directors on the benefits of considering certain social media tools to reach their goals.

Mixing sales (or marketing) and social media is, of course, done by companies and individuals all over the world every day.  But, if your social media approach is [...]

Chris Brogan, Trust Agents and Social Media: Old-Fashioned Common Sense

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a presentation made my Chris Brogan.  Through Thursday you can purchase a DVD of the event.  Christine Taylor and JTMar partnered with Stage Post Studios to not only make Chris available in person to several hundred Nashvillians, but they also streamed the event online, including incorporating [...]

The New Seesmic: Update Facebook Pages and Twitter Accounts From a Single App

Did I recently post I’d given up on Seesmic?  Why, yes I did.
But wait.
No sooner had I gone back to TweetDeck – and I still really like the newest version of TweetDeck – the folks at Seesmic stepped up their game and added Facebook page functionality to the interface.

As someone who manages up [...]

All Access Interview

Recently, I was asked by Jackie Chapman (jchapman[at]allaccess[dot]com), the editor over at allaccess.com, to participate in their “10 Questions with” series.  All Access is a very useful and informative broadcast and music industry, members-only website.

I thought I’d share my answers here before the interview is published on their site and, in the event you’re not [...]

Are You Social Media Director Worthy?

Earlier today, I read a week-old post from Olivier Blanchard on what companies should look for in hiring a social media director (not quite sure how I missed it originally).  In a word, the post is simply fantastic.

If you’ve been handed your company’s social media reigns, charged with hiring this person for your company, [...]

88.7 WAY-FM and Casting Crowns Issue Warning

Seems fewer and fewer media outlets are printing media advisories any more.  With few exceptions, they’re rarely interactive or involve any attempts at incorporating multi-media, social media or you-name-it media.  Often, they’re not much more than words on a page.   In a word, they’re “boring.”

I’ve got a long way to go in my creation of [...]

Pow! Right Between the Eyes!

One of my favorite books of the last few years is easily Pyromarketing by Greg Stielstra.  In it, he outlines the four main steps in the viral marketing process.

Gather the driest tender
Light it with a match
Fan the flames
Save the coals

In this post, I’d like to highlight step two in particular.  It involves the concept of [...]