I see a lot of sole proprietors and small business people putting forth an admirable effort in using effective social media methods on the internet. However, outside their local shopping sprees I never hear of most of them appearing anywhere offline so they can be met by their consumers. There are still those medium …
My Twitter Manifesto 2010
2009 was a year of many unfortunate changes. Lots changed in the world this past year and especially changed in the way business is done, online and offline. Some of the changes were good and others not so good. What triggered most of the bad changes was due to the failed economy. Many business people, […]
How Many Business Networking Groups should You Join?
During my many visits with business people who are just now coming online I am asked frequently to provide my views on how many social and business networking groups a person should join? This is a really hard question to to just give a general answer since there are so many variables to what each […]
Things About Twitter that will drive you Up the Wall
If you are on Twitter you can’t tell me you have not said to yourself at least once, “is being on Twitter worth it?” Especially after spending a total of two hours of your day going through emails from people who report they are following you only to find their true intentions are to Spam […]
The New Way of Doing Business in GOLF
You have seen enough of all the hype and song-n-dance promotions for everything under the sun for golf. Does it work..truthfully, No. So, since you know and have seen all of these things people in golf businesses are doing wrong lets take a look at how the New way of doing business online for …
The Fine Art of Re-Tweeting
You have all seen them..the long 140 character tweets that have really got something to say you want to show support. However, when you go to Re-Tweet the message to share it with everyone else who follows you, it is over the 140 character limit. How unfortunate since Re-Tweeting use to gets more attention than […]
Coattail Marketing: What Does it Get You?
If you are online in your marketplace building relationships and being involved in your community, then you know what I am talking about with I say someone is using Coattail Marketing. There is a lot…I mean A LOT..thousands if not millions of people starting online businesses or offline businesses that need a strong online …
The Most Over Used Term in Social Media
Like most consultants and devotees of social media I am out here to listen and to learn. However, there is a lot of noise from what seems to be a large number of people trying to come up with unique ways to set themselves apart by using words to describe things and stuff in business […]
Social Media: Misunderstood in Golf Industry
With the arrival of more and more golf businesses to the internet comes the need for them to understand how to communicate with their markets out here in La-La-Land. Social Media is a new to these business people and many try to form Social Media into the OLD box of traditional “Who Can Yell The […]
A Saturday Blog
There really is not much else to do on a rainy dank Saturday..unless you are a blogger. And since today is my Birthday I thought I would take a walk backwards and revisit some of the reasons I am doing what I am doing today to celebrate my birthday. Maybe it will help some of […]
