Just How Enticing Are You?

Just how enticing are you? Don’t answer that question yet. First, let me ask you another question. Have you commented on a post here recently? Have you seen the new CommentLuv awesomeness down by the comment form? Yep, I’ve been beta testing the new Comment Luv Premium plugin, and wowsa! I love it! I’m Luvvin’ It!!! Let me tell you why you should be thrilled that I’m using... read more

Finding Lessons In Others’ Successes and Failures

Preface: Before The Lessons Begin Not long ago, I received an email from an employee of a social media marketing agency (Ivy Worldwide) that had just published a book, titled, “Social Media Judo“. I’d been contacted to see if I might be interested in reviewing the book or in speaking to one of the authors. I agreed to review the book, and received it in the mail a couple of weeks ago. It... read more

Conference: The Integration of Social Media and Email Marketing

Want to go to a social media conference in San Francisco in September 2010? I’ve been given a discount code to the Social Email Marketing event that I can pass along to all of you. This conference promises to be special because it melds an old online marketing technique – email – with the growing popularity of social media marketing. Imagine the power of that combination! If you decide to... read more

eBusiness Tips: Goals Can Be Many Things

Today, I chose to focus on some wise words from ’round the web that, in one way or another, have to do with goals. But these aren’t just the typical “make goals” type of posts. They really look at the topic from specific angles, and I love seeing things from different points of view. See if your goals might be able to be stretched in different ways after reading these. 5 Dominant... read more

Learning Social Media Marketing

Samir Balwani is one of the co-contributors in the Project Jump Start ‘09 – DD’s Mini-Stimulus Plan, and he’s generally just an all-around nice guy, who also happens to have some good marketing experiences that we can all learn from. So when he emailed me to see if I would be interested in giving feedback on his new, soon to be live, social media training course*, I didn’t hesitate to... read more