Social Marketing Category

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  Growing Your Brand With Pinterest – My SearchFest 2013 Presentation

  Infographic Marketing Pinterest Social Marketing Social Media Speaking   Branding growing your brand Pinterest Social Marketing Social Media
  

  
  Feb 27 2013

  First of all, SearchFest 2013 was an amazing event.  If you have never been to one, (this was my first) I HIGHLY recommend going.  The venue was fantastic and the content was even better.  I have never been to Portland before, and it what a great town it was!  I even got to try some famous (or infamous) Voodoo Doughnuts!  Props to David Mihm for having me there.  I hope to go back again and [...]

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  7 Ways to Get an Endless Stream of Infographic Ideas

  Social Marketing Social Media Viral Marketing  

  
  Jan 31 2013

  Here at Avalaunch we all have to be creative ideas machines, because every day we come up with ideas for our clients. It’s the perfect position for idea people like me. Our ideas are what sell our work, make us stand out and eventually end up as infographics that get blogged about, linked to and shared. An infographic has to illustrate and illuminate or inform on a topic using images combined with text. To me, [...]

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• Solo Social Entrepreneurs Who Make Lots of Cash

  Entrepreneur Social Marketing Social Media Viral Marketing  

  
  Feb 10 2010

  I’m obsessed with the solo entrepreneurs who are successful leveraging social media to launch a business. They start with a simple idea – like pay me and I’ll wear your t-shirt around LA. They put up a blog, take pictures and video of themselves wearing your shirts and promote it on their social networking sites. That’s the beginning of IWearYourShirt.com The idea caught on and now there are 2 guys (it should be WeWearYourShirt.com). Then [...]

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• A Nickels Worth Of Free Online Marketing Advice

  Local Marketing Social Marketing   Facebook Local Marketing Social Marketing Twitter
  

  
  Oct 20 2009

  As I was searching online for some information to one of my favorite Mexican food joints here in Arizona I ran across several problems with their website and wanted to share them here.  I also came across several areas where I thought they could capitalize on social marketing, increase traffic to their website and interact better (online) with the people who love them. The Argument: You walk into one of their locations and they are [...]

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• Don't Be The Community Moron

  Social Marketing   communities Social Marketing yelp
  

  
  Oct 13 2009

  I was checking out some Yelp listings this morning, and come across something that made me wanna rant for just a bit. If you are going to participate in communities like Yelp, and leave your two cents (or reviews in the case of Yelp), then why not FULLY PARTICIPATE?  People are not going to give what you say a second thought if you are doing anything like Paul B. here: In my opinion reviews like [...]

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• Getting Confused On All These Social Media Sites?

  Social Marketing   Facebook Marketing social Social Media squidoo Twitter
  

  
  Sep 26 2009

  Here is a question I received yesterday that I felt would make a good social marketing post (because I have been asked numerous times before). I get confused on the social media sites like, Facebook, Twitter, even Skidoo etc. Should I be setting up a profile under my name to follow me specifically or setting up something that tells people to follow my website? Here are my thoughts:  My answer depends on the specific network, [...]

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• $70k in New Business from one Press Release?

  Branding Business Link Building Social Marketing  

  
  Sep 21 2009

  I had a dream conversation with a new client today. I often don’t hear the results of my client’s success or lack thereof. To be honest I didn’t expect this one. The business owner lives out of the country. When we announced programming classes he held in the US. I knew that he didn’t get a lot of response. I wrote a press release and even though no one came to the classes, people found [...]

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• Are You A Rattlesnake Neighbor?

  Social Marketing   communities networking social Social Marketing
  

  
  Sep 09 2009

  I was thinking about my old town (which happens to be owned by the Government now – seriously no kidding, look at the picture) and some of the neighbors I grew up next to. The reason I started thinking about this is because I was trying to compare it to what kind of a neighbor I am in life, and especially online.  It begs the question: What kind of a neighbor are you? I had [...]

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