Pinterest is exploding right now. Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board or pin board. You create boards, give them names, and then create “pins” which are mostly pictures you find on the web of stuff you like. Then, you share your boards and pins with friends and everybody has a good time. It has a…
Category Archives: Social Media
Poll Results for Streamlining Social Media
A few days ago I conducted a poll on whether or not people were abandoning social media accounts. The number of people who participated isn’t large enough for the results to be considered as representative of the majority of my readers and the results are not unexpected (at least, by me). Here are the results……
Poll: Are You “Streamlining” Your Social Media?
After my recent 5 Profitable Business Blogging Predictions for 2012 post, life coach Tim Brownson wondered in the comments if others like him had “streamlined” their social media. In other words, did they shut down or ignore social network accounts in favor of only a few “big ones” they either liked more or profited more…
Should You Use Google+?
I was originally gonna write the next installment in the business blog post types series, but then Google+ happened. And the whole damn interwebz blowed up. Nobody can shut up about Google+, it seems. And right now, you’re probably wondering if you should get into it or not, and if so, to what degree. Because,…
Should You Really Use Your Photo as an Avatar Online?
This is a guest post by Nancy Stuckwisch Are photos of yourself the best way to make your brand recognizable and customer friendly? Only if you never change the photo. This is swimming against the tide, I know, but isn’t the point of branding to create a consistently identifiable image? Shouldn’t we make it as…
Do You Tweet Like a Woman?
AOL and Nielsen recently released a report with some interesting numbers regarding gender and communications styles in social media. The report is concerned about how gender should be best addressed in social media marketing. They use the word “targeted” but I don’t like that. Your ideal client is more than a target. Targets are shot…
What is Quora (and why should you care)?
Quora is taking the interwebz by storm. Question & answer type sites have come and gone, but Quora seems to have reached the tipping point. It’s getting a lot of attention and a lot of users. What is Quora? Quora is a place where you can ask and answer questions. How Quora differs from previous…
Social Media is the New “Online”
After reading Why Your Social Media Strategy Sucks (EDIT: somehow forgot the link when I first published this, now fixed), I was reminded of an old IBM commercial from the 90s. If I remember correctly, it may have been a Superbowl ad (chances are, however, I’m not remembering correctly–mind like a steel trap: everything gets…
Just Tweeting for Online Business May Not Be Enough – Measure Your Twitter Power
Twitter can be an online business’ best friend, sending traffic and helping to get those precious backlinks as followers spread what you’ve tweeted. Kudos to you if you’re using Twitter to connect with new people, grow your network and send traffic to your blog. One way you know you’re getting traffic from Twitter is to…
The Golden Triangle of Online Marketing, Part 2: Social Media
There are three major online marketing channels for any business these days: blogging, social media, and email. If you haven’t read the first post in this series, check it out. It covers blog marketing for business. In this post, we’re going to cover the second point in what I call the Golden Triangle of Online…
Social Media Marketing May be about Driving Behavior, not Conversation
On February 1st, I attended the Burlington Social Media Breakfast in Vermont, where Adrian Ho of Zeus Jones gave a really smart presentation on social media marketing. The video is below. If you can’t see it in your email or reader, come on over to the blog to watch it. I think you’ll find watching…
Social Media Marketing Done Right
I recently had an interesting social media encounter with Eric Romer of HeadBlade, whose history is a great modern social media and internet marketing success story. To see what happened, watch the video below. If you don’t see it in your email or reader, you can find it by visiting the blog. I think Eric…
The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Marketing Your Business on Twitter
Twitter seems to have come out of nowhere to become one of the world’s most popular online social services behind Facebook and MySpace. Twitter now has millions of users, and even Oprah got on it, putting it in the minds of millions more yet (and irking thousands of existing users in the process). Celebrities and…
How to Not Pay Attention on Twitter (and Make Embarrassing Blunders)
This is kind of embarrassing, because you’d think I would know better. But when you’re excited about something and you want to share your enthusiasm with others, it can blind you to obvious things you should pay attention to. So I’m going to tell you this little story about how I made a faux pas…
How to Add Tweets to WordPress
Can’t see the video in your reader or email? Watch it on the blog. This video walks you through how to install a plugin for WordPress 2.7 (self-hosted) that displays your Twitter posts (called “tweets”) in your blog’s sidebar. I’m not doing this at the moment on Remarkablogger, as you can see, but I will…
Do You Hate Social Media?
I’m noticing a split in the blogosphere, a division that feeds itself and creates more division. I’m talking about the social media haters versus the social media lovers. Not everyone thinks social media is all sunshine and sparkles. Some people look at social media like something that slithered out from under a slimy rock. The…
How Social Media Amplifies Blog Marketing
From Commenting to Social Media Comments are cool, but they take forever and after all that writing, you only have a few of them to show for your labor. Comments are only created as fast as you can create them. Well, no kidding, you think. But before you think I’m simply stating the obvious, here’s…
Social Media Bought My Car
Social media bought my car. Well, not really. Social media made my down payment on a car after I had an accident that totaled my Jeep. OK, that’s not really it, either. Social media didn’t buy anything, although it makes for a catchy headline. No, people who cared helped me out of a jam. They did…
10 Social Media Tips from 30,000 Feet
Ding! This is your Captain speaking. You see a lot of tip posts on blogs for specific social media services, which is like flying low to the ground and looking at only one thing. What I want to do here is fly up to 30,000 feet to see the social media landscape from the air…
ProBlogger’s New Blog about Twitter – TwiTip
Darren Rowse has created a new blog all about Twitter, called TwiTip. I’ve written two posts for it, so far, and hope to continue to in the future. Darren and I both love Twitter, but we both know it wouldn’t be a good idea to bombard readers of our regular blogs with posts about Twitter….
The Beginner’s Guide to Twitter
This is a guest post by Deanna de Bara from Sugarrae.com. As a relative “newbie” to the social networking scene (I sporadically use facebook and myspace, but thats about it), I was interested to try Twitter, a social networking and micro blogging site that has recently become popular with internet enthusiasts. The program began as…
The Top 5 Mistakes Internet Marketers Make on Twitter
If you’re in internet marketing and you want half a chance to succeed on Twitter, pay attention. I don’t know who you’ve been listening to telling you how to make it on Twitter, but if they’re telling you to do these five things, then they don’t understand social media, and you shouldn’t listen to them….
How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog with StumbleUpon and Twitter
Social media drives traffic to your blog. Period. But there’s better ways and not-so-better ways to do it. In this (late) audio post, I go over in some detail exactly how to use StumbleUpon and Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I know that sounds a bit mercenary, but when you hear the details…
Introducing the Remarkablogger Twitter FollowUp 1 – Get More Followers on Twitter!
UPDATE: comments are now closed. Thanks again everyone for participating! This was amazingly successful and I’ll be doing it again! Subscribe to the blog in the meantime. I’m doing it AGAIN. Oh… did you think I was done helping you increase blog traffic? No, my friends! For you see, now it is time to take…
How to Ask for Diggs and Actually Get Them
An online acquaintance of mine sent me a personal email, courteously asking if I would mind digging his post. Here was my reply to him: I don’t mind at all. Dugg. You know, I received all manner of automated shouts and whatnot today and I ignored every one of them. I dugg yours because you…
Why the Bleeding Edge of Social Media is Important for Tech Bloggers
Do you blog about technology? Feel like a drop in the ocean? I don’t blame you, it’s a pretty crowded field. One way to stand out is to live at the bleeding edge of social media. Sure, having a huge profile on Digg is great, but participating in the latest social media fad might be…
How Social Media Helps Grow Your Blog
Social media helps grow your blog in several important ways. With all the social media hoopla (and in some cases, backlash), I wanted to write a clear explanation for you about the relationship between social media and blogging. If you’ve just recently discovered blogging, and are still puzzled by social media, this post is for…
How to Use Twhirl, a Twitter Desktop Program
Note: You may want to watch this at full screen. Click on the 4 arrows in the player’s upper right corner. Twhirl is a rockin’ desktop program for Twitter, the part micro-blog/part chat web service started by the guys who created Blogger. Twitter is taking the blogosphere by storm, but using it over the web…
Video Tutorial: Basics of How to Use Twitter
You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video. I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen. I realized there’s some…
What Picture Do Your Social Media Activities Paint about You?
Sorry Sorry, but I didn’t Stumble your post, even though you asked nicely and you’re my friend. Why didn’t I? After all, it was a great post about overcoming addiction. Sorry, but I didn’t Digg your post, even though normally I would do so. But I didn’t touch your Digg submission, which was a news…
