Have you ever thought about the power of a story? I was sitting around listening to some kids talking yesterday and one was telling a story about his recent camping trip with his parents to a few other kids. As I listened it hit me that social media marketing is a story dressed up as [...]

Social Networking or social media marketing is great for those people who are naturally outgoing and/or confident in themselves. However, when you grow up as a shy introvert, the whole social networking thing can be quite overwhelming. At times, even frightening. As kids we are drawn to be social. We don’t have to think about [...]

Twitter is all the rage right now. Everyone from news networks, celebrities, athletes, marketers, teenagers, schools, churches, and government officials are tweeting it up. The real time interaction is incredibly powerful networking and marketing tool. It’s like you’re attending the world’s biggest, never-ending networking party. What this provides for marketers, affiliates, PR, or anyone wanting [...]

Social media marketing is useless unless you know what you want to accomplish by participating in the various networking websites. I once heard a saying that I’ve pretty much kept in the front of my mind no matter what I’m doing. If you don’t aim for something then you’ll end up hitting nothing. This is [...]

Before there was MySpace or Facebook there was social media. It wasn’t exactly called social media, but the concept was there. Blogging. Blogging can be called social media, or social networking, because it enables the owner of the blog to do a few things. Connect with readers in a more personal way, socialize through blog [...]

In the realm of social media marketing there are certain things you absolutely must do. You can’t get away with cutting corners and leaving anything out. Kind of like breathing… you have to do it. If you don’t, you die. Social media marketing is, of course, more important than breathing. Seriously, in today’s online marketing [...]

I’ve been told recently that there are in the area of around 3,000 social networking websites on the internet now. Probably by next week there will be countless more. That’s a crazy number. It’s a little overwhelming and can scare someone away from engaging in social media and might even discourage those who already are. [...]

Social media is taking the world by storm. It’s everywhere from people on Twitter announcing events and happenings before the news channels do to people connecting and building large networks to further their business. Oh, and there is even some people using social media for other purposes such as keeping in touch with families and [...]

Social media websites revolve around on central theme. Conversation. The conversation between friends, followers, listeners, plurkers, etc… is they key that turns the entire social media machine. Without the conversations you don’t have social. Without the social you don’t have a network. In the marketing world, the conversation is also the key element to a [...]