Triberr, or How I Instantly Extended My Reach to Over 145,000 People.
Dino Dogan was introduced to me by my friend Mark Schaefer. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that Mark has been a bit of a mentor of mine. When Mark told me that Dino was a guy I should pay attention to, I listened. From the get go, I saw that Dino and I were very similar type people. He says what he thinks and doesn’t sugar coat anything. If you want to hear that your ideas are all 100% great, and your design inspiration is nothing less than phenomenal, he is very probably, the wrong consultant for you. If you want to hear the straight truth, check...
read moreSuccessfully Drive Tweeple to You Blog
Granted, this post isn’t for everyone out there, simply because not everyone is trying to get people to read their blog. However, I’ve been asked about this enough, I thought I’d put a post down. Twitter can be your blog’s bestset buddy. Now you can’t use Twitter just for your blog, rather you shouldn’t, but if you do have a blog and you’re trying to get a bit more out of it, try some of these tips. Tweet-easy Website Let’s face it, unless you are one of the stars of the blog sphere, people will not go out of their way to tweet your content....
read moreCMS Wars: WordPress vs. Drupal
First let me say, I am no code monkey. I can Google enough code to bend just about any WordPress template to my will, but coding a site from scratch in a huge fail for me. I’d love to learn, but it’s just not in the cards for me right now. I’m envious of those who can code whatever their imagination comes up with. Sites that are beautiful, imaginative, and still simple and direct in their functionality are the spice of the net. The other day a young, up-and-coming designer friend and I were discussing various cms solutions. I am, by nature of my coding ineptability, an...
read morejAVERDE Coffee Co Does Social Media, the Right Way
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with @lrknight, founder of Entrepreneurs of Knoxville, and the guys from jAVERDE Coffee Co. We were there to brainstorm some ideas on how to expand our respective companies. Javerde is a eco-green business and have a great coffee product that is just waiting to explode out of it’s one shop in Knoxville. I felt honoured that they would include me in their quest for expansion. I knew that I followed them on Twitter (@jAVERDE_Coffee) so I went to check out how they were handling their Twitter presence. It was there that I saw the most beautiful...
read moreBecome a Tribal Chieftain
The need to belong is an intrinsic motivation to affiliate with others and be socially accepted. Let’s face it, that’s the first big draw to social media. The marketers know it, and if you think they aren’t taking advantage of that, think again. We all want to be part of a group, to be accepted, to be approved of, and to be missed when we are gone. In short, we want to be a member of a tribe. Where do these tribes begin, and how do they grow? The first part of that question is easy. They begin with you. I’m gonna use Twitter for most of my examples here since it...
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