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How to use Facebook’s tagging feature to link to other business Pages and make your update appear on their Wall.

The parking lot on the north side of the Atlas Building in downtown Columbus is no stranger to unique billboards. The advertisement that is posted on the building now is no exception, so I wanted to take the opportunity to share it with you and get your take on it from the marketing perspective. The [...]

There’s a lot of buzz around location-based applications right now, and one of the services at the head of this pack is a mobile application called Foursquare. Foursquare allows users to earn points by “checking in” at various locations around town. Users can connect with their friends from Facebook and Twitter, and the user who [...]

If there’s one thing I hear most often about social media, it’s that it can get overwhelming fast. (Here are a few tips if this is you.) Whether it’s a blog, Facebook, Twitter, or a Ning site, there are many, many ways to connect with friends, colleagues and prospects, and there are even more tools [...]

What does this have to do with me? Social media has made it much easier for us to spread the word through blog posts, status updates, photos and videos. Unfortunately, it has also increased the amount of noise that you need to cut through to ensure that your message is heard. You need to work [...]

Yesterday, I had a quick conversation on Twitter with Jonathan Saar from the Training Factor. He mentioned how happy he was that his site now appears on page one of Google search results for the term “multifamily training.” That’s pretty exciting, because that’s the exact business that the Training Factor is in. I’m sure it’s [...]

Do you have a self-hosted blog or website running on WordPress? If so, make sure it’s updated to the current version (2.8.4). (You should see the version that you’re currently running when you login to the Dashboard.) There is an ongoing attack on sites running older versions of the software, so it’s important to upgrade [...]

If you follow football, you’ve probably heard that Brett Favre is coming out of retirement (again) to play for the Minnesota Vikings this season. Because of his play on the field, Favre will surely be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame when he finally decides to hang up the cleats. But because of his [...]

Is social media just a fad, or is it fundamentally changing the way we communicate? Think about some of this data: By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers — 96% of them have joined a social network. 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for [...]

If you’re building a wide-reaching web presence for your business, that probably means that you’re using sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo, as well as tools like WordPress, Google Analytics, SocialMention and Tweetdeck (or Seesmic) to connect with customers and spread the word about your products and services. That’s a lot of different [...]