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Use a tool like Tweegram to visually convey your most important ideas on sites like Pinterest and Instagram.

Gary V. Few people in the world are as recognizable by their first name and last initial as Gary Vaynerchuk. For anyone who’s been active online over the past few years, the name alone is enough to spark hours of conversation about wine, technology, social media, or the New York Jets. On April 25, I [...]

Earlier this week, Facebook announced a number of new features, primarily focused on how people will interact with the site (and soon, many other websites) from their mobile devices. (You can get a complete rundown of all the announcements here.) Deals Come to Place Pages Undoubtedly, the feature that will have the greatest impact on [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about had it with social media presentations that focus on the big, impressive numbers. They’re virtually meaningless to the majority of marketers. Stop trying to sell your boss on social media by telling her that Facebook has almost 500 million users, and start focusing on real reasons [...]

Imagine the following statements as a part of any marketing message: Visit our website! Call us on your phone! Come to our store! None of these would be very helpful to me as a consumer unless I knew the web address, the phone number or the physical address of the business. They’re not worth much [...]

Facebook is on a roll, recently crossing over 400 million users. Marketers want a piece of that action, so it’s no surprise that Facebook Pages for businesses are hot right now, too. It seems like a Facebook Page is a must-have for most marketers. But before you start accumulating hundreds or even thousands of fans, [...]

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 [...]