The Friday Traffic Report:
There are two audiences we deal with in my niche. 1. The people who are totally clueless and new to the social marketing, Web 2.0 thing.2. The know-it-alls who will grill me for even saying “Web 2.0″ because they are so advanced and over it.Group 1 pays the bills. Group 2 is just a pain in my ass.Group 1 coul (Read More)
The Friday Traffic Report:
I love how the experts in social media (apparently, everyone who has a Twitter account) bemoan the lack of a plan for building a following in your niche.Well, #1, there aren’t many people to follow anyone in any particular niche yet except that we all follow Scoble. There are only 5 million Twitter users. All 5 mill (Read More)
Submitted by Alexlinebrink
from Digg:
As a 3-year DIGG user, I know the power of the social 'nets. That's why, upon launching my band's first album today, we turned to our Facebook community for support. But something remarkable happened: only hours after launch, we're sitting at #200 on Amazon MP3's top albums list. Can the DIGG community make an independent (Read More)
The Friday Traffic Report:
1. Blogs that force people to log in to comment.2. Marketers who continue to think interruption marketing is going to work on social sites.3. People who see someone succeeding with a certain kind of blog and build one just like it filled with content just like it.4. People who start sites identical to sites like Digg or (Read More)
The Friday Traffic Report:
Here are the Wordpress comment plugins I am using to get more comments and make my commenting area much more social:CommentLuv- Automatically searches for commentators’ last blog post and links to it in their comments.KeywordLuv - Allows commentators to leave a keyword in their Name field.WP-Twitip-Twitter ID - Enable (Read More)
Marketing Profs Daily Fix:
Dale Carnegie's timeless classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a book about building winning relationships, both business and personal. As an example, his advice about how to make people like you states... Become genuinely interested in other people. Smile. (i.e. Have a sense of humor) Remember that a person (Read More)
The Friday Traffic Report:
We humans are funny things. We want to be invisible offline really badly. Yet we seek high visibility online while unwittingly cloaking ourselves like Harry Potter in a shroud of invisibility.While scientists are getting close to figuring out real world invisibility tech, working their brilliant minds into pretzels over i (Read More)