Category: Social Media

  • What social media can do for you

    You probably know how to measure ROI for your business. That’s pretty easy it’s black and white, numbers and dollars. But what about social media? The problem with such a new marketing concept like social media is that it’s difficult to measure. Excuse me, it’s difficult to get the industry to agree on a method…

  • Is your online marketing square?

    Image: luigi diamanti / FreeDigitalPhotos.net It’s great to want to keep up your professional image. In offline marketing that’s the norm. But this is PR 2.0, it’s the next evolution in marketing your business and trying to use the same techniques you use offline in your online marketing efforts comes across as dated. The internet…

  • How to build links to your website

    It’s tempting to think that simply submitting your link to every directory you can find and exchanging links with anyone willing will help your site ranking. In truth, it does take some finesse and a little work. Some sites can even hurt your ranking. Of course because Google’s algorithm is kept more secure than Fort…

  • Let me write your articles for you

    Chances are you are good at something that is not writing. You are a marketer, a sales person, a business owner, a corporate something or other. Writing is a necessary element to what you ultimately want to accomplish, but it zaps your time and pulls you away from your other money making activities. Or maybe…

  • Five essential steps to more site traffic

    Probably the most common question of all questions on the Internet is “How do I get more traffic to my site?” Hands down. There is no higher question. And theories abound, some of them work and some, well frankly, are a waste of time. Some of them are free and some will cost you. If…

  • Will a Social Media Presence Mean More Sales?

    I get asked this by nearly every client I work with. “So you are saying if I have a Twitter account it will mean more sales?” Then I have to see the confusion in their face and read what they are thinking, which is “Then what’s the point?” And my short answer is “Because you…

  • Gorillas in Our Midst

    On my Facebook profile I’ve got many friends I went to school with, some I’ve worked with, many I do business with and five hairy apes. No not ex-boyfriends, but Ugandan gorillas that I friended via an organization called Friend a Gorilla. The group is working to save gorillas by allowing people to “friend” a…

  • Why You Shouldn’t Count on Millennials

    The above title is a little misleading, as you will find out. If you haven’t seen the Public Relations Society of America’s post Status Update: Millennial Staffers Can Update Your Social Media Plan you need to go there and read it. Like now. Because it’s ridiculous and you may need a good laugh tonight. What…

  • How to create a press kit webinar

    I have two jobs. I work with companies wanting to grow their business through social media and cyber public relations. But I am also a writer and journalist, as I have been for about 19 years. It seems, and this is not something they told me in journalism school, that reporting never leaves you. Or…

  • Crime fighting with social media

    First it was your momma on Facebook and now grandma is on Twitter? What’s next? Crime fighting. Yes, authorities and government officials have got on to the fact that there is a wealth of personal information they would love to get their hands on, just offered up into cyberspace by the very individuals on whom…