This one is pretty interesting. The hardest part of any social network is that you have to already know people (or search for new friends) to be able to get something out of it. And sites like stickam and ustream are good if you want to have your own show, but what if you don’t [...]
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I’m sorry. It does. While looking through my RSS reader today I saw two articles back-to-back talking about developing a "personal brand". I can’t explain how angry that phrase makes me. A short list of reasons why I loathe "personal branding" It strips away our humanity and turns us into a fictional concept It describes [...]
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You know you may have a problem when you see something when driving and think “Wow. That’s a good example of search engine optimization.” You are certain that you have a problem when you then take a photo of said location and blog about it. The photo: I apologize for the quality of the image. [...]
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Last night we held the first Boston-Area Startup Marketing Meetup here at Aprigo’s world headquarters in Waltham. I gave a presentation entitled “Getting Your Startup Noticed Online”. It was mostly tactical and focused on execution and content promotion, with a little bit of strategy sprinkled in. About one minute in, I noticed a few attendees [...]
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All right, here we go. Tomorrow is the first Boston-Area Startup Marketing Meetup, and here are the details: 6:30-7:00- Networking- Come on in, introduce yourself to other startup marketers, trade business cards, etc.7:00-7:25- Getting Your Startup Noticed Online- Nathan Burke (the guy writing this who has now switched to the third person) will give a [...]
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I’m really excited about this one, as I love Christopher S. Penn’s presentation style. He always gives usuable, actionable tactics that can be used immediately. That’s a rarity in a lot of conferences I go to. There’s a lot of high-level social media kumbaya, “join the conversation” talk, and things like that, but Christopher does [...]
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All right, here we go. The wireless is working, I’ve got a power strip right next to me, and I’ve consumed about a half gallon of apple juice. Life is most certainly good. The first session I’m checking out is all about SEO, a topic that has always fascinated me. Here’s the description: Bringing SEO [...]
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All right, here we go. The wireless is working, I’ve got a power strip right next to me, and I’ve consumed about a half gallon of apple juice. Life is most certainly good. The first session I’m checking out is all about SEO, a topic that has always fascinated me. Here’s the description: Bringing SEO [...]
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Happy Monday. The good people over at MarketingProfs were kind enough to give yours truly a press pass for the 2009 Marketing Profs Business-to-Business Forum here in Boston. So I’ll be checking out all the sessions today and will be covering them on a few of my blogs: Blogstring.com, MarketingStartups.com, and BtoBSaaS.com. The sessions I [...]
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Last night I got an email from Adam Martin of Qajack, a newly launched “video game” based on Questions and answers. Think of it as Yahoo Answers meets 12seconds. Something like that. Here’s what they say it is: Qajack uses video to play with what you know and what you want to know. It’s deliberately [...]
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