Please Don’t Complain to Me About Facebook’s Data Use Policy

Use your Facebook account to Sign in on other Websites

I got an email today from a visitor on my site who was concerned about my Aweber email newsletter sign up form.  Aweber uses the Facebook API to detect if you are signed into Facebook, and if you are it preloads the form with your email address.  It also indicates your number of friends. Facebook’s [...] Read more »

2011 YouTube Video Traffic Review

2011 YouTube Anayltics Review

As many of your know I like to shoot a lot of video.  In fact,  I published 61 videos on Youtube in 2011 – you can see them here on my YouTube channel.  I have several other YouTube channels too, but I’m not going to refer to those in this post. I like video as [...] Read more »

LinkedIn is Top Social Media Channel for B2B Marketers

linkedin b2b marketing channel

LinkedIn is the smallest and oldest of the big 5 social media platforms, yet is surprisingly the preferred social media marketing channel among B2B marketers according to a recent study by Safefrog Marketing Greoup. Survey respondents often cite LinkedIn as the top social media site for B2B marketers, but others put Facebook and Twitter above [...] Read more »

How to Find and Add Local Google Plus Users to your Circles and Grow your Social Network

Share my local Google Plus Circle

Searching for and adding local Google Plus users to your Circles can be a time consuming process, but I’ve come up with a solution to make it easier. I’ll use my “Cville” circle for local Charlottesville Google Plus users as an example. 1. Share your local Google Plus Circle with your followers. Go to Circles [...] Read more »

Social Media: You Can’t Be Everywhere, Nor Should You

social media be everywhere

As marketers, many of us strive to “be everywhere” on the Internet.  It seems like a reasonable goal given the capabilities of tools like TweetDeck, Ping.fm and others that allow us to continuously share information across multiple social media platforms at once. Or maybe, you’re spending hours shooting video, blogging and podcasting because you almost [...] Read more »

Social Media Expands with Launch of Google Plus Pages for Business

After much anticipation, Google Plus Pages launched this week.  It’s another significant step for Google as they attempt to steal market share from leading social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.  To setup your Google Plus Page, visit http://plus.google.com/pages/create. Here’s a quick quote from their official blog post announcing Google Plus Pages … In life [...] Read more »

Why it may be time to purge your Twitter account

What is your following strategy on Twitter? It’s kind of a funny question but if you’ve been on Twitter for any length of time this question has crossed your mind. Most people start out on Twitter by following friends or colleagues that they already know and soon they branch out to people within their geographic [...] Read more »

Social Networking Site Usage Among Adults on the Rise

Social Media Adult Usage Statistics

I often hear the excuse from reluctant business owners that “our customers don’t use social media.”  I often come back with a series of statistics, such as the following that suggest otherwise. Fully 65% of adult internet users now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 61% one [...] Read more »

Companies Still Struggle with Social Media Return on Investment (ROI)

It’s amazing to hear that with all the hype over the past couple years that a large number of companies have yet to measure social media return on investment. Over half of executives in the food and drink industries do not measure the return on investment ROI they get from their use of social media, [...] Read more »