Content Creation for Everyone

Content Creation for Everyone Not everyone is a Writer with a capital W.  Not everyone can easily take the information in their heads and turn it into words on paper.  But often people who don’t think of themselves as writers have wonderful information and knowledge that could and should be shared with others.  An article [...]

Best Public Relations Books and Quora

There’s a new social media platform or tool born every 23 seconds (totally made up statistic but it sounds about right, doesn’t it?)  When you make your living in the social media and marketing world, you need to be aware of the new but also beware of the distraction factor that could pull you off-course.  [...]

Homework for My Social Media Students

As many of you know, I sometimes teach social media seminars through the local community education program (as well I do private social media “tutoring.”  I have classes coming up in 2011 in Twitter and using social media to promote your blog.)  Many people benefit enormously from seeing someone else doing it and explaining it, [...]

PageRank for Dummies: 9 Deceptively Easy SEO Tricks

This week I’ve been busy putting together various marketing plans for 2010.  My simple nine-step action plan for increasing PageRank for one site is a lot more work than it sounds like.  Can you spot the steps that will require practically full-time resources?  Morale of the story: SEO, it’s real work.

Marketing Elephants

I used to use the circus as a device to explain marketing to people.  Here’s marketing by way of the Big Top.