Marketing Monster

(Originally published on TouchBase, March 9, 2009.)
Brian Chappell at Ignite Social Media in North Carolina was one of the recently selected users given access to test Twitter’s new search and trending features. Twitter announced on their blog that a random subset of users would be selected while they tested the features. But as of last [...]

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A few weeks back, Charles Mandel from The Globe and Mail (a national newspaper in Canada) asked me some questions for a piece he was writing about a start-up classifieds site who’s strategy was to leverage a Facebook group to get traction. The article appeared today in the Incubator column of the Report on Business [...]

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Discussion about friending people on Facebook has been going on for years: who do you friend and why? Do you accept all friend requests, or are you ruthlessly selective? Do you use it for business or just for close friends and family?
There are no right or wrong answers, but because people use it in different [...]

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Ever notice that the more interested you are in a subject and the busier you are, the faster time flies? Well, that would explain how I arrived at March 3rd while feeling like it should be January 15th. Here’s a brief recap of all the great things that happened, in addition to client work (which [...]

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