Time for Social Media Marketing

November 17, 2009 :: Maura O'Neill

Maybe you can’t afford a PR firm to answer these questions for you, but you sure can Tweet, Facebook, blog and, generally, jump in on the conversation. You can get some answers.


The Time for Tweeting is Now!

November 14, 2009 :: Travis Petersen

From running advertisements and promotions on new products or deals to reputation management and responding to customer queries, online businesses use Twitter for a number of purposes. Figuring out how you might want to use Twitter for your business is important before registering an account.


#140conf – Interview with Dave Mathews of PeopleBrowsr

November 11, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

I have been using PeopleBrowsr since their beta and when I was at the 140Conf I was pleasantly surprised by two things: their upgraded platform and that Dave Mathews is involved in helping them become an even bigger success. I first met Dave at Gnomedex 2007 when he was working with this little company called [...]


Social Media Workshop for Small Business – Richmond, VA on 11/20

November 10, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

In today’s market where everything revolves around Google, how do you ensure that your prospective customers are finding YOU online among millions of other brands? The main reason why social media marketing is such a phenomena is its ability to transform an unknown name into a popular brand online. So how do you get started? [...]


SEO Buzz-Leveraging SEO and Social Media for Maximum Results

October 28, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Broadly approached as a great standalone marketing strategy, social media marketing is integrated more and more with search engine optimization (SEO). If you are wondering why social media marketing has been so widely adopted by those in the SEO industry is because of the dramatic impact that social media has directly on search engine listings.
Three [...]


GrowSmartBiz: Catherine Read on Success Stories of Small Business

September 24, 2009 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Its a great feeling when one of your customers invites you to their office and that is how I landed up at http://www.townandcountrymovers.com/ for a open house that they held at their offices in Gaithersburg a few days ago. It was a networking event and among the people I met was Catherine Read who helps [...]


Upcoming DC Area Social Media Events: Blog Days of Summer Edition

August 17, 2009 :: Joe Loong

We’re in the dog days of summer (blog days of summer?), so things are supposed to be slow, although it just seems to mean there’s more time available for events, meetups, and other types of social media schmoozing and networking.
Here are a few things upcoming for the metro DC area, culled from DCTechEvents.com, Social Media [...]


Getting your social media fix with podcasts

August 12, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

Podcasting. That was the trendy term of 2005 and when Apple released their new version of iTunes with the podcasting section in their store podcasting consumption exploded. There were all kinds of podcasts. Some well done and some, not so well done. Over the last few years many the quality has improved and the topics [...]


Discovering New Talent Through Social Media.

July 27, 2009 :: Kenneth Yeung

The past few months have seen an increase in brands using social media to find new talent to help promote their product. Some of these include Rocketboom, Murphy-Goode and perhaps most notable Best Buy. Some have been a total success and some have…well…probably been less than that. However, these campaigns have gone to show that [...]


Event on 7/22 – Social Networking for Law Firms 102 in Washington DC

July 15, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

A few weeks back Network Solutions hosted the event Social Networking 101 for legal firms and Raj Malik who spoke a the event wrote a recap “Even Lawyers Can have a Conversation”
The next called “Social Networking for Law Firms 102″ and will be held Wednesday, July 22, 2009 from 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM (ET) in [...]