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 [...]


Networking to Grow Your Business – Part 1 of 3

July 9, 2009 :: Scott Lawrence

With the incredible growth of social media over the last few years, many small business owners have started finding success at growing their businesses by networking online, using some relatively simple internet tools. This exciting new world of internet networking can seem absolutely intoxicating at times; the hangover is realized only at the sobering [...]


Announcing the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board

July 2, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

As many of you may know, we are getting ready to rebrand and launch a whole new brand and as part of engaging our community, Network Solutions has put together a group of individuals respected for their opinion and ability to offer insight in places we would not expect.
Here they are:
Tinu Abayomi Paul
Leveraged Promotion, a [...]


Twitter’s Secret Manual – Mashable’s Guide to Twitter

June 30, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

As most of you know I use Twitter for a few things but I am not very prolific on it and that is not because I don’t have things to say, it just comes down to time and deciding which conversations to join into.
“Twitter, despite its many extraordinary uses, can be a bit of a [...]


5 Ways to Kick Off Your Social Media Outreach Activities

June 18, 2009 :: Steve Fisher

This blog covers many topics regarding running your business online and we talk about social media quite a bit. However, I don’t think we have really provided you with some basics to get started if you are trying to make sense of all the tools out there. Sure, we have covered Twitter and the Twitterverse [...]