Social Media for Restauranteurs – A Network Solutions and Yelp Event
May 19, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Network Solutions and Yelp are putting on an event here in the DC area that is focused on helping restaurants understand how to use social media tools like Yelp, Twitter, Blogs and Facebook to reach new customers and keep in touch with restaurant regulars and turn them into not only fans but promoters of their business.
If You Aren’t Excited About It…
May 15, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyIf you’re on the fence whether you’re excited about what you do or if the shine has worn off… pick a side and go there. It’s going to suck at times. It’s going to be exhausting at others. There’s going to be days where you look at your loved one, friend, employees, or business partner and think, “What the hell did I get myself into” and the answer to that question is the very same thing “I love what I do for a living!”
Ruminations on “Best Fits for Social Media in the Sales Cycle”
May 12, 2009 :: Steve FisherMany of you out there are looking for ways to maximize your social media efforts to gain customers and I share your experiences of striving to correlate every investment to direct return that is more than what I put in. But when it comes to social media, it is not as straightforward as we wish [...]
Get Your Hand Off Your Wallet And Your Head Out Of Your…
April 24, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyLet me be very honest, starting a business costs money. Starting a successful business…still costs money. Getting the marketing pieces and materials you’ll need to do the bare minimum to promote your business effectively…will cost money.
Does spending a lot of money guarantee you are going to be successful? No, but spending it smartly does help. [...]
When She Says Your Marketing’s a Good Size…
April 16, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyThere’s a quote that I use to keep taped somewhere on the wall behind my monitor. It was:
“Go BIG or go home”
For the longest time I took that to mean that the actions I took in marketing, design, and in life, had to be larger than life. Ultimately, I learned the hard way that ‘big [...]
It’s Time for Your Marketing to Get Wicked…
April 10, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyMy name is Michael Dougherty, Mike if you don’t mind, and, through this blog, I will bring you content whose focus is to help you get into the mindset of marketing your company…from the point of view of your clients. Besides, they are really the ones who pay the bills, right?
To get it out of [...]
SXSW Entrepreneurs: Dave Delaney of Griffin Technologies
March 18, 2009 :: Steve FisherDave is an old school punk rocker transplanted from Toronto to Nashville. He always makes me laugh and he has been a very prolific and popular person in social media. For example, he was the co-host (with his wife) of the very popular podcast “Two Boobs and a Baby” which just recently ended last year. [...]
Solutions Out Loud Podcast Episode #12 – The “Business Launching and Business Crashing” Episode
March 6, 2009 :: Steve FisherWelcome to Solutions Out Loud, the podcast for the Network Solutions community of blogs including Solutions Are Power and Women Grow Business, this is Episode #12, the Business Launching and Business Crashing episode. I am your host Steven Fisher, Community and Blog Manager here at Network Solutions. Joining me today is Joe Loong and Jill [...]
“Social Media & Your Boss” session at South By Southwest in Austin, TX
March 5, 2009 :: Steve FisherA few of us are heading out on Friday 13 to Austin to attend South By Southwest Interactive. This is the early half of the conference with the web and film people before it gets really crazy with the music festival that it began as and is most famous for.
Speaking at SXSW on Saturday is [...]
Participation Is Presence: When You Don’t Post, You Don’t Exist
March 4, 2009 :: Joe LoongI had a “lost cell phone” scare today. I’d only been in three places over the course of the day, and yet I’d still managed to lose it somewhere along the way. I felt especially dumb, since one of those three places was my own house, so I’d really only been to two places (not [...]
