I'm the guest speaker for the August meeting of the Social Media Breakfast in Waco. I'll be giving a short talk on what Wilsonart International has been doing in social media spaces for the past 18 months or so.
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Last week Google announced it was pulling the plug on Google Wave. When introduced, it was touted by some to be a revolutionary new way to communicate online. Some opined it would replace email, instant messaging and a host of other communication methods. I didn't think it was "all that and a bag of...
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Sometimes we techie types take for granted that certain things need to be done as a part of our web marketing efforts. Because of that, we sometimes neglect to tell others why we do what we do. Once we convince someone they absolutely need a web site, even if their business is small-ish, they...
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Last week I took #3 son and two of his friends to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Like the other times we've gone, we had a good time riding the rides and watching the shows. Of course, being the web marketing geek I did notice they are doing some interesting things in social media. It...
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TweetThe PubCon folks offered up some great training in Austin, Texas on July 21st. Some excellent speakers were lined up who presented some excellent search marketing information. There were two tracks offered: “SEO: Organic Search Optimization” and “Social Media Marketing.” Jen and I hung out in the Social Media track and weren’t disappointed. I...
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Godin starts out Linchpin: Are You Indispensible? (Amazon Affiliate link) insisting everyone is a genius, though, perhaps, not in the “genius” way we think of Einstein, Hawking or other Nobel Prize winners. He stresses, though, that everyone is a genius in their own way. Each of us has something in us which makes us...
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This past weekend during our church 4th of July picnic, I had an opportunity to talk social media marketing with someone who has a different objective than most of us. Rich is not a business person, though he does work in business. Right now he's just "passing through" while he and his wife work...
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Yesterday evening Jen and I headed down to Dave & Buster's in Austin for the Austin Internet Marketing Meetup featuring Brett Tabke of Webmaster World and PubCon. Brett spoke for about an hour around social media SEO and protecting your web efforts from rogue SEO tactics.
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Here are a couple more examples from my Bad Customer Service files. Please read and learn from the mistakes in my stories "Customer Service Disconnect" and "The Mismanaged Web Form."
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My wife and I own a motorcycle. During fair weather season (which is quite long in Texas) I tend to ride to work 3-4 days a week. At between 35-40 miles per gallon, it saves me a fair amount of money - and it's a lot of fun to ride. Motorcycles do require...
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