Bad news today. Social media is not the panacea the media has made it out to be. In fact, in many cases, it can do more harm than good. So while I do like social media and get new blog readers from it, please allow me to share the three most common hazards of social […]
Continue readingI got more traffic to this web site last month (October 2009) than any other month since I started writing this blog. Part of the reason for this is I have some truly great people in my social network. And they have graciously shared and linked to some of the posts I’ve written in the […]
Continue readingI hate to put it so bluntly, but people are dumber than you think. No, I’m not some misanthrope (I really do like people)… and yes, there will be a marketing lesson here. So please bear with me for a moment as I present a few seemingly unrelated pieces of information. In the past few […]
Continue readingThis is a guest blog post by Codrut Turcanu. You can learn more about Codrut by reading the author bio included at the end of his article. Enjoy! -Ryan ****** Oprah got a super twitter traffic increase via her TV show, 3 million followers to be more precise. You don’t need to be a super […]
Continue readingIt all started on July 1 when the topic #moonfruit started trending on Twitter. Within a matter of hours, “moonfruit” was more popular than Michael Jackson. Naturally, people on Twitter started to notice. Tweets started showing up all over the place saying “WTF is #moonfruit?” After all, what could possibly be more popular than Michael […]
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