May 13, 2012

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to every mother out there – what a beautiful day we have been blessed with to honor our mothers, wives, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, and any other mother you know that deserves to be honored today! My message is simple today… For one day of the year (at least) stop telling everyone how wonderful …

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Happy Mothers Day…Spread the “word”…

May 11, 2012

While I can’t profess to know the internal workings or conversations inside Google, I can tell you something that I know they are afraid of and it isn’t rocket science and it isn’t Bing either.  Can you guess what this might be?  I can tell you they are afraid of the same thing everyone else …

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What scares Google to death?

May 2, 2012

I lost count of how many people either sent me or handed me a recent article in USA Today titled, “More companies quit blogging, go with Facebook instead.” There’s no mystery to why…they all know I am a HUGE fan of blogging and believe a blog represents the core of “engagement” in Social Media.  So …

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USA Today suggests a choice…”Easy” or a “Relationship”

April 22, 2012

Let’s go back in time (at least a few years ago) when the Radio was ruling the airwaves and if you were a business you were trying to get on the best shows to promote your business.  If some of you are still thinking and acting this way, I apologize for fast forwarding you into …

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Radio was a good teacher for using Social Media today…

April 14, 2012

I had the privilege of speaking to a great group of marketing leaders from the Sr. Marketing & Operations Roundtable (MM&O) of SMPS in Seattle this week at the offices of KPFF Engineering.  Generally my audiences are their bosses – the CEOs and Business Owners of companies and organizations.  But today, I got to speak …

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What “One thing” annoys me about social media?

April 1, 2012

OK – after giving over 500 speeches and consulting with numerous clients in the area of Social Media and Word-of-Mouth, I surrender, you win!  Social Media IS the biggest time suck and waste of time ever created and as a business you should wait it out and wait for it to go away.  I got …

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Dear CEO – I surrender – you WIN…