[stag_dropcap font_size="100px" style="squared"]T[/stag_dropcap]imes are changing. The good 'ol days of free advertising on Facebook have pretty much disappeared. You can't blame Facebook entirely for this as it was just a matter of time before they really needed to monetize all those users and all that data. There's plenty of uproar over this as organic Facebook reach is starting to dip into the single digits, and companies are scrambling to figure out what's next. Some are proclaiming they are ...
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Social Media Isn’t Going Anywhere
[stag_dropcap font_size="100px" style="squared"]I[/stag_dropcap] often get asked from folks whether there will ever be a "social media crash". Similar to the 2000 dot com bust, will all these social channels just crash and burn at some point. My simple answer is always no. The fact is, social media at its core isn't some newly formed concept that just popped up over the last few years. As a society, we've always been "social". It's the technology that has changed that has allowed us to do so ...
Rick Pitino & The Cauldron of Social Media Poison
Sounds like a Harry Potter movie doesn't it? Today an article was posted that quoted Rick Pitino, the head coach of the Louisville Cardinals Basketball Team, as saying that social media poisons the minds of his student athletes, and most people in general. As quoted from the article linked above: I think technology is a great thing in many instances, and I think it's poison in others, and for people in sports especially. He goes on to explain how social media and technology have created a ...
The 5 Top Things That Practically Guarantee Relationship Success
I interrupt the usually scheduled program of social media and technology posts with this little relationship post I felt compelled to write. My blogging has always been inspired by helping others in any way I can. Sometimes that strays from my professional world. This time around it's about relationships. Over the past few years, I've been through some tremendous life challenges and changes and have learned so much that I feel compelled to share what I feel I've learned. One of the biggest ...
You Don’t Have Any Competition
I remember attending a networking event and a talented speaker was up talking about how to grow your business. One of the things he said has always resonated with me, and it was the idea that you have to operate your business with the attitude that you have no competition. At first I kind of shrugged off the idea, but as he spoke more about it, I loved it. Being a business owner (and incredibly competitive), I've always found that I would often peruse the web to do recon on other companies that ...
The True Story Of The Ugly Christmas Sweater Guy
For the past 6 years, every time the holidays rolls around, a new tradition has come upon me; an outpouring of emails and Facebook messages asking me if I know that my picture comes up on Google for ugly Christmas sweater. Or that my picture was used on a flyer for an Ugly Christmas Sweater party. Or recently, that my picture is on the cover of an Ugly Christmas Sweater book. And of course my response is always something of the..."here we go again". But deep down, I kind of like it. There's ...
