Here are three social media conferences that I plan on attending in November, and they are all in Orlando, Florida. You should join me! All of these events are built for a wide variety of attendees. If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, PR/Marketing professional, or just someone who wants to learn more about the role of social media and business, you should try to attend these events! What: The B.I.G. (Business Innovation Growth) Summit Description: Targetting entrepreneurs (but rele... Read Full Story

About a week ago, Mashable broke the news about Bing and Google reaching a deal with Twitter to allow tweets to be searched within their search engines. To most people, this isn’t a big deal, but for social media marketing professionals, you know that this will have a huge impact on how Twitter is approached from a marketing standpoint and traffic building standpoint. We Must Be More Strategic With Our Tweets If you are tweeting for a company or brand, your tweets will soon be search... Read Full Story

When I was at IZEA Fest a few weeks ago, there were a few presentations that I really liked. Brian Clark from Copy Blogger talked about how to build traffic to your blog, and more importantly, how Copy Blogger drives traffic to their blog. Clark is a pretty laid-back guy, he’s a bit monotone, but he knows his stuff. He gave three keys to building traffic to your blog. Create Viral Content Create content that has potential to go viral. Create content that you would want to read ... Read Full Story

Why is it that Facebook gets more annoying every time they make a major update to their layout? Hey, Facebook, here’s a novel idea. You’re a freaking social networking website, so why don’t you ASK your users if they would like or dislike changes you want to make to the site. Biggest Annoying Change Many of you have noticed that some of your friends’ updates have disappeared. This isn’t a glitch in the system, this was intentional by Facebook. If you have mor... Read Full Story

Murphy is a lively and energetic guy. He takes his own advice about being the same person in real life that you are online. His online brand personifies a fun person. I jotted down some notes at IZEA Fest last Friday in Orlando, Florida. I am just now getting around to formulating them into an article. Murphy talked about personal branding, which is very important for anyone trying to make a name for themselves in a particuar niche online. Here were some of the highlights of his keynote... Read Full Story

Let’s face it, Facebook isn’t the most visually appealing website, but I like that, because it doesn’t distract me from reading important updates. But regarding your business Facebook page, making it look good is a big challenge, because Facebook doesn’t allow you to alter the layout or look of it much. So unless you are in love with white space and navy blue, here is a short tutorial for how to add custom html to your Facebook page. Step 1: Type into the search bo... Read Full Story

Are you ready to take the next step with your blog? Do you want to set your blog up for monetizing it in the future? Then, there are a few things you need to change about it before you go forward. Here are my five steps to helping you make your blog look more professional. Get away from Blogger and Wordpress.com. Yes, there are some blogs that do very well and have a ton of traffic and they use Blogger and Wordpress. But, they are the exception to the rule. It’s time to make y... Read Full Story

Amazon Not too shabby for it being 1999. It hasn’t changed much. Apple Apple’s branding has come a long way, that’s for sure! Microsoft Yikes! Google I am thankful they got rid of the ugly teal colors. Yahoo It was ugly then, and it’s ugly now Facebook Good thing they got rid of that creepy face. That dude looks like someone you’d find on myspace “lurking”. Speaking of MySpace . . . MySpace This was only about 4 years ago. Mashable... Read Full Story

Back when the iPhone first came out, one of the big issues with syncing Gmail contacts to the iPhone was that it dumped all of your Gmail contacts into your iPhone, even contacts that Gmail automatically saves such as an email address with no other information. These types of contacts are useful for storing in Gmail, but ugly and irrelevant for storing on your iPhone. The iPhone 2.0 software fixed this issue, but it’s still a little tricky to get these unwanted contacts filtered out. ... Read Full Story

Many small and large companies are getting in on the online marketing that Facebook provides with their business pages. Some are running great pages and others are running horrible pages. Here are a few of my favorite corporate Facebook pages, why I like them, and why they are successful. Dave Ramsey Show Dave Ramsey’s facebook page covering personal finance topics is primarily updated by his radio producer, Blake, but he does a great job at giving listeners of the radio and televi... Read Full Story