And by 'egg,' I mean 'blog.' Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston recently wrote a great article about weeding out the 'carpetbagger' social media experts. In their list of 25 things to watch out for, I…
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Really? You still aren't convinced that Twitter is an incredible tool for business growth? As of today, Twitter sends me 31% of my traffic. 31%. That's darn near one third. Yesterday, it was 28%...it's a…
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I am the little sister to two big brothers...who kind of tortured me (okay, in equal parts to how much I tortured them) while we were growing up. Teasing was their weapon of choice -…
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A friend of mine just told me about this wildly useful exercise she did in couples therapy: They sat facing each other and closed their eyes (which signified 'me' time). Whenever each of them felt…
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Trees Instead, founded and run by Daniel Diaz (Civil Engineer) & Pablo G. Martinez (business grad), is a fantastic business that's doing good in the world, one tree at a time, by planting trees as…
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I went to high school with one of my brothers, Steve, who is just two years older than me. Here's a classic scenario from those good old days at Clayton High: I'm standing at my…
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Decidedly no. Twitter is not a chatroom. You all know that I'm a huge fan of Twitter (I talk about it enough, right?) So, today, I'm going to let some of my Twitter-colleagues tell you…
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When I’m working with a client to start a blog and/or use social media to grow their business, I’m always asked for the ROI (return on investment) because most people love the security of ‘if…
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I met a new person yesterday. She asked me what I did for a living, and swear to god, she got really excited by my answer. No, I didn't lie and say that I'm a…
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I gave a workshop this weekend on blogging and social media, and this inevitable question was asked: 'how does social media work?' It's a great question. I only wish it had been asked today instead…
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