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A Shout Out to My AOC Peeps

Tinu — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:41:12 +0000

Yes, I realize I used the word “Peeps” but I do believe it is Friday. So, yeah. I have been blessed to participate in the Age of Conversation project again this year. Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton put a call out to authors on the topic of Social Media, and those who make the cut [...]

What Should You Do If You Don’t Get Social Media?

Tinu — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:26:40 +0000

Many of my local business clients say that they just don’t get social media. They tell me they just don’t understand how using social media is going to get them more business. And the answer is simple, really. More effective exposure, faster. To really wrap your head around this, it helps to realize that behind [...]

If I Could Change Email, Twitter or Facebook?

Tinu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:43:32 +0000

I was asked in a survey what I would change about email, Twitter or Facebook. I can’t say whose survey because I agreed not to blog about it. But here’s the answer I gave them. I would love email if I could view it like a forum, see at a glance what to skip and [...]

How You Can Get Them To Do What You Want

Tinu — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:01:59 +0000

Everyone wants to know how I’m able to help my clients get their stories in the Buzz section of StumbleUpon, in Tweetmeme or on the front page of Digg. You can’t sell access or ranking in any of these social media sites,and buying votes is a tactic that doesn’t bear up, strategically. What I am [...]

Why Creating Mini-Viral Success Brings MORE Traffic and Sales Than the Hyper-Viral

Tinu — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:55:45 +0000

It boils down to this. No matter who you are, it seems comparatively easy to get 100 people to do the same thing, to go in the same direction. By comparison, especially if you’re new to online marketing, it seems much more difficult to get 10,000 people to do the same thing. You may find [...]

What is the Mini-Viral Success Formula?

Tinu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:13:40 +0000

You have an existing business, and you want to make, say $10,000 a month with it, with an average $100 sale. About 100 sales. For easy math we’ll say between follow-up and first time visitors, 2 percent of the people who visit your site end up becoming buyers by the end of the month. So [...]

What’s Better Than Being on the Front Page of Digg?

Tinu — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:56:33 +0000

Last week, we were talking about one of the reasons business blogging growth is slowing. Part of the reason growth is slowing is that the instant fame model of blogging is proving to be hollow. You can’t be an instant success blogger. It just doesn’t happen. It may look like this blogger was an overnight [...]

“Why Don’t You Put Your Link In Your Twitter Profile?”

Tinu — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:07:47 +0000

On Twitter the other day, someone asked me why I don’t put my site in my Twitter profile. 1– I don’t want the focus to be on my site from my profile. When people meet me via Twitter, I want them to interact with me before going to my sites. 2– I want the focus [...]

Copying, Sharing and The Hyper-Viral Dream of Social Media

Tinu — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:59:37 +0000

Want to lease space in your client’s minds, by leveraging the time they spend on the web? Then it’s time to wake up. To continue from our last discussion on this topic, the thing to wake up from is this dream of hyper-viral-marketing through the combination of blogs and social media. Most people never will [...]

Has the Hype of the Social Media Mega-Viral Campaign Slayed the Business Blog?

Tinu — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:59:34 +0000

There used to be four distinct reasons that people would ask me to help them with blogging. 1– A person had an idea or a story and wanted to be heard. It isn’t always about money or business — see the political blogger, and the personal blog. 2– A person wanted to make extra money [...]

The Beast is Hungry and Bored: What Happens After Business Blogging?

Tinu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:50:08 +0000

Okay, we were talking about what is going to succeed social media and blogging. And it may be something that already exists. Let’s look into what’s potentially happening for Blogs first. 1– Widespread Business Adoption of Lifestreaming? Possibly. To us it may seem like everyone already “gets” blogging, but I meet people every day who either [...]

The Beast is Hungry and Bored: What’s Happening After Social Media?

Tinu — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:20:12 +0000

So today, I woke up particularly refreshed and jazzed about a workshop I want to give. I asked people what they wanted, and they said a series of hands on lessons that will teach them how to use new media tools more effectively, and teach those of them who don’t know how to use them, [...]