Social Media Mistakes: Are You Forgetting Your Fundamentals?

By 91 Comments September 25, 2009

It’s interesting as a marketer to watch how the Internet has changed over the last ten years, especially what has changed for solo entrepreneurs and small business owners.

When I started investigating how to make money online in the late nineties, most strategies were e-commerce focused, or built specifically to take advantage of the dot-com bubble.

You either set… Read the rest of this entry »

The Video Police

By 7 Comments October 27, 2007

A broad range of players in the Internet video industry, minus Google meet today in order to arrange a set of “collaborative principles” for Internet video. They hope this movement will help Internet video to continue to grow, while also protecting copyrighted material.

Headlining the group were CBS, NBC, Fox, Myspace, Disney, and Microsoft.

This conference is being planned because… Read the rest of this entry »

Skype & Myspace Team Up To Bring Voip To Myspace IM Users

By 6 Comments October 19, 2007

Talk about an odd couple. Social networking giant Myspace has teamed up with internet phone provider Skype to bring Voip (voice over internet protocol) service to Myspace IM users. The proposed service update would provide Myspace IM users the ability to enable voice chat.

This will bring voice chat to Myspace in a big way. Skype… Read the rest of this entry »

Skype & Myspace Team Up To Bring Voip To Myspace IM Users

By 6 Comments October 19, 2007

Talk about an odd couple. Social networking giant Myspace has teamed up with internet phone provider Skype to bring Voip (voice over internet protocol) service to Myspace IM users. The proposed service update would provide Myspace IM users the ability to enable voice chat.

This will bring voice chat to Myspace in a big way. Skype… Read the rest of this entry »

Should You Pay To Outsource Your Social Media Marketing?

By 13 Comments December 14, 2006

You may recall I signed up for ReviewMe and began with a review of ReviewMe, taking advantage of their opening promotion to pay bloggers to help spread the word about the new service. My review was more of a discussion of the viability of bloggers being paid for reviews, which you can read here – Should Bloggers Accept… Read the rest of this entry »

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Marketing With MySpace.com

By 44 Comments March 21, 2006

Do you know MySpace? It’s an extremely popular social friendship site frequented by a lot of teens from around the world, in particular the USA. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought MySpace when it purchased it’s parent organisation for a whopping $580 million back in July 2005.

MySpace has a high value because of it’s massive userbase, which in… Read the rest of this entry »