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What You Can Learn from Twitter's Success

Rohit Bhargava from the Influential Marketing Blog just posted a very insightful article about how we entrepreneurs can learn from Twitter, 7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Twitter’s Success —...

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Why Social Media Marketing Makes Brands Nervous

Tom Smith wrote a smashing article that really gets why big brands are having such a big problem with social media.  The article is over at Mashable and deserves a read because I am only excerpting the...

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Social Media Marketing Spooks Brands

Tom Smith wrote a smashing article that really gets why big brands are having such a big problem with social media.  The article is over at Mashable and deserves a read because I am only excerpting the...

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De Beers’ False Scarcity is a Woman’s Best Friend

Even though I know that diamonds are common and that the value of diamonds is based on false-scarcity and multi-billion-dollar global marketing campaigns, I still want to buy my future wife a big-ass...

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The contorversy about Yelp

Jonathan Trenn popped this insightful article about Yelp over on Marketing Conversation, The contorversy about Yelp (and be sure to check out David Gelles’ article on a similar topic over at the...

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I Love Dude Food But Come On — Good Lord!

Via my friend Jon Eick from So Good Blog via Buzzfeed via No-Name247.

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An Interview with Martin Oetting of Germany's trnd

Cross-posted on SocialMedia.biz — As  part of my exploration of branding and communication around the world, I am starting a series of interviews with as many European and world-wide movers-and-shakers...

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Whiter than Wonderbread and Puffy Clouds

One thing that I am not is touchy about the fact that I love what I love. And I love Moleskine notebooks.  And I love manual typewriters, especially the Hermes 3000, and I love quite a lot of other...

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Social Media Promotes Your Business

Image by luc legay via Flickr You are not too late to enjoy the benefits of social media — you will never be too late — because the spoils in social media marketing go to the company that can maintain...

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Birthday Picnic in Washington

My friends organized a birthday picnic for me at Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill Posted via email from Chris Abraham

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Erika Mauer Was My Neighbor in Berlin

Berlin is surely the coolest city on earth. Erika La Tour Eiffel (AKA Erika Mauer) was my next-door neighbor for a while in Berlin.  She is an Objectum Sexual and here is her story! (You can watch all...

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Tom Raftery Calls Me a Facebook Spammer

Tom Raftery is a gentleman.  He popped me an email to let me know that he defriended me on Facebook and wrote a blog post about me, Funny FaceBook spam! That’s what I call professional courtesy!...

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How To Invite All Of Your Friends On Facebook To A Facebook Page, Event, Or...

If you’re like me you have a lot of Facebook friends, and sometimes you’d like to invite all of them to an event, page, or group. Normally this could take hours of mind numbing and wrist damaging...

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Gifts For Your Facebook Friends

The holidays are here it’s the time of the year that everyone seems to be generous. It is also the time of the year that you will think your heart out because you don’t know what to give to someone you...

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How Many of Your Social Media Circle of Friends are Real?

Have you ever tried to sort out your real friends from your mere Facebook friends? You may have a lot of followers and many people you follow on Twitter, but do you know them all? I would guess not. I...

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Your followers care about you, but do you care?

Over the course of a couple days, my Klout score went from 65 to 67 because my mother died. Not because I had some sort of amazing Klout-gaming strategy but because I have been honestly and openly...

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What You Can Learn from Twitter’s Success

Rohit Bhargava from the Influential Marketing Blog just posted a very insightful article about how we entrepreneurs can learn from Twitter, 7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Twitter’s Success —...

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The State of Buzz (and Word of Mouth) in 2009

I spent three years working at New Media Strategies, from 2003-2006, doing buzz marketing and have spent from 2007-2009 doing some semblance of word-of-mouth and public relations. As a result, I am...

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Best Practices of Social Media Marketing

Here’s a smashing list from Lee Odden over on Online Marketing Blog, Best and Worst Practices Social Media Marketing: Start with a plan, not tactics.  Research and build a Social Media Roadmap...

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BL Ochman Debunks Six Social Media Myths Over at Business Week

BL and I adore eachother so I was very excited to receive an email from her last night with a link to her latest article on Business Week, Using social media to market your business is a good idea....

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Successful SNS’s Will Be Modeled on the College Campus

The future of Social Network Services (SNS) can be discovered on High School and College campuses. I believe that topic-specific “vertical” SNS’s are very important, but I also think that the model...

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My Ode to Australian Boots: Rossi Boots

If you have ever met me, there’s a chance you might have wondered what the hell I am wearing on my big feet.  Well, since I discovered Blundstone boots in Sydney, Australia, while backpacking around...

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Love’s Power Player is Miss Abigail Jones

Check out this new article on Forbes by my lovely friend (and author and journalist), Abigail Jones, Love’s Power Players:From matchmakers to wedding dresses (and every step in between), the business...

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Heal Your Home Space With a Spring Cleansing

My girlfriend circa 1998-2001 was a little witchy.  No, witchy is not a placeholder for a word that might insult women — she was and is lovely — she was a little bit of a witch, including Tarot and all...

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Michael Signer for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

My friend Mike Signer is running for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and has started his campaign. Please be sure to support this fine gentleman in his campaign — please check out Mike Signer’s web...

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The SEO Benefits of Blogger Outreach and Earned Media

After I wrote The Powerful SEO Benefits of Blogger PR Outreach, I looked around Google a little bit under the keywords “blogger outreach” and on the first page I discovered my new friend and partner,...

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The SEO Benefits of Blogger Outreach and Earned Online Media

After I wrote The Powerful SEO Benefits of Blogger PR Outreach, I looked around Google a little bit under the keywords “blogger outreach” and on the first page I discovered my new friend and partner,...

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Social Networking Pioneers Launch Audience Machine To Help Online Brands...

My friend Todd Tweedy popped me the following press release that I would love to repeat for him, back-scratching and all.  Don’t judge me!  For more information, check out the Audience Machine...

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Eating Frozen Yogurt on the Steps

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Chris Abraham Hits LA! Cross-Country Road Trip Makes a Pit Stop in Venice!

[Guest post by Stevie Wilson of the LA Story blog] If you aren’t familiar with me, this is Stevie Wilson and I post very intermittant posts here and on Marketing Conversation.com . Chris Abraham has...

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