The Clear and Continuing Need for Blogger Outreach Specialists at PR Agencies

Ideas

Last week, I received an email pitch from a PR agency looking to feature their client on my blog. The pitch was friendly enough, but had one glaring error. Here’s the pitch: Hi Danny, Thanks to social giant Klout, Badgeville gamification customers can now associate a numeric score with social interactions. Bottom line: companies will [...]


Social Media Marketing Success Doesn’t Have To Be A Hunt For A Four-Leaf Clover

Four Leaf Clover Social Media

This is a guest post by Stacey Acevero. The rise of social media has created all sorts of new opportunities for small business marketers to get the word out, but it has presented challenges too. The days of sending press releases to media outlets with the hopes of being lucky enough to get some coverage [...]


The Powerful Act of Simplicity

Simple

Take a look at the video at the end of this post. It’s a fan-made homage to the band Dashboard Confessional and their song So Long, So Long. There’s nothing special about it. It’s a simple piece of video, made with Windows Movie Maker then put up on Youtube for the creator’s friends to see. And yet… Its simplicity is [...]