Building an Audience with Commenting Communities: Smart, or Sleazy?

Comment strategies

This is a guest post by Danny Iny. Have you heard of comment trading communities? It’s a new fad that seems to be sweeping the blogosphere (or at least a few corners of it). Basically, the idea is that a bunch of people get together and agree to comment on all of each others’ posts.… [Continue Reading]

If Twitter Went Back to the Drawing Board

Twitter wishlist

This is a guest post from Jamie Fairbairn. The web is constantly evolving. On July 15th 2006 Twitter was officially launched and has since gone on to change the way many of us interact online. As Twitter approaches its 5th Birthday I thought it would be good to take a look at what it might… [Continue Reading]

The Zen of Social Media

zen of social media

This is a guest post by Stuart Mills. “Social media is a great way to tell the world what you’re thinking before you’ve had a chance to think about it.” – Chris Pirillo Have you ever heard of that old saying, “You can take the ‘x’ out of the ‘y’, but you can’t take the… [Continue Reading]

Yelp Doesn’t Understand Your Small Business

Yelp bad for business

This is a guest post from Joe Hackman. I received an email this week from Yelp reminding me that they do not understand my business. The first thing in bold red header images I read was: What Yelp continues to fail to understand is that many small businesses and self-employed professionals don’t have a massive… [Continue Reading]

There’s More To Competence Than Training

Leon Noone

This is a guest post by Leon Noone. Leon helps managers in small-to-medium business to improve on-job staff performance. His ideas are too unconventional for some managers. Find out for yourself at Leon’s blog, Secrets of Managing Employee Performance for Better Business Results, where you’ll be able to receive a free copy of his Special… [Continue Reading]

Around the Web

Around the web with Danny Brown

For someone who’s written about guest posting a few times, as well as recommended the benefits of it to clients when talking about Blog 101, I haven’t really done a lot of guest posting myself. I’ve had brilliant guest authors here, but not really written too many myself. Maybe I should revisit my own post…… [Continue Reading]

Social Media Roadmaps

Social media strategist Kapil Apshankar

This is a guest post by Kapil Apshankar, an innovative social media strategist. He writes about tips, tricks and techniques that help his readers score higher in social media at Social Media Notebook. Kapil also maintains a personal blog, Spring Rainbow, which captures his life away from social media. He can be reached via Twitter… [Continue Reading]

Austria and Social Media – A Digital Native’s Perspective

Antonia Harler

This is a guest post by Antonia Harler, an Austrian and soon-to-be graduate who wrote her diploma thesis about Twitter as a tool for Relationship Marketing. She’s awesomely quirky as well as open-minded and she’s also kind of a big deal . For more information check out her blog Social Glitz or follow her on… [Continue Reading]

Geek Group Hug – A Social Media Success Story by Chris Favero

Chris Favero of GeekTechLive

This is a first on here – a guest blog by podcast. Quite why I’ve never had more podcasts on here escapes me at the minute – but it’s certainly something I intend to improve upon in the coming weeks and months, along with more video posts as well. The podcast itself is from Chris… [Continue Reading]

Hungover Radio – A Social Media Success Story by Marcus Edwardes

Marcus Edwardes of Hungover Radio

January 16th  2010, I’m at a party with a few friends. We were bragging to each other about the usual things. Girls, sport, gadgets, movies. I make a remark that would change my life. “I’m gonna launch my own Radio Show!” The idea has been swirling around in my head for years but I’ve never… [Continue Reading]