I get very annoyed with people who ignore the unspoken rules of Twitter.  They aren’t hard…in fact, if anyone has been online for any length of time, s/he should know a few basic rules.  For example, you don’t type in ALL CAPS ALL OF THE TIME because that makes me shrivel up into my virtual [...]

The Beginner’s Mini-Guide for Starting a Successful Online Business: First, you need to evaluate your personality type and make sure you have the chops to self-police, self-motivate and self-discipline.

For now, I agree with the pros like SEO Expert Steve Wiideman, who says, “In regards to Bing, I’m in agreement with some of the Rockstars here at smx that the change does create some skepticism

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of getting Twitter auto-direct messages claiming that I can “get 10,000 followers in 90 days.” That’s BULL! … Here’s my growing list of the Biggest Twitter Spammer – Scammers:

In the wild west of Social media marketing, it seems marketers and online retailers are both scratching their heads asking, “How do we measure our social media marketing efforts?” Internet Retailer Magazine recently interviewed me for an upcoming article in the May 2009 issue, asking me how to monetize Twitter (…for more on that topic, stay tuned in May for my forthcoming eBook, “Banking on Twitter.” If you subscribe to my blog, you’ll receive a FREE copy worth $49.99). My response to Internet Retailer involved explaining that in order to monetize any marketing effort, marketers first need to know how to measure it.

A good friend of mine is a talented artist and photographer who “hates all that networking mumbo-jumbo.”  She’s a purist in the purest sense of the word:  “Art for art’s sake”and all that .  Sadly, however, this doesn’t pay the bills.  At least, not right away, that is. Likewise, one of my followers on Twitter [...]