Here is the how-to for automatically importing your website's blog posts onto your Facebook business page. It is not very complicated, but it is not very intuitive either so it made sense to share the instructions in a short video. As I mention in the video it can take a while … [Read more...]
How to Import Your Website Blog into Your Facebook Business Page
The Joy of a WordPress Based Website

One of my newer photography website clients (and a former Flash website owner) gets a lot business from Facebook. This morning he sent me an email with this link to the Facebook Developers Wiki asking if there was a way to automatically include the Facebook Share button on his website … [Read more...]
Anyone using MySpace for marketing these days?
This morning I came across an interesting article in the Financial Times, titled "The Rise and Fall of MySpace" It outlines some of the management issues of bring ... bought by a large media empire while trying to keep up with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. It is an interesting … [Read more...]
Maximize Cyber Monday and all of December – Use Twitter
Last December Dell reported over $1 million in sales for their Dell Outlet through using Twitter. They don't have anything in the way of amazing programming and functions for this, they just announce deals and respond to potential customers. Twitter has been so successful for Dell, … [Read more...]
Facebook Fan Box Widget for Internet Marketing Success for Professionals
Below is the Fan Box Widget for my new Facebook Page. Just exploring options as I am setting up the my business page on Facebook I am undecided as to the effectiveness of this option. On one hand it will drive traffic to your Facebook page on the other hand that may be traffic … [Read more...]
Setting Up The Best Facebook Page For Your Business

Facebook Pages can boost the internet marketing of your small business significantly. They are well indexed by Google and other search enginges, plus Facebook itself is becoming a significant search engine. Not only is it a way for increasing your presence in natural or organic … [Read more...]
Facebook and Friendfeed

This is an excellent Washington Post article by Chadwick Matlin that discusses Facebook's recent acquisition of Friendfeed. And even better, provides insight into the use of Friendfeed and how Facebook may use its advantage, the ability to aggregate peoples activity from across … [Read more...]
The Zen of Twitter and Facebook

Almost everyday I hear the question "What is the difference between Twitter and Facebook and why do I need both?" They are similar in that both are the "water" that can help make the internet marketing of your small business thrive. But they are very different forms. A simple … [Read more...]
Great News for Marketing, Twitter to Show Location

Twitter for target area marketing! Twitter recently announced that it will add a new feature which will let people "see" where tweets are coming from. It hasn't been implemented yet, but will be coming soon. For my clients' marketing purposes I am really looking forward to this … [Read more...]
The Pervasive Power of Today’s Social Media
Earlier I have written about how the desire for social connection helped launch the Internet and world wide web. Today Social Media like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin are pervasive, powerful and respected. More importantly they are very wildly, ubiquitously used. They are the … [Read more...]
“Socializing” with your website visitors works! A Bottom Line Income Increase from using Social Media

The words "conversion" and "conversation" seem very similar to me. Plus I have never experienced converting anyone from a lead to a client without having a conversation. So if you can give your website the ability to engage in "conversation" or a dialog with site visitors you should … [Read more...]
Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact
As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement. Fortunately Google has … [Read more...]
Don’t let SEO become expensive “life support” for a poor website

Fortunately your website is not a relative, friend or family pet ... it is just a business tool. Before spending time and/or money to try to keep it alive with SEO, SMO, SEM and social media, to try to get it to produce results ... consider replacing it with a newer less expensive, … [Read more...]
Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo

Because it shows how important Facebook and Twitter are becoming to presenting your business/services on the internet I meant to get this published a few days ago. Sorry for the delay. Even if you have already noted the article from TechCrunch sharing how Facebook continues to … [Read more...]
Google to add Twitter search engine service
Twitter posts indexed and ranked by search term relevancy. This is pretty strong and will make your micro-blogging activity on Twitter even more valuable. From the " Google Operating System" blog - "Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging … [Read more...]
Brand New Tennessee Wedding and Events Specialists Association (TWESA) Website

What could be better than putting all the content of a non-profit professional wedding association, resource directory, members' information together with advice, tips and info for people planning a wedding or event altogether in a WordPress based web/blogsite? Well for the ease … [Read more...]
“Wedding Professional Success” is changing to “Internet Marketing Success for Professionals”
It is mostly the site name that is changing. The rest of it is taking what I have helped pioneer for wedding professionals websites and internet marketing and sharing it with other small business professionals that also want to increase their internet marketing effectiveness and … [Read more...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
time to mow the lawn # #boycottpb - a vile & violent article. And AOL News should be ashamed for censoring and firing its reporter for sharing the story # i decree ...this week Friday night starts early! beer? # time to take a brief walk in the moonlight and then bed # @Jfisherman … [Read more...]
The internet became popular because it was (as it is now) a social network
At this point in time with so much of our business and income being derived from the internet, it is easy to forget that what made the internet popular was its inherent nature as a social network. In 1993 when I put my first business webpage on the internet I was getting lots … [Read more...]
The web has complexity equal to our brain
I add this post as an extension of the post below. The web is so large and complex and is changing our communication and information pathways so fundamentally that it shows how important it is for your web presence to integrate into the web in as many ways as possible. Below are … [Read more...]



