Internet Marketing & Social Media Connections

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I absolutely adore Social Media.  I find it to be a very effective way to network, increase visibility, establish familiarity & expertise, and open up doors of opportunity of various kinds.
With the great opportunities if used properly, some people misuse and abuse their social privileges.  Here are 3 of my Social Media Pet Peeves.
Cold ‘Calling’. [...]

I was reading the Question/Answer area of LinkedIn earlier and I read a discussion about asking people on LinkedIn to connect with you that you don’t know. Someone on there inferred that they got ’slapped on the wrist’ by LI for getting too many “I don’t know this person” buttons being pushed on them by [...]

It’s a waste of time and the ROI is zero. It’s a passing fad and there’s just nothing there.
I’m on Twitter all of the time, literally. It’s always running in Seesmic in my toolbar, I chat and post throughout the day and night.  I check it first thing in the morning and last thing before [...]

I LOVE this new option!
You probably already know this option allows you to automatically have whatever you publish to your Facebook ‘page’ (not profile) to be posted to Twitter for you (*heart, heart, heart*).  But what if you’re posting your blog posts to your Facebook page and you already have something like Twitter Tools installed [...]

I forget about this sometimes too, and I am realizing a lot of people either aren’t aware of the change or forget like I do.
A couple of months ago Twitter removed a function it felt was confusing (I disagree. Hell many people are confused by Twitter period and they just need to learn it.). Before, [...]

Here’s a tip to help people in the Twitterverse know a little about who you are/what you do just from your Tweets - consistently, and not from the words you typed in the Tweet.
In the “real name” field under “settings”, use a descriptive phrase (must be short because you are only allowed 20 characters.  Then [...]

I saw via my search stats that a couple of people visited my blog from the search terms “twitter contest ideas” and I briefly touched on this in one of my previous blog posts but not in a ton of detail so let’s talk about it!
Contests rule.  People love free stuff! I have entered a [...]

Many of you have probably noticed the new Twitter User Interface released a couple of days ago with changes to ‘following’ and ‘followers’.  It’s pretty cool, I love that they are working toward making things better.
It looks like this:

I’ve heard a couple of moans and groans saying that they wish Twitter would have spent that [...]

Corporate Personality Profiler, Michael Spremulli, will tell you!  He profiles potential employees for companies and helps them hire only the top performers, saving them time and money by reducing employee turnover.
I met Michael on Twitter.  He said he liked my Twitter background.  And, of course, because I’m all about relationship building, his compliment drew my [...]