There is no hotter area of the online advertising market than video. As the recent NewFronts underscored, major media companies and startups alike are diving headlong into producing original online video in pursuit of ad dollars. Technology companies are introducing a dizzying array of new …

Online shopping continues to evolve and the new trend for businesses is to use social networking to engage customers and encourage them to share favorite products with each other. Facebook offers one such avenue, but there are others cropping up as well. OpenSky recently launched its marketplace, which gives small merchants their own stores on [...]

There are two great NYC events coming up on May 14th, both designed to help your small businesses GROW: Business Building Blocks: Finance & Marketing Clinic  and Power Personal Branding & Networking Here are the details and registration information. . Business Building Blocks: Finance & Marketing Clinic   When: Tuesday – May 14, 2013 from [...]

While UK teens lead in internet and smartphone use, their penetration rate on social networking sites is low compared with those between 18- to 34-years-old. However, video viewing gets more attention from this cohort.

Location is probably one of the most limiting factors to collaboration. Perhaps in the turn of the 21st century, the small business office was a very sacred place, but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. Requiring everyone to be in the same room to collaborate within the same network is a thing of [...]

This was recorded LIVE in Las Vegas at the eCommerce Summit 2010 Every day, thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs miss out on millions of dollars in revenue simply because they don’t know how to utilize the Internet for marketing and selling. This is NOT your same old ABC stuff, these are actual eCommerce practices [...]

Phoenix-based Addoway, a free social marketplace that launched its beta site 3 months ago, is announcing today the launch of its new platform that helps users buy and sell with friends in their social circles. Online shoppers can use Addoway to find new and used products sold by thousands of independent online merchants and individuals. [...]

Remember the relics of the past, your grandfather’s generation of how they used to network? Picture in your mind those bound business card books – remember these? They were small, leather bound with clear sleeves to hold business cards. Some of them were tabbed or alphabetical. That relic was replaced by saving business contacts in [...]

This all started from a couple of crazy late-night Tweets after being fed up with the "hype" And it ended up a Social Marketing Video LinkedTube Please Rate My Video with 5-Stars DSR’s

Back in the day I saw a video by my boy Gary Vaynerchuk (author of Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion). I love to listen and watch him, he was one of the first to usher me into the power of social marketing. Back in the day, Gary [...]

In today’s world there is a "hyper-network" taking place. We are all hyper networking thanks to social services, both on personal and business levels. By network I mean people who know you, like you and trust you. The new issue with this hyper networking is that suddenly people are always trying to "keep track" of [...]

The theory created by the author (John of ColderICE.com) that we have a new term of “Thinship” to describe social relationships. A more defining term for the existence of these types of relationships in social networks. My thought on a new term of “thinships” Technorati Tags: social,networking,friendship,thinship,theory,making friends,twitter,facebook,linkedin

It is no secret that I am a Twitter nut! I love it for many reasons and it just works for me, literally! I am unashamedly a “bottom line’ person by design and I don’t like to spend time on fruitless ventures, even casually. So I got a saying that “if it don’t make dollars, [...]

Here is a neat concept. These guys are going to follow Barack Obama’s social network strategy and show you how it can help small business. A few weeks back David Bullock and Brent Leary  had a conversation/webinar highlighting some of the reasons they felt small business people would benefit from taking a closer look at [...]