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You’re only renting in social media
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What you’re learning by “renting” your pages on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress.com, LinkedIn, and Google+, is portable, which is to say that everything you’re doing, experiencing, and learning will improve your ability to engage and market online into the future. So, that’s good. The downside is that all good things come to an end. The recent Facebook IPO backfire reminds us that even Facebook, with its 800 million active users worldwide, can still fall, as did MySpace and Friendster before it. Read the remainder of this entry »
This Post Is NOT About Facebook’s IPO (Sorta)
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No matter how deep you are into your Friday, it is likely that you have been inundated with the Facebook IPO watch. It’s that bizarre event where people who do not have billions of dollars “oooooo and ahhhhhh” over people who are making billions of dollars. I, for one, am happy that they are making their money. They earned it on some level or another and that’s fine by me. It doesn’t mean I have to spend every second reading about it or crowing over it, though. Read the remainder of this entry »
Internet Industry Diversions Slow the Pace of Your Progress
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If you try to keep up with the Internet and social media marketing industry throughout the week, you already know that there is too much information for people to ingest let alone digest (that is unless you don’t have a job or a family or hobbies or a life in general). People like to talk about signal to noise ratios which sounds really cool but if you would like to hear it in layman’s terms I’ll spell it out for you. Most of what passes as news these days is C-R-A-P. I should know, I add to it as the managing editor of Marketing Pilgrim. I try not to, but every day I get caught up in passing things along to my readers that are really a distraction and don’t do anything to help them understand Internet and social media marketing better or, even more importantly, apply it to their business. Guilty as charged but I am trying to make it better. Read the remainder of this entry »
