Recently I have had the pleasure of getting to know Chuck Hester, director of corporate communications with iContact. Many of you may already know him or may even be LinkedIn to him via the popular professional networking site LinkedIn. Chuck has become a LinkedIn “guru” of sorts. His use of the site and its capabilities […]

Well, it has been over a week since my last post and I can tell you that it does make a difference. For me, though, it’s not that I am refreshed and rested and ready to conquer the world. In fact, for me it’s quite the opposite.
Over the past week and a half I have […]

I have blogged in the past about my preference for LinkedIn as a professional social networking avenue. That hasn’t changed at all. In fact, I am realizing right now how little I actually use it myself and now I am holding off the urge to go right to LinkedIn to just say I did. You […]

I am putting this post up during a presentation I am making to a group of aspiring bloggers from Morrisville, NC through its Chamber of Commerce. Morrisville sits directly adjacent to the Research Triangle Park (RTP) outside of Raleigh and has long been recognized as a center of technical advancement. It’s a good place to […]

Well, I would have to say that this has been an interesting week. Interesting weeks can be fun or they can be tedious or they can be a combination of the two. This has been a very even mix. As a small business owner myself I encounter a lot of the same situations that you […]

After watching all the responses to the post I made on Marketing Pilgrim last Friday with Jerry Yang and the Google Kings of the World showing what it’s like to be on opposite side of the search engine coin, I really started to wonder what might be getting in the way over at Yahoo!.  I […]

Being pretty new to the whole blogging thing, I will say that I have been fortunate. I am now a regular contributor on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim which carries some serious clout in internet marketing circles. Thank you, Andy, for allowing me to come on board. I also may have an opportunity to work with […]

Here I go. I am about to become another voice in the melee that we call social networking. If I scream out in the crowded internet public square where everyone else is screaming about social networking will I be heard? Probably not. Regardless, I am still going to give my opinion on the cleanest and […]

In an excellent article at Business Week (yes, that can still happen) Sarah Lacy writes about the trail that all of our social media habits leaves. Of course, it seems logical and makes great sense when you step back but when you are in it a lot of folks forget who see what they are […]