As traditional media companies experiment toward a Web business model that would support the traditional high-end journalism they produce, it’s interesting to eyeball two timely examples of companies that think content is a good bet for making money on the Web. One is AOL. The other is Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst. Common threads? [...]

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Twitter recently released a Twitter 101 site aimed at instructing business people on using the tool for marketing. It’s an interesting overview with plenty of basics for those who haven’t had the opportunity to experiment much with Twitter or who still aren’t sure what it is. (And I know plenty of folks out there [...]

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Ernesto on June 30th, 2009

My friend Bob just read the book 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive and after sharing with me some promotional ideas the book sparked for him, passed along a link to this blog post, which sums up the whole fascinating list.  The book contains some persuasion techniques that you’ll recognize instantly – since they’ve probably been [...]

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I spoke to about 60 folks at The Telegraph’s Help 101 event yesterday at Sky Meadow country club (part of the paper’s onlging Hard Times Reasons and Remedies project). My session was Web Marketing 101, and focused on low and no-cost (except time) ways small businesses could approach Web marketing (next we should do one [...]

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Ernesto on April 16th, 2009

Many businesses (including and maybe especially media companies!) are beginning to feel like having a Facebook page is a necessary element of a well-rounded Web marketing strategy. However, it’s not always completely clear what strategy the page should employ and what sort of content it should include to really engage with Facebook users. This post [...]

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Ernesto on February 5th, 2009

Gord Hotchkiss at the Search Insider blog has a great post today on why social media is harder to build workable ad models in than other types of online publishing.  He reasons that it has to do with the expectations someone brings to a social interaction and gives this example: “You’re at a party and [...]

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Ernesto on January 22nd, 2009

I recently sat in on a “Ten Secrets of Social Media Marketing” Webinar put on by Awareness (they build social networking platforms) featuring Paul Gillin, who wrote The New Influencers and Secrets of Social Media Marketing. While I won’t reiterate the meat of it here, the 10 points Gillin made are interesting, fairly intuitive and [...]

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