Is Search Bowing Down To Social?

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Rand Fisking of SEOmoz recently gave a presentation that included a section of how they have documented a correlation between Facebook “likes” of a page to its ranking within the search results. His presentation received a bunch of chatter and last week he wrote it up at the SEOmoz blog to illustrate that correlation. The [...]

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Has The Pit lost its social media mojo?

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I once used The Pit as a case study of how to do social media right. What happens when the driving force behind it’s social media moves on?

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Why Boston Rob Won Survivor: Redemption Island

Boston Rob on Survivor: Redemption Island

Boston Rob wins Survivor by playing the perfect social game. It should be used as a learning series for anyone trying to figure out the social media landscape.

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The New Reality for Small Business Owners

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The world has changed for business owners that have to interact with real people all day long. Here is a cautionary tale of a cupcake shop.

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Did Howard Stern Gave Birth To Facebook

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Was Howard Stern (aka the king of all media) also the father of social media?

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An Open Letter to Argyle Social

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Most of the social media ROI tools only focus on one side of the equation, here’s my argument about the other end of the equation.

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The Calculus of Social Media Theory

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Will there be a time when we can define social media influence?

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Why I’m Joining Media Two Interactive

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I accepted a position as the Director of User Experience at Media Two Interactive in downtown Raleigh.

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Why I Shop at Kerr Drug

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When I moved down from Massachusetts in 2003, I had to adjust to living in a new environment where many things were different. Things that were familiar were easy for me to stick with. The few Dunkin’ Donuts and CVS were the two most familiar stores that were here. Now it’s seven years later and I love [...]

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Why you need to build your business one customer at a time

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There’s only one way to build a business, and it’s one customer at a time. It happens to also be the most sustainable way.

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Can you really build your business one customer at a time?

Come on, we all know that you hear stuff like, “value every customer”, “a single customer can have an impact beyond that single sale” or “1,000 true fans can sustain you”. But in the real world that’s bullshit right? You want to be the one to tell your boss that you spent the last 8 [...]

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