Creating a new brand, User Friendly Thinking

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At "Bizzuka Labs," we're creating a new social media marketing brand called User Friendly Thinking. While still in the process of clarifying the brand message, essentially it's a place where "technology and creativity intersect."

We refer to User Friendly Thinking as a "social media" brand, mainly because that's the channel through which it's being deployed.… Read More

Getting ready for BlogWorld and New Media Expo…hope to see you there!

BlogWorld and New Media Expo

To say that I’m excited about BlogWorld and New Media Expo this coming weekend would be an understatement of the grandest proportions. It has nothing to do with the fact that I’m speaking, or that I’m getting to go, along with my wife Amie, to Vegas (which is actually more of a treat for her than me as she used to live there a number of years ago).… Read More

Email and social media, a better fit than you think

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For years I’ve been harping about how I think blogs and email play well together as marketing tools. Now, a B2B Ask the Expert article aptly suggests email has a place within social media as well. Who’d thunk it!

"E-mail marketing could not be better suited to enhance your social media efforts; in fact, it is the key ingredient in launching a successful social media marketing campaign," states the article.… Read More

Are blog comments a dying art?

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I’m a member of the LinkedIn Bloggers group where this question was recently asked, "What do you think? Is commenting (on blogs) a dying art?" The blogger referenced this post by a fellow member.

I responded by suggesting the real issue, and one us
long-time bloggers may have trouble adjusting to, is the fact that
there are now so many other places to comment than a few years ago.… Read More

BlogWorld and New Media Expo, I’m speaking

JoinmeI’m going to be speaking at BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Vegas, September 20-21. My presentation is "Conversations Create Clients: How to turn strangers into friends and friends into enemies customers."

I’m on the bleeding edge track, which is cool.… Read More