Paying Homage to Business Blog Consulting and Social Media Consulting’s Early Days

Business blog consulting and social media consulting

I was googling the phrase “social media consultant” tonight and was shocked to find that a blog post I wrote nearly five years ago – Just What is a Social Media Consultant Anyway? – still returns reasonably well in SERPs. It shows was showing up on the 2nd page of returns for the above keyword.… Read More

Paul Chaney, the Social Media Handyman

Paul Chaney, Internet marketing consultant, speaker, trainer and author

Paul Chaney, known to many as “The Social Media Handyman,” is an Internet marketing consultant, popular speaker, trainer and author of The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media, published by Wiley.

Paul provides Internet marketing and social media consulting services to small and medium businesses and non-profit organizations.… Read More

It’s time for a sponsored conversations summit

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After waging a small war on pay-per-post for years, I’ve come to the conclusion that sponsored conversations, as they’re now being called, is a blogging business model that is not going away.

Forrester seems to think so anyway, having just completed a report on the topic, reaching the conclusion that “this practice will take its place alongside public relations and advertising activities in the blogosphere.” That’s a pretty bold assertion, don’t you think?… Read More

Leili McKinley, a blogger you should be reading

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If you are at all interested in social media marketing, especially as it relates to branding, there is a blogger you should be reading, Leili McKinley.

I found out about Leili via a comment she left in response to my post, Does social media have to be either marketing or pr?Read More

Five years at business blogging and counting

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Yesterday, I read that December marks five years that Top Rank Marketing's Lee Odden has been at the business of blogging. (Congrats Lee!)

That post jogged my memory and caused me to realize that this month marks my fifth year as well.… Read More