Author Archives: Ben

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Director of Social Media

How to Get 1,000 Twitter Followers in Two Weeks

I find it amusing to go onto Twitter and find companies or people with 10 – 15 followers and see that they are following 150 – 200 people. These companies and people are obviously not doing something right. After time…

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A Short History of Social Media

Social media is not just playing around with Facebook and Twitter, nor did it start there. Social media has been around for quite some time, but it hasn’t always looked the same. Here is a short history of social media…

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Interacting Without Over-Acting

It’s all about interacting with your clients in the social media world. You must show them that you care about their feedback and that you are actually there for them. Many businesses however, have taken this idea of interacting and…

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Two Things that Foursquare Has to Change

For everyone that has a smart phone, you should be using FourSquare. This service allows you to actually check in at locations and get specials and promotions at certain stores. It is a fun and interactive competition between you and…

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Foursquare Business Model

You might have heard the new social media buzzword that’s going around called Foursquare, but have you taken the time to figure out how great it would be for your business to have a real Foursquare Business Model? Foursquare is…

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Top 5 Facebook Business Pages

It seems like almost every company imaginable has some presence on Facebook. The problem with most of these businesses is that they may have a Facebook Business Page, but they do nothing with that page. Facebook is a great social…

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The Superheroes of Social Media – #1 Superman

Even though there are terrible villains in the SEO world, we are lucky enough to have the superheroes of social media. Our first highlighted superhero is that of superman, the leader of social media superhero team. Superman in the social…

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Smartphones are Changing the Face of Social Media

It all started with the Blackberry. A cool phone that let you browse the internet, type on a full keyboard, and get push emails. Phones have since developed into much more than just browsing the internet at slow speeds. Today…

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How a blog could help you rank #1 on Google

In the SEO world the quote, “content is king” is often thrown around. For most companies they understand that their site needs to be a source of information about a particular subject. One thing however, that some companies do not…

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FourSquare

When I tell people that I do social media for clients, they usually stare at me and say, “so…you’re on Facebook and Twitter all day then?”. After a couple of minutes I usually have most people convinced that Facebook and…

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