Author Archives: Carl Brown

A Chat with Scott Stratten About Getting Results from Twitter in 2012

By Carl Brown | Published: January 5, 2012

TweetScott Stratten was cool enough to have a brief conversation with the author today about Getting the most out of Twitter. There are a couple of gems in his simple advice that remind us to keep social interaction in focus on social media. Who Is This Scott Stratten Guy? Scott is on the list of most influential Twitter users in [...]

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5 Things Marketers Can Learn from the Occupy Wall Street Movement

By Carl Brown | Published: November 14, 2011
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TweetBuild A Memorable Brand Occupy wall street works so well because saying it once paints a vivid mental picture and then add the images of the real event, the massive activity on social networks and the consistency of the press coverage and a short period has built a simple protest into one of the first [...]

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Are you a Mobro? What Mustaches Can Teach Us About Leveraging Twitter #Hashtags

By Carl Brown | Published: November 8, 2011
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TweetImagine you sell men’s grooming products. You want to boost sales before the holiday but don’t have a sizeable footprint in the market and want to reach more men who require grooming. Sounds daunting but challenges like this are overcome every single day. The trick is to find a niche community of web users who [...]

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Clueless Marketers, Back to Basics, and Awesome Business Cards.

By Carl Brown | Published: November 2, 2011

TweetHow to Spot a Clueless Marketer The kind folks over at HubSpot have been good enough to tell you how to tell the difference between a marketer that can actually help you and one that,will just drain your budget. http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/27944/How-to-Spot-a-Clueless-Marketer.aspx via @HubSpot Back to Basics: What Is A QR Code And How Does It Work? [...]

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Facebook Sharing, Privacy and Places Update puts Foursquare and Google+ in Facebook’s Sights

By Carl Brown | Published: August 27, 2011

Tweet Over the last week or so since Facebook announced closing down Facebook places for check-ins many have thought Facebook was letting go of the location based check-in feature and foursquare wouldn’t have to worry about the competition. Facebook vs Foursquare Facebook has made it easier, integrated check-ins into the main features of Facebook. All [...]

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How To Stand Out in a Sea of Web Content

By Carl Brown | Published: August 23, 2011

TweetYou’ve heard it said that content is king but with the 30 billion shares per month on Facebook, 200 million tweets per day on twitter and more than 48 hours of video posted to you tube each minute. How will your content for your business actually get noticed in that massive deluge of information? The [...]

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The Single Worst Question in the Web Business: What does a website cost?

By Carl Brown | Published: July 20, 2011

TweetWhat does a website cost this question is one of the hardest questions for web designers/ developers and customers to address. On the custom side we all want to know what kind of budget should i prepare for a project, and how much time, money, and energy will it take on my part to get [...]

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Four Words That Will Whip Your Marketing Into The Best Shape Ever!

By Carl Brown | Published: May 19, 2011

TweetAmerica’s biggest problem in marketing is the exact same problem we have with our waistlines. Too many marketers, marketing departments, corporate entities, and brands have a plain lack of discipline. Being attractive takes work, in physical reality drive thrus, ice cream, and sleeping late are all nice indulgences but being in shape physically takes discipline. [...]

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Lessons from a 5 Year Old Drummer Who Owns Youtube Marketing

By Carl Brown | Published: April 18, 2011

Tweet5 year old Drummer Jonah Rocks has used social media to build a huge fan base, sell T-shirts, gain sponsors and share stage space with some of the biggest names in rock and roll including KISS, Bryan Adams, and more. Check out this video to see this kids amazing talent and read below to see [...]

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Your Calls to Action Suck! How to fix the 5 mistakes that are killing your conversion rate.

By Carl Brown | Published: January 17, 2011

TweetIf Vince Shlomi can sell the  Slapchop and the ShamWow on late night cable with crappy high pressure smamry sales techniques why isn’t your website converting more of the viewers who actually make an effort to see it into customers? It’s because unlike Vince you don’t know how to excite people correctly and ask them [...]

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