Facebook is looking to engage it’s users in leaving more reviews for businesses and places by recently adding review requests into the news feed. I noticed the first one on October 1st, 2015 as they asked me to review Williams Arena where I attended a University of Minnesota basketball game way back in January of …
Right here, right now and all the time. That describes the flow of just about any social media platform. Some move at a millisecond like Twitter or Facebook and others are a little less fast paced, but definitely not standing still. I sit in enough meetings where organizations dream of a viral social media moment …
On Monday this week I saw the message letting me know I had “New Twitter”. Flipped the switch. View larger screenshot I was looking forward to what I had seen and heard from others. I’m a power user of the browser version, mostly because I’m in a browser all day long. I know most prefer …
The new Twitter is coming, hitting us social people over the coming weeks in a gradual rollout. As Twitter puts it, they’re looking to provide a richer web experience through a new design, more content variety and related info. It’s obvious that another piece to this richer experience is the quest to create riches of …
Social media might never be the same with Gink. Live ginking a schmorkel?!?!? Fabulously funny in my opionion, but you might need “earmuffs” toward the end. 🙂 Thanks to Lisa Foote for the find!
“People ask me if we have ‘made money’ with Twitter. Absolutely yes. But not how most business think. We have solidified loyalty and have our name out there, front of mind. Because of that, many social media meetups use our place. Patience! One has to believe that increased loyalty and awareness are a key to …
Matt McGee at Small Business Search Marketing recently featured a HubSpot post on business blogging and it’s impact on traffic. Not a big surprise to me that business’s that blog regularly see as much as 6 times the organic search traffic. Did you catch that, 6 times more? Matt closed his recap this powerful …
Dan Gustafson of The Social Media Weekly show on KRWC AM 1360 in Buffalo, MN interviewed me last week for a segment. Link to the show file We talked about social media in general, my Punch Pizza post on their social media promotion, Facebook’s new design and the Local University seminar I attended last …
Nothing comforts a broken heart like food. Punch Pizza, with seven Twin Cities locations reached out to passionate Vikings fans on Sunday on various social media sites offering a free pizza the next night to help them deal with the devastating NFC Championship loss to the Saints. The result was nearly 10,000 pizzas given away …
Here’s a small, basic, but fun example of building a bit of social media … literally. Employees at Walmart in Baxter, MN built a great display of Pepsi products to support the Minnesota Vikings quest to reach the Super Bowl this Sunday vs. the Saints. Where it get’s social is they then uploaded the photo …
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