The growing topic on Twitter and the Blogosphere is how Online Marketers are becoming very bitter with the increase competition in Social Media Marketing.  You may have witnessed statements like “Everyone is a Social Media Expert” or “I hate how everyone thinks they are a Social Media Marketer”
Put Away The Social Media Hatorade
There seems to [...]

Support For Iran Election Crisis
These past 2 weeks have been crazy with the crisis over in Iran regarding a revolting Election.  Mashable has written a great timeline of events if you need to get caught up with all the Social Media hoopla regarding the Iran Crisis here.
A movement has been recently made to show support [...]

 
The Blame Game
Over the years, there has been many articles written about how certain Social Networks were causes for certain events.
Below are a few examples:

Mashable writes about how Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted
Gawker explains how a bank intern gets fired because of Facebook.
Another story of getting fired from Facebook is from Switched, a teen [...]

“Surrounding Yourself With Successful People” should be a familiar saying in the business world of successful entrepreneurs.  This goal is built up surrounding yourself with positive energy, wisdom and influences.  You learn from the best who are successful and you mimic or reflect that success when you position yourself in with them.
Whether you are trying to [...]

Google PageRank
December 31st marked the day where Google updated the PageRank numbers for websites and blogs.
A PageRank is a metric measuring tool created by Google to measure reputation and importance content.  The last PageRank update occurred on September 2008 and usually occurs every 2-3 month intervals.  A wiki of PageRank can be found here.
There is [...]

Online Branding
What is an Online Brand? A Brand is the association connected to product, service or person and an Online Brand is taking that same establishment but developing it for the Online world.
Branding is a way to be remembered and have impact upon perception.  It’s also another way to claim separate identities and claim ownership. [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Merritt
Tina is a good friend of mine who is a Real Estate Agent & Internet Marketing Trainer for Long & Foster Realtors, Founder of Wolkia a consulting company for Real Estate Agents embracing Technology, Activerain Blogger, Awesome Mother & a Virginia Tech Hokies fan.
I was honored to have her guest blog on [...]

Comment Vanity
What is comment vanity you may ask? Comment Vanity is the condition in which a Blogger has excessive pride in receiving comments, a constant need to check to see if their post has comments and to make sure that their post has a lot of comments.
Comments are an excellent measure on your reeaders feedback [...]

The NoFollow Comment Rule
Back in 2005, Google implemented the code of [rel="nofollow"] attribute on links found in the comments section of websites and blogs.  The idea behind this is to prevent comment spammers trying to  increase his page rank and exposure to his website.  The  nofollow code has been widely accepted since then and almost all [...]

What is a Twitter SeeSaw
A Twitter SeeSaw is when you have a lop-side count of either Following or Followers.  This affect tends to happen due to these four stages.
 

Twitter Rockstar
Twitter Peoples Champ
Twitter Spam Follow
Twitter Snob

Twitter RockStar (+ Followers)
The most known Twitter SeeSaw reason is the Twitter RockStars or the Twitter Celebrities.  The most notorious Twitter [...]

If your a new Blog owner and wishing to explore ways to find Blog Sponsors you might want to try this neat little marketing approach in finding a sponsor.
 
Before I venture into this marketing tip you might want to brush up on some great sage advice on finding a sponsor for your blog by problogger. [...]