I tried to grok the whole Foursquare thing during SXSW. It doesn’t help that I’m still using mobile tech vintage 2006, i.e., SMS only (hence, no Gowalla). I see potential, but it still seems more game-y than practical at this point. This tweet this morning from Shelly Brisbin (@shelly) summed it up nicely for...
An impromptu conversation at the pre-SXSW #BATHH (Big Ass Twitter Happy Hour) with Alex Barrera (@abarrera) and Fernando Labastida (@flabastida), captured by Rafael Marquez (@rafaelmarquez), in which we discuss why social media accelerates trust-building and how that has impacted not only virtual relationships, but face-to-face as well.
I won’t quote you a zillion studies – let’s just accept it as fact that for most businesses, referrals are both the least expensive and most effective source of new business. Referrals are also the best source of leads for job seekers and employers. There are customers and jobs and employees out there –...
For the past few years, I’ve had a press pass to SXSW Interactive. This year, I don’t. I considered shelling out the $400-$500 for a badge, but then I thought about how I had spent my most productive time the past few years, and it was mostly hanging out in the hallways, going to...
It’s marketing like this that gives the search engine optimization business a bad name. I got this email today regarding this site: Subject: Get Your Website on the 1st Page of Google, Yahoo and MSN Dear Website Owner, How are you ? i hope that everything is fine over there, The reason of my...
My mother was a piano bar musician. I grew up in a constant environment of music. On road trips, we actually song show tunes. We played word games…with song lyrics. My mother and I would go back and forth thinking of all the songs we could with, say, the word “flower” in it. For...
