Category Archives: Tom’s Ramblings
New Year New Goals? Here’s 10 Tips to Help.
Each year we reflect and plan. We set new goals and strive to achieve them. Here’s 10 tips to help you hit your targets. 1. For you to be able to achieve your goals, first off you must have a clear sense of what your goals are. To attain them, they should be well-defined,…
Success Seminar with Brian Buffini
I’m here at the “Success Seminar” with Brian Buffini. He started with three big trends in the industry. Forgive the short quick sentences, I’m blogging as he talks. 1. Immigration 2. Longevity 3. Echo Boomers He feels the Echo Boomers are the biggest trend, especially given the fact they are just entering the market now.…
New Studies Show Facebook Benefits to Local Business
Some new studies came out over the last little while talking about the benefits of using Facebook, how it effects customer loyalty and the truthfulness of online profiles. I first found the studies at the Social Media Examiner, a great site and I recommend you drop by and check it out. The first study put…
A story about a Squirrel, why we need help and never giving up.
In life we run across things that are difficult. Sometimes they seem impossible. But with a little help, and a never give up attitude you can get where you want. At least that’s what the Squirrel proves.
Admob Says People Love Iphone, I say but what about the Blackberry?
Image via Wikipedia So I’m surfing the web and run across the recent report: Admob Mobile Metrics Which tells us that 91% of Iphone users would recommend the device to others. They also talk about the PalmPre(WebOS) and Android but for some reason they leave out Blackberry(RIM)? Now I’m not saying Blackberries are the be…
50% of Twitter Users Use English.
Well another way of saying that is 50% of tweets are not in english. I was reading Techcrunch and few stats popped out. 1. Twitter now processes 50,000,000, yes 50 MILLION tweets per day. 2. 50% are not in english, more or less. So if we do some quick math, let me see here, carry…
If the listing is important, it will find me?
Folks, there’s a change a com’in! I smell it on the on the wind and it’s not last nights fish. It’s a change in how people search and find information. Sure people are still using Google, Bing and Yahoo to find stuff, but that’s starting to change. People are letting the news find them. I…
Dan Zarrella and Self Reference
On Dan Zarrella’s blog today we were looking at a new post talking about self reference and followers. Basically, what you see in the chart below and the link to his post is when people are on twitter or on any other social network the way to gain more followers is to talk less about…
How Online Video Is Discovered And Other Musings.
Techcrunch had a great article today on Online Video Discovery. To some up, video is huge, we knew that. But 45% of video is direct traffic or searched for. Which means the person knew what they wanted. BUT, 55% is found randomly, completely by accident. That’s a huge realization, because it means that you need…
66% Of Surveyed Companies Plan Budget Shift To Social Media
So Alterian released the seventh annual, yes I said SEVENTH, Social Media Marketing Survey. It comes as no surprise that more companies are shifting the budget to Search and Social Media, but it’s always fun to look at the numbers and then give my ever so observant opinion about what I think they mean. Yes…
