Epic Digital Marketing

04/09/2010

you should treat social media sites like any other tool that you utilize to operate your business.Have a clear goal for what you want that tool to accomplish.
Identify the best method for using that tool to accomplish your goal.
Monitor the rate success of utilizing the tool.

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04/09/2010

The percentage of Americans age 12 and older who have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites has reached almost half (48 percent) of the population in 2010 – double the level from two years ago

Use of Social Media Explodes - Almost Half of Americans Have Profiles Says New Arbitron/Edison Research Study. Study Also Reveals Younger Consumers Eager to Adopt Mobile Digital Radio.

03/22/2010

What exactly are some ways to achieve success with social media?Diversify your social media. Users have different preferences and you don’t want to lose out on conversions by not appearing on a widely used platform.
With that said, don’t ONLY use social media and neglect an actual web presence. A stable website, updated regularly, should always be available. Don’t rely only on Twitter, Facebook etc.

Traditional marketing will never go away- it has a habit of sticking around. I still get random surveys through the mail, physical coupons as well as those oh

03/22/2010

One of my mentors, Mari Smith, shares info on this cool new app!

I was recently approached by the team at Vpype to test out their brand new Facebook app that allows you to stream LIVE video directly from your Facebook

02/26/2010

Here's a great article on how to maximize your facebook fan page's effectiveness and engage your fans:

How to incite comments on your Facebook Fan Page to build and engage a strong social media community

02/26/2010

How to tag--when you type an '@' symbol in the publisher (the place where you post updates/content), a drop down menu loads and when you begin typing the name of the friend or fan page (or group or event), you'll be able to select it from the menu and it populates and turns blue. When you click the Share button, that entire post automatically appears on the friend/fan page wall(s) you tagged.

How to incite comments on your Facebook Fan Page to build and engage a strong social media community

02/06/2010

Facebook now has 400 million users! Click through for a video of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO announcing new info...

Earlier this evening, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally announced the launch of six new products at the company’s headquarters, as Facebook also celebrated its 6th birthday. To watch Zuckerberg ...

02/05/2010

what do you think of the new facebook home page? Do you like it?

01/21/2010

How you choose to set your Privacy Settings depends largely on who you are and how you want others to know you. For many professionals, or aspiring ones, keeping private thoughts and moments of bad judgment out of the claws of the Internets’ cache is extremely important. Whereas for others, either meeting people or getting your name out to as many people as possible is more important than privacy.

Facebook’s new,more public privacy settings are here to stay. And there are a lot of details that you should make sure you’re clear about. Otherwise, you may be exposing (or not exposing) the information you intend to.

01/21/2010

Facebook says it is changing the maximum size of profiles pictures to 180 x 540 (down from 200 x 600) “in the next few weeks.”

Facebook’s Platform team has just posted a note about a couple of potentially breaking upcoming changes to the way Facebook handles user photos and profile pictures. Here’s the upshot for developers:

01/19/2010

Retweet on Facebook? check it out. It only works for links, not status updates, but still cool...

Facebook rolled out a “via” feature that lets you repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution.

01/16/2010

Mari Smith’s 7-step five-minutes a day Facebook visibility strategy. Facebook can be extremely time-consuming if you keep going down tons of rabbit holes and before you know it hours have passed by. Use this simple 5-minute strategy to keep your presence prominent without draining all your time.

whyfacebook.com ► Mari Smith’s 7-step five-minutes a day Facebook visibility strategy. Facebook can be extremely time-consuming if you keep going down tons of rabbit holes and before you know it hours have passed by. ...