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Social Media Strategies from IBM

Kurt Scholle — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:51:02 +0000

Social Media Insights from IBM Ed Brill, who heads up Social Media at IBM was on the Noon Business Hour at WBBM Radio yesterday. What he said bears repeating and is often the point that is hardest for most people to understand. The benefit of social media is the ENGAGEMENT. Don’t broadcast. Engage your customers, [...]

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5 Questions with Lynn Terry

Kurt Scholle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:08:45 +0000

5 Questions with Lynn Terry I have a world of respect for Lynn Terry as a person and marketer and if you investigate, you’ll find she has a huge group of fans. It’s easy to know why, she gives alot of her time, she knows what she talks about and she is a very successful [...]

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Where Do You Get Online Leads?

Kurt Scholle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:13:21 +0000

Notes gleaned from the Twitter feed at Interactive Local Media West. Yesterday they discussed leads at the #ILMWest Conference. It’s a top subject of sales people, marketers, SMB owners and business development pros. Where do you get leads? Where do you get online leads? What is a lead? What makes a good lead? The panelists [...]

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My Top 5 Recent Posts: Social Media Privacy, Small Business and Hotel Marketing

Kurt Scholle — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:47:51 +0000

Top 5 Blog Posts Here are the best of my social media and Internet marketing blog posts recently. Without question, the most popular post in the past couple of months concerned social media privacy. Specifically, LinkedIn and a button you may want to un-check. I got quite a few trackbacks and comments. Next was a [...]

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The Case for Mobile Web Development is Compelling

Kurt Scholle — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:15:51 +0000

I was watching CNBC this week when they interviewed Marissa Mayer, who’s in charge of Google’s consumer products including mobile. She talked about the number of mobile search queries surpassing the number of search queries for the first time on Christmas Day and New Years Eve last year. In April of this year it began [...]

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Top Hotel Marketing Strategies

Kurt Scholle — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:33:17 +0000

Survey reveals Top Hotel Marketing Strategies The 5th Annual Benchmark Survey on Digital Hotel Marketing, Budget Planning and Best Practices has been completed by Hospitality eBusiness Strategies and Tisch Center for Hospitality Studies at New York University. Key findings include: Revenues: Hoteliers say that 25.6% of their business comes from their hotel website and [...]

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5 WordPress Tips from Becky Davis

Kurt Scholle — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:48:56 +0000

5 Questions for Becky Davis: 5 WordPress Tips – How to Design a WordPress Website Q1) WordPress powers 15% of the World Wide Web. Why is WordPress so popular and why do you recommend using a WordPress platform? A1) As a designer/developer, WP makes a lot of things in my life faster and simpler and [...]

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LinkedIn Privacy Issue: A Button You May Want to Uncheck

Kurt Scholle — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:13:42 +0000

LinkedIn is taking cues from Facebook with a new privacy concern. They now have a default setting that allows them to use your picture and name in advertising. I think this should default to off, but LinkedIn doesn’t. Here’s how to manually turn it off with this LinkedIn privacy tip: 1) Click on your name [...]

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What’s on the minds of small business owners?

Kurt Scholle — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:13:59 +0000

What are the Top 5 issues on the minds of small business owners? I went to a Meetup recently where the presentation was on an un-scientific poll of small business owners by a local Small Business Development Center concerning their top 5 issues or concerns. Not surprisingly, most of their (our) concerns revolve around sales, [...]

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Word Camp Chicago Notes (Day2) Successful Blogging

Kurt Scholle — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:22:50 +0000

There was so much great successful blogging information presented at Word Camp Chicago. I reported my top takeaways and blogging tips last week. Today, I have tips and ideas on the building blocks of successful blogging, building your content bubble and how to attract readers to your blog. Building Blocks to Successful Blogging MJ Tam [...]

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