Today’s Question: The new Facebook… Innovation or Annoyance?

Posted by - Sep 23, 2011

“For the first time ever in a single day we had 500M people use Facebook.” – Mark Zuckerberg Back in July the rage was Google Plus. Lots of us couldn’t get enough of it. Great engagement, interesting platform with high expectations, and the Google name. It was a social network that was going places. In

Why the Facebook news feed changes are easy to hate but why you shouldn’t

Posted by - Sep 21, 2011

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” ~Arnold Bennett After logging into Facebook this morning, I realized that the world as we know it is going to collapse in on itself. Facebook changing something fundamental like how you view your news feeds? Blasphemy! In case you hadn’t

Today’s Question: How are you rewarding customer loyalty?

Posted by - Sep 15, 2011

Chipotle is my Friday ritual. Ask anyone who follows me on Facebook and Twitter and they’ll be able to tell you about the Friday check-ins. I’m not sure what it is about the place. Sure it’s delicious, its health values are questionable, wait times are fairly quick, the burritos are heavy, and their hot sauce

ApartmentRatings.com follow up: 10 tips for managing your ratings.

Posted by - Sep 6, 2011

Write an article about ApartmentRatings and the conversation will get heated in no time. People are passionately for or against responding. For this follow up post I wanted to dig deep and see how other companies are handling their ApartmentRatings. I gained lots of insights but the one thing I found myself doing more than

RealPage acquires MyNewPlace: Marriage made in heaven?

Posted by - Aug 24, 2011

This is from a guest post on Mike Brewer’s Group published yesterday. “Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other” ~ Pietro Metastasio A curious thing happened on the way home from work yesterday. I was parked at a light and

Why technology isn’t just for Geeks anymore

Posted by - Aug 16, 2011

This was from a guest post on Mark Juleen’s blog. Enjoy! Let me tell you a story about a boy. 4 foot 11, 120 pounds soaking wet, wrinkled Bugle Boy pants, his blond hair in a bowl cut; tousled. When he spoke his voice cracked and the things he used to say revolved around some

Finally…a better definition of what being social in business really means

Posted by - Aug 9, 2011

You’ve probably read countless blog posts and articles about how social media has revolutionized the business landscape, how it’s the second coming of Christ, and how it’s the Star Wars Prequel that should’ve been. The one thing lacking from all those posts is a definition of what being social as a business really means. It’s

Some helpful tips for making your Craigslist posts more effective

Posted by - Jul 27, 2011

Founded in 1995, Craigslist is the dominant player in classified websites. When you’re thinking about selling or renting something, the first site that comes to mind is Craigslist. It’s that awareness (and the fact that it’s free!) that makes it so effective as a lead generating tool. Alright fine, we know it’s not sweat equity