By Merle http://MerlesWorld.com How would you like to have the top ranking in Google for a particular keyphrase? There are a lot of people who spend hours every week on search engine optimization, who would consider a front page listing on Google’s search results as having their prayers answered. What if I told you it’s [...]
We???ve gone through a strange change, from people not realizing that they need to be their own brand, to people not realizing how being the brand impacts the way they do business. It???s interesting, really. Tom Peters was the first person I recall talking about it, back in the Alan Webber days of FastCompany (The [...]
Military students often learn of a certain mistake that a commander can make: fighting last year’s war with this year’s tools. The lesson is that it may not work to use the newest techniques and technologies as a way to do the same old thing more effectively, when the answer instead might be using new [...]
The traditional model of brand building has been largely dictated by the technology available. When the means of communication was paper, the picture advertisement dominated, and gave rise to the clever slogan. The slogan developed into the jingle with the rise of radio, and the advent of television allowed the creation of the commercial. All [...]
< There are no guarantees of success when developing a modern brand. There is no switch that will pour out money, there are no stunts that will automatically create attention, and there is no how-to manual that, if assiduously followed, will assure your brand’s place in the annals of the great Internet legends. Brands are [...]
Twitter, the net’s networking success story, is intriguing and intimidating because of its message limitations: they can be 140 characters, and no more. This is to say; each message sent on Twitter can be no larger than the previous sentence. Not an additional letter, space, period or dash can be added. These limitations have proven [...]
Recently, our blog took a look at the basics of newsletter writing. We covered some material that we’ve stressed time and time again: make sure the content is well written, pay attention to presentation, and tie it into the brand without going by rote. This is part of our message that quality always matters, and [...]
Everyone???s at it, every pundit and commentator???s telling us that social media is the big thing we all need to be into to succeed in 2010. But how can your business benefit? Maybe you???re on facebook or twitter yourself, or you???re an early adopter of Google Wave. Chances are though that it???s all about your [...]
We’ve previously discussed the Web’s amazing tendency to take very good ideas and adapt them to techniques largely unrelated to their original intent. Nowhere is this more currently prevalent than in the realm of Social Media Networking. SM sites were intended to allow people to present a profile and keep in touch with interested parties. [...]