One of the perks of having a business marketing & publicity blog is that I get great books sent to me to spread the word. And I love to share them with you!
I told you it was coming. Yes, it’s another Step Into The Spotlight! Business Book Giveaway.
We have 3 copies of David Meerman Scott’s [...]

I’ll follow you; You follow me
We’re a happy family
With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won’t you say you’ll follow me too?
Isn’t that a Barney song?
It’s a big fat lie.
Your “trade ya” followers aren’t really following you.
Yeah, they’re “following” you technically so they can broadcast to you.
Why not be upfront about [...]

It’s great to have David back with another guest post! The Second Edition of David Meerman Scott’s now classic book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, a BusinessWeek bestseller published in 24 languages (WOW!) is released this month. (We’ll be giving away 3 copies of David’s book later this month so watch for that [...]

There’s a very insightful article by Simon Dumenco over at Ad Age about the significance of the fact that Ashton Kutcher won the race with CNN to be the first with 1 million followers on Twitter. Go read the article but here’s the bottom line. Social media was supposed to level the playing field (which [...]

A Twitter Ad Agency? Twitter Awards?
It’s a rare day when I wake up and DON’T hear something surprising and new. Things are changing SO fast nowadays that even if you think you sort of get it when you go to bed, you wake up the next day and everything has changed. The exponential growth of [...]

As I confessed in my very first post, I don’t have a microwave or even a toaster. But I did recently open a Twitter account ’cause how’s a girl supposed to market a book without one? Here to give us the scoop on where to get started with social media is one of our 50 [...]