New Twitter Home Page: Any Importance?

Twitter launched a new version of their web page today, and the new design is eerily similar to that of a search engine. They announced the new design on their blog this morning, and the reason that they gave for the redesign:
Helping people access Twitter in more relevant and useful ways upon first introduction lowers [...]

SU.PR- Well Done StumbleUpon!

Special thanks to my good friend Rem Jackson for bringing this awesome new tool to our attention.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t spend as much time on social bookmarking sites as I should. Building your reputation on sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and others can usually provide a great ROI later in the [...]

Buying Tweets Rising in Popularity

Offering an incentive for someone to Tweet about your product is a great idea if done correctly (and with some sort of creativity), but the tactic seems to be used more and more lately.
In the most recent Tweet incentive, Squarespace is giving away 30 iPhones in 30 days for anyone that tweets something about #squarespace, [...]

New Report Launched: Twitter for Attorneys

You’re probably hearing more and more about Twitter as the days go by, either on television when they announce the newest celebrity who is “tweeting”, or from your friends and colleagues who already seem to be up on the Twitter lingo.
Well, just because you’re left scratching your head whenever they bring up words like “tweet” [...]

Top Five Warning Signs that You’re Addicted to Twitter

After reading an article in the Washington Post this morning about people Tweeting while serving jury duty, I immediately said to myself: is it bad that I could picture myself doing that?
After I realized that the answer is yes, I finally had a breakthrough: my life would not be complete without Twitter (or Facebook). This [...]

A Twitter Tattoo? Now I’ve seen everything

This is a perfect case of viral marketing meets social media marketing meets, well, probably a stupid decision.
George Murphy, Foster Web Marketing’s SEO and social media marketing manager, was interviewed last week in an article by the Baltimore Sun on the power of social media marketing.
The article also featured a young Baltimore native who was brave enough [...]

Attorney Lead Generation via Twitter

So here is a quick example of how an attorney that is active on Twitter was able to find a potential client pretty easily.
Jennifer Cohen, who does some social media marketing for some of our clients from time to time, was recently loading groceries into her car near where she lives on a busy street.
Somebody [...]

SEO: Dying, Dead, or None of the Above?

There has  been some talk about SEO being dead or dying, but is that really the case?
Truth: While the number of “SEO firms” and “SEO experts”continue to multiply and the industry as a whole gains more exposure (and more people think that working at home doing SEO is their ticket to freedom), there will be, as a [...]

Top 5 Social Media Myths for Attorneys Explained

Everyday, more professionals are accepting and adopting social media as an effective marketing tool. In the past, assumptions from the unknowing served as barriers to acceptance and deterred adoption.
To help sort through some of these popular concerns, that still exist even among adopters, I want to address the top five social media myths and excuses [...]

Facebook for Professionals

Facebook, founded in 2004 as a student site, opened up to non-students in 2006 and now has a network of over 100 million users, making it an important and useful social media tool. It has transformed into a platform for students and professionals alike and helps bridge connections between top professionals who seem out of [...]