Category Archives: Social Media
MerchantCircle Review
“Be careful of this woman who parades around as the Maven in the Hat at Marketing Bytes. She’s creative, she’s fun, she’s inventive… but worst of all: she’ll make you THINK! . . . .
Alison Gilbert ‘Maven in the Hat!’ wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
Alison Gilbert ‘Maven in the Hat!’
Advertising & Marketing Director at TechAcs, Inc.
Greater New York City Area
Stik.com – Alison Gilbert
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Business Networking | Biznik
Outbound Marketing, the hard sell approach, was all there was before the Internet. Now there is a choice, a less costly means of attracting customers called Inbound Marketing. Yet many small businesses still struggle with which way to go.
Introducing INBOUND BOOMER
This is your introduction to Inbound Boomers and first lesson. Social Media is here to stay. So unless you are planning to be put out to pasture or the back nine as a livelihood, you probably want to embrace it, now.
How to Become a Conscious, Educated Consumer
The concept of becoming a conscious, educated consumer used to be referred to as let the buyer beware. It implied that one was supposed to just know how to do things, and if one did not, then one was the fool. Today there is a more enlightened or conscious approach to sharing knowledge and lessons so we all do not have to go through the same pain.
How to Make Bread Pudding out of Stale Bread
Anyone who has had an interest in both cooking and not wasting food has probably taken stale bread and made it into bread pudding. There are other uses for stale bread, like making it into breadcrumbs, but my favorite is bread pudding. Believe it or not, this blog post is not about food, per se; it is about the Internet and the mention of food is for metaphorical purposes only.
Is ‘Social Media’ Anti-Social?
I began to wonder if ‘Social Media’ was actually ‘anti-social’ rather than a boon to human interaction when I became facebook friends with Nick, co-owners with his brother John of a great Italian restaurant literally located down the block from me, called Bonbino’s. After weeks of building my facebook friends list which included hours away …
A Smorgasbord of the Latest Technology
The portal has opened and I am faced with a smorgasbord of the latest technology. I have a blog. I am on facebook. I will soon be on twitter and linkedin. And for the life of me, I do not know what made me decide I needed to have a webcam to see around the …
Beam me up facebook; forget the flying carpet and the genee in a bottle!
I have just become a member of facebook and wow am I hooked. Regular e-mail feels one dimensional; this feels three dimensional . . . if not four! This is better than a magic carpet or the genee in a bottle. Please come and visit me . . . and join! Just go to facebook.com …
ONLINE ADVERTISING FOR LOCAL BUSINESS
Alison Gilbert, Digital Age Journalist ♦ March 10, 2010 ♦ Leave a Comment
The word local in ‘Local Biz Marketing’ can be confusing. It is worth taking the time to explain exactly what it means and what the parameters are as it relates to marketing. The word ‘local’ in ‘Local Biz Marketing’, as it relates to business marketing, refers to something other than the marketer working exclusively in his or her own business’ area. It does not mean, as is often thought, that someone who does ‘local biz marketing’ must be ‘local’ to the same area as the businesses that desire to be marketed. Nor does it mean that the marketer only works with businesses in the same area in order to do a professional job.
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