How to Get Your Thumbnails to Show on Social Sites

Here is the scenario: You create some great content. The content gets submitted by someone other than yourself to one of the many social sites. The thumbnail that is picked to correspond with the piece is totally irrelevant ... [Read More]

Why Companies Shouldn't Block Social Media in the Workplace

Last week DigitalMediaWire published an article stating that the majority of U.S. companies ban social media sites at work. The stats break down thusly: 54% of business block employee access to social networking sites 19% ... [Read More]

Interview with Chris Goward from WiderFunnel

Recently I interviewed Chris Goward, a conversion rate expert who has a company called WiderFunnel. I first met Chris at IMC Stockholm and saw him run a fantastic workshop about conversion and landing page testing. When I was ... [Read More]

Good Content and Great Networking at Elite Retreat and SMX East

The last couple weeks have been pretty busy in 10e20 Land, as we've been hopping from conference to conference (and Chris still has another one lined up for next week -- WebCAM in Bend, Oregon). Now that there's a bit of a ... [Read More]

SMX East: Twitter Marketing Tactics

It's the social media day of the conference, and after I spoke about Facebook Marketing Tactics Chris Winfield and Co. moved the social media train over to Twitterville to discuss marketing tactics. Chris moderated and ... [Read More]

SMX East: Facebook Marketing Tactics

This session is all about Facebook and is run by Danny Sullivan, who has segmented off the speakers by topic (advertising, search, events, groups/pages).   The panel has some great speakers who give up some really ... [Read More]

SMX East: Ecommerce Search Marketing Tactics

SMX East 2009 has been a great show so far and I have the pleasure to work an entire track on day 2 to make sure everything runs smoothly.  I am located in the  Video, Ecommerce & Blended Search Track, which is sure to ... [Read More]

SMX East: Mobile Apps Strategies and Local Search Tactics

ay 1 of SMX East has drawn to a close. This is my first time attending the show, and I was pretty surprised to see so many new faces -- this conference will prove should be great for networking and meeting new people in the ... [Read More]

The October ‘09 Social Media Hot Topic List

It's that time of the month again folks -- time to pay your bills, flip a page on your calendar and refresh your linkbait ideas :-P .  The month of October should be a big one for social media, and ideally you could use ... [Read More]

The 10e20 October 2009 Conference Schedule

Chris and I are at Jeremy Schoemaker's Elite Retreat in New York City, and we're halfway through Day 1. I've heard a wealth of information and my head's swimming with awesome tips and Internet marketing ideas, but I wanted to ... [Read More]