Social Marketing

While I can hardly believe it’s nearly 2009, I’m prepping for a fabulous year - and I hope you are too!
My plans have much to do with a few trends that I see as becoming even more prevalent in the coming year, and I wanted to share them with you.  So, with no further delay [...]

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Paul, Ed, Lynn and I discuss the perils (ok, it’s just scary for me, being a total hermit) and benefits of arranging in-person local meetups within your niche and attending conferences.  Plus, we kill the “nofollow” debate for good on two levels, technical and mindset.
If [...]

Remember John Jonas?  I wrote about him in a recent post because he’s got a great system to help you leverage outsourcing in your business - and I told you that’s he’s really one of the ‘good guys.’  I can say that because I actually know him personally.
He put up a blog post / short [...]

I put up a short survey asking you about your thoughts on internet marketing, social media and search engine optimization training.  I’ll actually be sharing those survey results with you once the survey is complete.  There is about 48 hours left for you to contribute your thoughts, please do so here.
Each answer helps me custom [...]

There’s a new widget in town!  I’ve added it here to the blog at the bottom of the sidebar (if you’re in a feedreader, you’ll need to click through to the site to see).
The widget, by startup Uservoice, is intended as a feedback mechanism for your site visitors.  Right now, I’m asking blog visitors what [...]

On November 19 I published a blog post entitled “Build a Business, Not a Product” where I talked about (and illustrated, complete with stick figures) the importance of creating an entire sales process rather then a one off product to maximize your returns.  I also mentioned a product (no longer available) that will automate the [...]

The Social Media Take-All Call went on for 2 hrs, 15 minutes.  I answered every single question submitted - the questions you needed to know the answeres to.
Some of the things I said may be unpopular. But I’m not in this game to tell you lies about the “internet marketing lifestyle” or whatever other can [...]

Tony at Ton-O-Fun Family Friendly Fun Tunes send a personalized CD of songs for my son’s birthday - he just turned 6.
We popped it in the CD player and he (and his 1 year old brother) had an absolute blast dancing around to the music, and Rory was SHOCKED when he heard his name in [...]

If words like Web 2.0 and social marketing have you spinning, I’ve got a great, free report available for you today.  This is a great look at the evolution of marketing online and how things have moved from old school to new school - plus, it’s short and to the point.
It also covers some of [...]

Right now I’m doing coaching on Twitter!  You can ask anything about internet marketing, social media, SEO, mindset - any topic, really, and I’ll answer quick-like.
Remember to post your questions on Twitter with @michellem in the body to ensure I get them.
This is a great exercise in distilling your question (and my answer) to their [...]