Tag Archives: YouTube

New Report Reveals Power, Reach of Online Video

Marketers should take note: consumers love online video. Just take a look at comScore’s latest online video viewership report for July: Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property with 143.2 million unique viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 55.1 million viewers. Facebook jumped one position [...]

Small Businesses Turning to Social Media in Tough Economic Times

With uncertain economic times, small businesses have to keep their wallets tight to keep their books out of the red. In order to keep your head above water, you have to advertise. Although costly, it is necessary to boost sales, grow your business, and have a positive impact on the community around you. Most small [...]

An hour with @scobleizer

by Curt Mercadante Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of listening in on a Bulldog Reporter teleconference featuring social media/tech evangelist Robert Scoble, entitled, “2010 Tech Trends and Tactics.”  (You can view the live tweets here.) What made this teleconference so interesting is that here you had Scoble — a journalist (yes, bloggers are [...]

Social Media Isn’t a Strategy

by Curt Mercadante I wanted to share this article from the latest issue of The Public Relations Strategist about how PR professionals can adapt and score successes in this new media environment. My favorite point: “Train your company and your clients to stop thinking of social media as a ‘strategy.’” You need a content and [...]

Twitter: The Online Cocktail Reception, Part II

Following is Part II of Curt Mercadante’s explanation of the “ins and outs” of Twitter — excerpted from his recent presentation to the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber Business Expo:

Getting started on Twitter

by Curt Mercadante The following post is taken from our new, free booklet, The Press Release is Dead: Using New Communications Tools to Build your Business, Non-Profit or Campaign. Have you ever walked into a cocktail party full of people you don’t know and cringed at the mere thought that you’d have to break into [...]

Is the press release dead?

The video excerpt below is from my presentation last week to the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce Business Expo.  In this excerpt, I deal with the question, “Is the press release dead?”  Please also click here to get a free copy of our new e-booklet: The Press Release is Dead: Using New Communications Tools [...]