Happy Memorial Weekend! I hope you’re all enjoying the nice, long weekend. For those of you new to the Lonely Marketer this is one my weekly recap posts. I bookmark a ton of posts weekly that relate to small businesses, marketing, social media or just something unique. At the end of the week I select a handful that I thought really hit the mark. Here are a variety from last week.
- Do You Go Where Everyone Else Goes: Drew does a great job of coming up with insightful questions. This time he wraps a question around a panoramic video clip of Times Square. Talk about stimulus!
- RSS Heading Toward Mainstream Adoption: Anita Campbell talks about the growth of RSS feeds and how they’re becoming vitally important to blogs and websites that distribute information.
- The Conversation Monetizes Itself: Mack Collier writes about social media monetizing itself. Mack’s equation makes alot of sense, but as I commented on his post, I don’t think it holds up in the board room today. But, the reason I highlighted his post is sort of a ‘hat tip’ to Mack for writing about a polarizing topic for marketing managers. Mack started a conversation that will be discussed many times over in the coming years. My personal opinion is that if Mack wrote that post two years from now he’d get a collective, “well, duh” from his audience. But, currently we’re in a phase where social media in a marketing plan is still something we need to justify.
- Don’t Over-stuff Your Feed With Too Much Advertising and/or Flare: Derick at Internet Marketing Monitor highlights a good topic for businesses getting into blogging. Don’t waste too much space with socialization flare. Some is good, but too much will take away from your professional feel.
- How to Succeed in Business Blogging Without Trying: Mike Sansone, a social media coach, has a quick post with a high impact message about what it takes to succeed in corporate blogging.
- Curing Customer Service at the Doctor’s Office: Cam Beck hits on a topic that irritates me more than almost anything else. The general lack of customer service and respect for people’s time at the doctor’s office. Thank you, Cam!
Have a great rest of the weekend and we’ll see you next week!
Pat,
As always — thanks for reading Drew’s Marketing Minute and for adding to the conversation.
I appreciate the hat tip!
Drew
Thanks for the mention, Patrick. I’m glad I’m not the only one who recognizes the need for a happy medium when it comes to tacking on social flare to RSS feeds!
Hey Drew,
No problem! You’re definitely one of the most creative, insightful bloggers around. You’ll have let out your secret sometime on how you come up with so many ideas to write about each week!
Hey Derick,
In some cases the social flare is not bad and in others it gets in the way and takes away from the content. There is definitely a happy medium there!