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Center for Due Diligence Interview

In preparation for the CFDD’s New Age Marketing Advisor Conference I did a short interview which you can hear below. // Some of the topics discussed were: – Implications and questions of FINRA Notice 10-06 for financial advisors. – Whether or not financial advisors will get value out of social networks. – How you should [...]

Advisor Spotlight: VitaVie Financial Planning & Social Media

Advisor Spotlight: VitaVie Financial Planning & Social Media

Welcome to the first edition of our Advisor Spotlight. Our goal is to find financial advisors that are successfully using social media to build their business and highlight them here. Ideally we can all learn something from the efforts of these trailblazers as more and more advisors start to take advantage of social media. Kristin [...]

10 reasons you should use social networks for business

10 reasons you should use social networks for business

A while back The Harvard Business Review posted an article titled The Uber-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010. In the article they shared details about companies that are still blocking access to social media sites and those that have started to embrace the value these sites can offer. We’ve already shared some stats around companies [...]

Straight to the point interview on Blogtalkradio

I had the pleasure of talking with Jeff Majka on Blogtalkradio this afternoon. Jeff is the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Strategic Communications Group, a nationally recognized public relations agency that develops and executes integrated PR and business development strategies for technology companies. He also runs Straight To The Point, a podcast focused [...]

3 SEO Strategies for Social Media, the next frontier of search

3 SEO Strategies for Social Media, the next frontier of search

Guest post by Jeff Watts, CEO of Strongpages, a search engine marketing firm specializing in making customer acquisition campaigns profitable. With the recent deals between search engines and social networks, a frequent question is what impact this has on search engine optimization (SEO) initiatives and on social media in the marketing mix.  Because content on [...]

The convergence of social in the enterprise

The convergence of social in the enterprise

There is a lot of buzz these days about the social enterprise, social CRM, social business, enterprise 2.0, collaboration platforms and everything in between. Just look at a few of these recent articles and reports. – TechCrunch listed Social CRM as a top 10 trend in 2010 – There are full blown conferences focused on [...]

Top 5 predictions for social in 2010

Top 5 predictions for social in 2010

ReadWriteWeb recently released a great post on their predictions for 2010. It is a long list and definitely worth a read.  I thought I would share my own personal top 5 list distilled down from all the great insights they had to share. #5 “A new social network will rise to join the big ones. [...]

Announcing two special arrivals

Announcing two special arrivals

I am happy to announce the arrival of my new son, Cooper.  He was born early Monday morning and everything went as planned.  As you might expect, both Twitter and Facebook were updated immediately and of course tons of pictures got posted for friends and family to see that day -  technology is great. There [...]