When to hire internally versus use a marketing agency
Robert Urban, Chief Marketing Officer of Brand Advance, recently wrote an awesome white paper giving suggestions on when it makes more sense for a company to train an existing employee, hire a new employee, or to utilize the services of a marketing agency for various marketing initiatives. Here’s the link to download the white paper: [...]
Brand Advance Hires New Creative Director
We’re very excited to announce that we have hired a new creative director to join the Brand Advance team. Here are some details from a recent press release: Cutting-Edge Artist Named Creative Director for Orlando’s Brand Advance ORLANDO, Fla. (July 2, 2010) – Rich Johnson, an award-winning artist who has distinguished himself as an innovator [...]
Understanding Social Media
Recently Brand Advance was referred to a growing author and successful business man to generate buzz and awareness for his upcoming book and tour. After several interactions with him it was clear that he was viewing social media as traditional “push” marketing. The points below were articulated to him in an email…specific aspects of the [...]
My Copyblogger Debut-Land More Customers
Last week a blog post that I wrote was published on Copyblogger, one of the top 5 internet marketing blogs in the world. It was very well received and within a week had over 400 people share the post on twitter, over 80 people share it on Facebook and 40+ comments. I just realized that [...]
Are You a Trust Agent
This is a sponsored guest post written by Chris Brogan on behalf of Trust Agents. Post powered by Sponzai Want to know about our book, Trust Agents? My co-author, Julien Smith, and I want to know if you are a trust agent. What defines a trust agent? Here are the six main secrets of [...]
AT&T Launches Small Biz Tech Makeover Contest
Do you have a small business or idea for a startup? I own and operate a small business and also launched a start up venture last year with my business partners called GroupTable. Let me tell you from first hand experience that growing a small business, especially a technology venture in the current economic climate [...]
A Year in Review & Lessons Learned Since I Started Blogging
It’s amazing and inspiring for me to examine how much a year can change your life. If you have a blog and keep it updated, it almost provides a way to interview your previous self and see what you were thinking and doing and how everything has ended up thus far. With that said, tomorrow [...]
GroupTable Makes Top 10 Best Classroom 2.0 Applications List
GroupTable has made Huddlemind’s Top 10 Best Classroom 2.0 Applications List. Huddlemind is a specialist social-media education and eventing company. They also own and operates a Social Network of Educators and Organizational Development practitioners at huddlemind.net. Here’s Dave Duarte (Co-founder of Huddleminds) list: – 1. Udutu: Easily author and publish courses online 2. Engrade: Web-based [...]
Been Busy…Stay Tuned for more posts
Hi Everyone, I’ve been extremely busy lately and haven’t had much time to come up for air and post on my blog. I was out of town for a week in Vegas for Affiliate Summit West then came back and have had a lot of obligations for both IZEA and my start-up (GroupTable) lately. It’s [...]
BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome
Have you heard? My friend BenSpark, super photographer and blogger extraordinaire is giving away a Big Box of Awesome to one lucky reader. He has asked me to reveal one item that is in that box. The item is Earl Nightingale’s Lead the Field. Lead the Field has often been referred to as the “Program [...]
