Whoopi murders her iPhone 4 when it kept giving her major problems [VIDEO]
Interesting article and video from “The View” regarding Whoopi Goldberg’s experience with her new iPhone 4. She murdered it after having problems receiving calls, dropping calls, and so much more.
Whoopi Goldberg “Murdered” Her iPhone 4 [VIDEO]
Talk about bad timing: today, Apple is holding a press conference to explain their view on the iPhone 4’s antenna issues, but Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t wait that long. Due to numerous problems with the device, which she described on the latest episode of ABC’s The View, she “murdered” it by smashing it against the ground.
“The people couldn’t get a hold of me…my phone would ring and ring and ring to them, but wouldn’t do anything to me,” she explains, adding that she also had troubles with e-mail. “My phone was bad; it wasn’t just that the antenna was bad, it was bad,” she said.
Website and Social Media Summer Camp to help you integrate social media into your online efforts
Virtual Summer Business Camp for Business Owners Who Want to Whip Their Website into Social Media Shape starts today at 2pm CDT/ 3pm EDT.
Social media has dramatically changed the online marketing landscape. Traffic is now directed by sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook,Twitter and others. Websites that are social media enhanced attract the most traffic. Business owners that are ready to take their websites to the next level can attend the virtual summer business camp given by WebSiteSocialMediaPlan.com on July 16, 23, 30 to learn how to integrate key social media tools that will push their marketing message to their social media hangouts.Time is money. A well laid out website social media plan will reduce the amount of time it takes to implement a revenue generating social media campaign. The goal is to leverage social media as a cost effective marketing tool without getting distracted by… Continue reading
Five Social Media Tips for Fun and Profit
Five Social Media Tips for Fun and Profit
Last month, I published a post called The Seven Deadly Sins of Public Relations, in which I made a plea for intelligent PR pitches. Ask and ye shall receive! My LinkedIn/Twitter/Facebook friend, Issamar Ginzberg, responded with some very solid social media advice for small businesses. Here are Ginzberg’s five tips for using social media (some of which he used on me, so they clearly work):
Respond to comments on Facebook from industry leaders. Fan (now the “like” button on most Facebook pages) leaders in your industry and respond to their comments. This accomplishes two things: you develop a relationship with the poster (who, outside of the social media scene, might not be social to you at all) by making your name recognizable even if they don’t interact with you directly; it also enables you to develop… Continue reading
10 Ways to Destroy Your Management Career
Want to keep your management career in tact? Then make sure you read this article so that you don’t do any of the 10 ways to destroy it.
10 Ways to Destroy Your Management Career
Every day, managers and executives just like you self destruct. They don’t just shoot themselves in the foot. Nope. They destroy their jobs, even their entire careers, and in dramatic fashion. If you liked 20 Ways to Screw up Your Management Career, you’re going to love this. The methods are far more insidious.
As before, there’s no theory here; I’ve witnessed each of these career-ending spectacles in real life. And you’ll notice that none of them have anything to do with your capability, experience, skills, business acumen, or what a nice guy you are. That’s what makes it all the more ironic … and pathetic.
So, managers at all levels, aspiring or current executives, listen up. Especially in… Continue reading
Andy Beal Shares Ten Tactics That Could Save Your Online Reputation
Just finished an interview with Andy Beal on my BlogTalkRadio show (http://blogtalkradio.com/kimbeasley). He shared about social media monitoring and how important it is for business owner to monitor their personal name and their business name.
Ten Tactics That Could Save Your Online Reputation
This is a guest posting by Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online and CEO of online reputation monitoring tool Trackur. He outlines ten tactics that could prevent your company suffering its own online reputation meltdown.
1. Know your achilles heel
Do you know your weaknesses? No, seriously! I don’t mean the “we try too hard to please our customers” bunk. Do you know the flaws in your products, the areas of your service that suck, or the member of your management team most likely to stick his foot firmly in his mouth?
If Kryptonite had… Continue reading
New England Patriots Want Fans to “Help Vince” in Massive Location-Based Trek
Interesting concept for a professional sports team to do regarding social media.
New England Patriots Want Fans to “Help Vince” in Massive Location-Based Trek
The New England Patriots are kicking off their 2010 season with a well-choreographed social media play designed to get fans engaged in a digital way. The team has used SCVNGR to build a “Help Vince” trek that tasks fans to hit the streets to find lineman Vince Wilfork’s 2004 Super Bowl ring.
The “Help Vince” trek involves 200+ places that players will need to journey to as they search the city and beyond for the “lost” ring (which was said to be stolen by an angry Jets fan).
Each location comes with a new adventure and an opportunity to earn points, badges and prizes. The grand prize — a private lunch with a Patriots player — will go to the first person to… Continue reading
Cool Tool: Topsy Finds Most Influential Tweeters on Any Topic
Cool Tool: Topsy Finds Most Influential Tweeters on Any Topic
Want to find the most influential and relevant Twitter users on the topic of baking? iPhone apps? The oil spill? Twitter search startup Topsy has built a neat way to sort Twitter users in order to reveal those experts who tweet actively and influentially on any given topic. If you’re trying to research a new area, market a product, or just find good people to follow, this could be super useful. What I especially like is that it tends to bring up both individuals as well as companies and organizations.
Press Release: Andy Beal and Trackur.com
Andy Beal Founder of Trackur.com Shares His Knowledge of Reputation Management & Internet Marketing on Your Passionate Business BlogTalk Radio Show
The featured guest for Your Passionate Business show on July 15 at 4 pm CDT/5 pm EDT is internationally-renowned consultant, author, and speaker Andy Beal. Andy specializes in online reputation management and Internet marketing.
Considered one of the world’s most respected reputation management experts, Andy has worked with many brand-leaders including Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline, Lowes, and NBC. His advice is trusted by ABC News, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and more.
Andy’s current projects include his book Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online, his blog Marketing Pilgrim, SEM Vendor & Trackur.com’s social media monitoring tools. Follow Andy on Twitter by visiting http://Twitter.com/andybeal.
Your Passionate Business BlogTalk radio show is your source for information to reinvent and compete in 2010. Special guests share their ideas on how to… Continue reading
Adding Cross Marketing To Your Business Plan
Did your business struggle to survive in 2009? Are you looking for a way to add growth to your business in 2010? Then let me suggest that you take a look into “cross marketing” with at least one other business owner.
An example of cross marketing can be seen in the picture to the left. As you can see, these are products that have been associated with the gaming system product called Wii Fit. You can see towels and a sweat band, which are things that you might need if you are using Wii Fit to workout.
So for 2010, let me help you think of ways that you can add cross marketing to your business plan. Below are a few steps that can help you get started as you determine how to find your ideal cross marketing partner.
- Create a list of the type of businesses you… Continue reading
