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Demystifying Social Media as a Marketing Tool

Demystifying Social Media as a Marketing Tool

In a new Vistage podcast, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur Chris Brogan talks about demystifying social media as a valuable marketing tool—and the biggest mistake small Read More
Human Resources and Social Media

Human Resources and Social Media

I’m still deciding if HR can be friends with social media. (Or is it the other way around?) On one hand, it’s a fantastic way Read More

How Old Are You In Blog Years?

How Old Are You In Blog Years?

I started blogging in 2006, so 600 blogs posts or so later it makes me wonder about whether blogging adds years to one’s life or Read More

Seriously?

Seriously?

Social media is a breath of fresh air.  It demands openness, honesty, and transparency.  It derides corporate speak, rewards authenticity, and challenges us all to Read More

Google's new  "+1" button will be built into its search engine. This will allow users see links their friends like.

Why Google + 1 May Predict Our Future

Immediately after Google +1 was announced, journalists were quick to either attack or laud the company’s initiative. Those unimpressed with

+1 reminded readers of the Read More

LinkedIn – an Underused Resource

LinkedIn – an Underused Resource

Bottom line (may I start with the bottom line . . ?): you need to be on LinkedIn, because your clients, members, colleagues and Read More

Are WE Winning?

Are WE Winning?

The recent Charlie Sheen debacle is the kind of public spectacle that underscores the current media environment – one that encourages the outrageous.   The more Read More

Is Facebook the new telephone?

Is Facebook the new telephone?

Since I am of a certain age (I was born when Ike was President of the U.S.), I have friends that refuse to engage on Read More

5 Social Media Blunders That Prevent Brands From Showing a ROI

5 Social Media Blunders That Prevent Brands From Showing a ROI

Is your company having a hard time finding value in the use of social media as part of its marketing strategy? Have you tried proving Read More

Our Brand Identity Imperative

Our Brand Identity Imperative

At Vistage, our four strategic imperatives are building the brand, growing organically, expanding internationally, and leveraging technology.

Today I’d like to talk about building the Read More

The Three Deadly Sins of Social Networks: Avoid Them!

The Three Deadly Sins of Social Networks: Avoid Them!

Whether you prefer LinkedIn or Facebook – the former more B2B and professional, the latter more B2C and social – it is now clear to Read More

Social Media and the Generational Divide: Is it Real?

Social Media and the Generational Divide: Is it Real?

Some years ago, I saw a cartoon in a magazine that showed a Boardroom, Chairman standing at the head of the table, members sitting on Read More

Are 15 People Using Social Networking Causing the Collapse of the Egyptian Government?

Are 15 People Using Social Networking Causing the Collapse of the Egyptian Government?

I am astonished by the fact that business leaders still constantly want to engage with me in a discussion regarding whether or not social networking Read More

Local Search Tips To Promote Your Business

Local Search Tips To Promote Your Business

Many businesses struggle to find ways to promote their services and location online. Everyone wants to increase their link placement on other sites, improve ranking Read More

Twitter: Why Everyone In Business Should Have One

Twitter: Why Everyone In Business Should Have One

Three months ago I could honestly tell you I thought Twitter was a waste of time. I couldn’t figure out what the # symbol meant, Read More

4 Simple Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

4 Simple Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

Here’s the hard truth: You’re wasting your time on LinkedIn if you don’t know how to use it correctly. And if you don’t have a Read More

History Tells Us What To Do With Social Media

History Tells Us What To Do With Social Media

Some people believe that social media is killing personal relationships, corrupting society, and eliminating privacy. Many wish that we could go back to the good Read More

The Secret Weapon to Optimizing your Facebook Page, Part-2

The Secret Weapon to Optimizing your Facebook Page, Part-2

Assembling Your Facebook Team

Once you have created a Facebook Page, your next step is to create a marketing strategy specifically for your Page.  Read More

Amy Porterfield

The Secret Weapon To Optimizing your Facebook Page, Part-1

Is social media marketing a central focus in your company’s current marketing plan?  In a recent study earlier this year by White Horse, 46% Read More

LinkedIn should be your first resource for learning about business people

LinkedIn should be your first resource for learning about business people

Many people I talk to remark that they see me all over LinkedIn.  I am always posting blogs, recommending people, making comments, asking and Read More

Foursquare – is it on the road to nowhere?

Foursquare – is it on the road to nowhere?

I’ve been ‘using’ Foursquare’s location based application for about 9 months now.   People ask me all the time WHY do I use Foursquare to let Read More

How to Make your Workplace Millennial-Friendly: What We can Learn from Vin Diesel

How to Make your Workplace Millennial-Friendly: What We can Learn from Vin Diesel

Guest Post by Monica Flores

As Generation Y Millennials enter the workforce, senior managers across the country express bafflement, confusion, and frustration at the inevitable Read More

Are You Shifting Into High Gear with Social Media?

Are You Shifting Into High Gear with Social Media?

Not only is our world moving faster and faster these days, it is also becoming more connected than ever.  And it looks like the corporate Read More

Monitoring and Measuring Social Media for Your Business

Monitoring and Measuring Social Media for Your Business

This is the third blog post in a series on social media for business.

One of the most popular arguments of why NOT to Read More

Interview With a CEO: Why You Can’t Ignore Social Media

Interview With a CEO: Why You Can’t Ignore Social Media

This is the second post in a series of posts on social media.

I recently had the opportunity to interview a Vistage member whose company Read More