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If you don’t know Gary. Here’s the short story: Gary Vaynerchuk is an insanely successful, charismatic, unconventional entrepreneur that has attracted a cult-like following (self-described “Vayniacs“) of more than 60,000 viewers per day to WineLibraryTV.com. He’s written a new book called “Crush It.”
He was in Tampa tonight and made so much sense it hurt. [...]
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Social media has added an entirely new layer of opportunity for sales, relationship-building and knowledge-sharing. In fact, for many of us, it’s radically changing the way we network and do business with others. But, just as the internet gave us all a degree of anonymity, social networking allows us all a degree of laziness.
The #1 [...]
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I’m still recovering from a great day at BarCamp Tampa on Sunday. It was an amazing event where I truly felt connected with the local tech and new media community. Awesome, awesome stuff!
There were some very lively discussions. Okay I admit, I participated in a rather heated debate with a guy in one session who [...]
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I have been a GoDaddy customer for years. I’ve purchased countless domains, hosting packages—you name it. In all my years with GoDaddy, I’ve never encountered a performance issue like I did this week. My blog came to a screeching halt and began running like molasses. This, right after 32 new “fans” joined the Well Planned [...]
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Yesterday, Taco Bell announced that the company was prioritizing content over entertainment during its next website redesign. Why? Because the customers told them to.
Lyle Stewart, senior manager of corporate communications at Taco Bell states,
“Our customers told us loud and clear that while they like the entertainment, there’s some information most important to them that they [...]
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I recently spoke at an event where hundreds of professional marketers were scratching their heads and asking how to increase traffic and conversion on their sites. They were eager for that magic nugget of wisdom that would help them move the needle when they got back to the office. Aren’t we all!
The most common questions [...]
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Yesterday morning, I had the privilege of attending a presentation by Howard Hyden from The Center for Customer Focus. Howard spoke at the Centre Club to the CEO Council of Tampa Bay.
Howard’s energy and fervor were absolutely infectious. He had some terrific tough-love “Howard-isms” such as:
“The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s [...]
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Too many small businesses treat their web site as an afterthought–asking their friend-of-a-friend with a brother who knows some HTML to “do a web site.” Usually, the work is done for nothing or nearly nothing. And it shows.
Graham Staffing, however, clearly made their web site part of their marketing strategy. With clean navigation, a simple [...]
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