Facebook Community Standards Committee Meme

Facebook Jail: The Scam to Drive Up the User Count

Lots of people I know, including me, are in Facebook Jail right now. Some folks I know, real people who were loyal and avid...

Thinking about Minecraft

  A true viral phenomenonEveryone dreams of their promotions "going viral", but most intended to don't. Why? When a promotion goes viral it shows ROI orders...

How many Facebook Profiles are really fake?

Here's an interesting article that appeared on CNN.com about fake Facebook Profiles:http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120516043821-facebook-reflect-02-t1-main.jpgThere's not much more about it on Mashable, but it's interesting to hear...

Why RSS Feeds, YouTube, and Google Maps Plugins Are So Effective

 Want to create a way to draw more traffic into your site, leveraging the same potential that makes Google Maps, YouTube video embedding, and...

Copy and Paste Images in Facebook Without Saving

I just discovered you can copy and paste images in Facebook without saving them.  If you're into using Facebook, and use images when you...
marketing dowsing

Dowsing and Marketing Sincerity

Let's talk about something weird, dowsing, and how it illustrates the power of marketing sincerity. My father was telling me a story about dowser....

George Carlin on Advertising and Marketing: A Classic Routine

A funny standup routine from George Carlin about Advertising and Marketing

Magic Dollars

Stage magic and marketing are very similar. In both you’ve got an audience and your goal is to get them to believe something. In...

Habituating the List – Why your boring posts are killing you.

The other day, someone I remember doing some web form/CGI programming for back in the mid-nineties, Jake Steingart, friended me on facebook. I hadn't...

RE: Follow Up – The New Rude Tactic of Unsolicited Email

Have you been getting emails from strangers mentioning a "follow up" lately? I have. I get a few each day, people using this kind...