I have the distinct pleasure of sharing the following interview with you, today, dear blog readers. Jenny Cisney is a blogger for the Kodak, 1000 Words, blog. If you have not visited it yet, I suggest a hop over there today. Kodak has been hosting this blog for some time,... Read more →

[there are a LOT of links in this post - I added them purposely because they take you to good content; click them now if you will...or come back another time to click them] I've been back from my trip to NYC for several days now. I was there as... Read more →

By Guest Blogger, Mary Schmidt, Marketing Troubleshooter Hot and buzzy phrases like "Social Media" "Social Marketing" and "Word-of-Mouth" always attract a lot of people looking for new angles. And, that's both good and bad. The traditional Mad Ave. types trying to force fit their obnoxious old ways into the new... Read more →

In just a couple of hours I'll be in the car with Tom on my way to NYC (the Big Apple, to most). This is not a fun jaunt, off to see a play on Broadway, or to shop along 5th Avenue (that's where people shop, right?) It's a business... Read more →

by Guest Blogger, Lena West, Chief Social Media Strategist at xynoMedia Recently, my team and I were trying out the online project management tool, Wrike. After some weeks of looking at feature sets, interfaces and poking around with trial accounts, we decided that Wrike wasn't going to work for our... Read more →

By Guest Blogger, Mary Schmidt, Marketing Troubleshooter This Just In: The Productivity Killer - Thinking! Via Dawn RIvers Baker - if you don't already read The Journal Blog, you should add to your list. Dawn writes about micro and small business, including public policy (she actualy goes to D.C. and... Read more →

When Yvonne and Tom got me started with my blog, Donna's Promo Talk, over a year and a half ago I devoted my first two posts about the marketing programs being created for Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. Since then I have written several more times about this unique, groundbreaking... Read more →

This is an extra post today. In support of a good friend in PR. We all know PR is a must-have for small businesses. Not all of us can afford good PR. We often do it ourselves, and many of us do it pretty well. But, when you want a... Read more →

It's time, the experts say, to move beyond marketing to women, marketing to men, marketing to kids... it's time to market to people. Now, it's not that women and men and kids aren't people, but...when we label them or box them into groups, people, as a whole, resent it. Men... Read more →

by Guest Blogger, Lena West, Chief Social Media Strategist at xynoMedia I was a really industrious student all throughout high school. I was the one who did extra credit assignments and looked up words I didn't understand...just for fun. These habits served me well in school and continue to serve... Read more →