Everyone is freaking out about the “media revolution” and talking about the death of A, B, and C industries. There are Chicken Little’s all over the place, speculating gloom and doom like they get paid for it. It’s getting to the point where I can’t even function in the space that I’m supposed to function in…enough! It’s not the end of the world Look, things...

There are over 350 million people on Facebook, spending 55 minutes per day, and becoming fans of at least 2 pages per month. Every day, thousands of new businesses are realizing that Facebook holds the key to an audience they’ve never been able to reach before. With Facebook advertising, you can spot target by almost any demographic known to man. And unlike regular Facebook profiles, you Fan Pages give...

A Sign of What’s to Come Have you taken a moment to look at today’s media landscape in order to forecast what is coming in the days ahead? Right now we are on the brink of amazing technology that once unleashed, will change the way the world not only looks, but interacts with us. In the past…media was a 1 way street. As an entrepreneur, your charge was to interrupt programming in order to...

By now you’re already tired of hearing about this Apple tablet and it hasn’t even launched yet. That’s how the hype machines work though, and there’s a marketing lesson in that. Jobs and Apple used social media to stoke the fire while still keeping the details a secret. They leaked details and provided very clear instruction on how those details could be used. The way they did it was...

I wasn’t around when TV replaced radio as the primary form of entertainment in the home, but I can imagine what it must have been like. It’s a Passing Fad I’d bet that some people bought in 100%, while others kept waiting for the fad to pass. But, there were a few savvy entrepreneurs and business owners that saw the potential in TV advertising, and as a result, not only cashed in, but gained...

In 2010, I think we will see witness the social media buzz get louder and technology becoming more reliable, pervasive, and sophisticated. One year might not be enough time for social media to have become completely mainstream, but I predict it will be moving in that direction. New Becomes Commonplace In a few years, words like new and social will drop off…it will not be new media, or social media. It...

As a blogger and Twitter fanatic, I love the fact that I can sign up with IZEA and get paid to Tweet relevant and useful ads to my followers. However, as much as I like making a few extra dollars, getting paid to Tweet is nothing compared to paying others to do so for me. I’m talking about paying for ads from famous bloggers and other influential Twitter users, which is something that no one talks about,...

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