So, Google does the next best thing – they launch a competing service: As the old Jim Croce song said: You don’t tug on superman’s cape… and you don’t mess around with Google. Social Media Google Groupon post postaweek2011 retail social mediaFirst, Google tries to buy Groupon for the tidy sum of 6 billion dollars. Groupon says no because all the buzz they are getting is driving up their eventual IPO value to the 15 billion dollar range. The explosiveness of services like Groupon, Living Social and their ilk are really no surprise. Your thoughts? MORE >>

As the shopping mania that is Black Friday descends on the nation early this Friday, and in some cases the night of Thanksgiving, retailers who are effective in using social media are likely to be smiling much more when they ring up their cash registers at the end of the day. According to Jan Rezab, CEO at Socialbakers, “Savvy retailers are combining traditional banner ads and web pages dedicated to Black Friday specials with Facebook posting and Tweets about deals, coupons, merchandise, and hot tips. eMarketer recently reported that U.S. Photo credit: csmonitor.com. MORE >>

Home About Me Charities 12for12k Kiva Work With Me About This Blog Disclosure Comment Policy Headway Archives Contact Me Great Blogs There’s More To Competence Than Training September 9, 2010 5 voices share yours! You need well trained, competent employees in your workplace. I’ll go so far as to say this: the only way to measure whether training’s successful is on job trainee competence. If the trainee isn’t competent on the job, your training’s failed. Is Competence Enough? Share Save This is a guest post by Leon Noone. MORE >>

My personal favorite is to use “old media” – picking up the phone every now and then to personally engage non-competing businesses that serve the same community. found nothing, but bought the club anyway as a result of some great service from the local retailer. Awareness Blogging Community content marketing How-To Marketing Small Business Social Media blogging community Customer customers engage Honest Opinion Jeff Korhan LinkedIn local retailer Loyal Customers marketingLast week LinkedIn celebrated a milestone of achieving 200 million users. MORE >>

Did you know that the first brand on Twitter was a retailer? The social media giant analyzed over 7,600 users and their site visitation and purchase behavior on over 700 retail brand websites during the busy back to school season. Internet users who used Twitter but were not exposed to retailer tweets, and another group who represented the average Internet user. Given the 3 key takeaways about retailer tweets, there is no doubt that you should do updates about Black Friday Sales and Cyber Monday Deals. created it and emailed them. Jack Dorsey (@jack) May 28, 2011. MORE >>