There is a war on the horizon comprised of battles for your clicks and it will be played out thousands of times a day on blogs across the world. As with all online battles for clicks and notoriety,lately, we have Facebook to blame for starting this. It started with Facebook’s Like button. way to quickly share the things you found significant (or at the very least interesting) with your friends, fans, followers, and family. Not to be out done, Twitter created the Tweet Button , and earlier this year Google introduced it’s flag ship button the oddly named +1 Button. What’s next? MORE >>

There are a ton of tools out there – free and paid – to manage your daily social media activity. have picked out the primary tools that I use on a daily bases, for myself and my clients, that I think will be the most useful to share with you, the SMB owner. Social Media Management Tools Social Media Marketing Tips Facebook Google Alerts Google Analytics Hootsuite Social Media Management Social Media Monitoring SocialMention TweetStats TwentyFeet Twitter Wefollow MORE >>

Discover how social media marketing on two of the main social channels shares much in common with email marketing. If you’ve already ‘taken the plunge’, then I hope you will think of some new ideas on how to exploit some email best practice within your social media marketing for Facebook and Twitter. Cross-channel Email marketing Social media marketing email marketing Facebook social media marketing Twitter MORE >>

Image by Chuck Nado. bubbling marketing conversation states that there are no ad, pr, social media, sales, customer service, HR or any other specific functional strategies; rather that an organization — corporate or nonprofit — only has one strategy. All actions are part of that strategy. What an interesting myth — particularly for larger organizations that have diverse brands, product lines, companies and international operations. Consider the old GE mission of achieving first or second place in any of the business areas it operates in. Hardly. We know this. MORE >>

It’s Facebook question of the week time (clap, clap, clap)! It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a real video question and I have a special treat for you. We’re going to have a lesson in how to say my name. That’s right…you’re going to learn how to say my name! Well, I also sing a song. On video. I’m pretty sure it can be missed so you can fast forward to :40. And now on with the show (if you can’t see the video in your feed, click here and it’ll magically appear)! The Ugly : Kenneth Cole , hands down, gets this award from me. MORE >>