Don’t sweat it if you have been marketing yourself online and not been using Twitter. There are good solid reasons to use Twitter for marketing and it’s never too late to get started. Here are 5 solid reasons to include Twitter in your online marketing efforts. Twitter now uses autocomplete. Here’s another new feature that Twitter offers. If you know that certain customers are on Twitter and they’re following you. Search them out and send them a discount or other “Twitter-only” offer. Hashtags. MORE >>

When looking at your Twitter account how many of your followers/following do you really know? Is Twitter the modern day popularity contest? In Twitter embodies this same ideal. Gain friends (followers) the old fashioned way by being nice and being your own person. Should we have a Twitter prom among our followers to determine who the King and Queen are? Just kidding) My point is that Twitter isn’t high school. Tags: small business social media twitter Sure, we follow people because they follow us and vice a versa…but why? MORE >>

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY…THEY EARN IT by Nancy Myrland on July 30, 2010 Some of you might remember the 1970s Smith Barney commercial starring the famous actor and producer  John Houseman. The old-fashioned way…they earn it.” Because Smith Barney knows that old-fashioned hard work is often the difference between getting stung or getting a taste of the honey.&# Here’s why: We live in an era of instant gratification. MORE >>

True to its nature, the fashion and beauty magazine category ignored the status quo and set its own trend, creating innovative and lucrative products that drove them to close their fiscal year with a 7.3% So how did so many luxury fashion and beauty pubs succeed in a down economy as others failed to keep up? Among the titles in the fashion/beauty industry, there were numerous innovative approaches that strengthened their business and increased ROI in 2012, but these stole the show: Harper’s BAZAAR’s ShopBAZAAR: What is it? Co-written by Megan Manning & Kara Batt. MORE >>

In this thorough study of the media habits of Americans ages 12 and up (conducted annually since 1998), the survey authors have put a statistical fine point on something I’ve been pondering for a while : Is Twitter Massively Overrated? Conversely, despite its position as the darling of celebs, media, and marketers like yours truly, everything measured in the study is more popular than Twitter with the exception of iPad ownership, eBook reader ownership, and location-based services usage. 300% more Americans listen to Pandora radio than use Twitter. Double! MORE >>