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December 13, 2014

What’s in a name? Everything! 10 reasons why naming strategy is crucial for your brand.

I was talking to a client the other day who wanted more visibility. They had a hideously long URL for their company website. I rolled my eyes. I immediately knew they were doomed to failure unless they changed their name. I asked: “Is there any way you can find a shorter url?” My prospective client… Continue reading

blog, bootstrapping, Facebook, personal branding, privacy, public relations, renegade marketing, search engine optimization, seo, shameless self promotion, social media, Twitter, viral, website

finding a great name, product naming, url
November 21, 2014

Fire your SEO guy. Here’s 9 reasons why social search is the new SEO.

By creating your own “news” in press releases and social media posts, you are boosting your website traffic and page rank. You still want to get “real news” too — articles in credible blogs, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV coverage. Continue reading

blog, bootstrapping, Facebook, Google, internet, LinkedIn, marketing, PR Newswire, press release, public relations, search engine optimization, seo, social media, Wordpress, you tube

content, search engine marketing, sem, seo, smm, social media, social search
November 20, 2014

Remembering Windows 1.0 — 29 years ago today.

Windows was launched on November 20, 1985. On a floppy disk. You had to get another floppy disk mailed to you in order to fix the bugs. It was not dazzling — but I kind of knew I was witnessing history — the first graphical interface for PCs. Before that it was all just green… Continue reading

computer, content, Facebook, internet, marketing, pc, public relations, windows

Advertising, Alexa Internet, blog, Business, internet, mac vs pc, microsoft, ms dos, windows, world wide web
October 30, 2014

PR is dead — long live social PR

PR is dead. Did you hear me? The career I’ve been in for 18 years — dead. Over. Toast. Done. It’s evolved into something much more powerful and effective. Social PR. I think that PR and social media are not separate anymore — and are in fact the same thing. I’ve seen social media evolve… Continue reading

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Advertising, Facebook, marketing, media, PR, social media
June 26, 2014

Is Facebook fan page advertising useless?

This week, a controversial Gallup poll declared that social media was all but useless, and that nobody was influenced by social media ads and it was all a bunch of hooey. I was immediately suspicious that results from the Gallup survey were skewed by the print and TV media. Mainstream media are late to the… Continue reading

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mass martket, personal branding, PR, search engine optimization, social media, viral marketing
May 9, 2014

15 free tips to boost your “organic” SEO and get more traffic for your website in the new year.

Advertising is the awareness you pay for. And PR is the awareness you pray for. Today, “PR” includes social media and “content marketing” — and that means “the visual stuff with words on it.” But to make people aware of your content, they need to be able to find it in Google. And this is… Continue reading

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content, end of year tips, new year, seo, social media, social media consultant, social media marketing, traffic, website
January 14, 2012

What makes you influential on social media? (It’s not what you think.)

What makes you influential on social media? Just as in mainstream journalism, great content is key. Great headlines grab the reader. Posting frequently and regularly and being the first to break the news is key. And just as magazines have long known, pass along readership is key to great circulation. But the main thing that… Continue reading

citizen journalism, damage control, Facebook, personal branding, public relations, renegade marketing, schmoozing, search engine optimization, seo, shameless self promotion, social media, social media hysteria, Twitter, Uncategorized, viral

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October 4, 2011

Don’t ignore social media. It won’t go away.

Q: “What’s the worst thing you can do with social media?” A: “Ignore it.” And that’s what most corporations (and small businesses) did in 2009 and 2010. They ignored social media, or they barely paid lip service to it. Business tried to co-opt social media and failed miserably. Businesses tried to ignore social media and it… Continue reading

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A writer, content marketer, publicist and event promoter, I have been helping visionary entrepreneurs and event producers get the attention they deserve for over 30 years.

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Giselle Bisson Visibility Shift

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Remembering Windows 1.0 — 29 years ago today.

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