
Social Media as a Sales Tool: No Bueno
If I had a penny for every time I saw people treat social media as a sales tool I would be a very wealthy man relaxing somewhere on a tropical beach while sipping on a mixed drink. However, that’s not the case.
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If I had a penny for every time I saw people treat social media as a sales tool I would be a very wealthy man relaxing somewhere on a tropical beach while sipping on a mixed drink. However, that’s not the case.

In a move that not even my telephone psychic could have predicted, Forbes has decided to sell a majority stake in Forbes Media to a group of international investors with the goal of accelerating growth and becoming a global leader.

The sun is finally shining on California again and we can safely say the recession is behind us. In June, that state’s unemployment rate dipped to 7.4 percent and all of the jobs lost during the recession have been restored.

The Los Angeles region is the nation’s fourth largest economy among states, according to new findings from the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, so it should be no surprise to hear that there’s a huge demand for internet marketing consultants in the Los Angeles area.

There has been a lot of talk lately about how distributing press releases online may no longer be effective for SEO purposes, and that Google revised its Webmaster Guidelines to frown upon “links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites.” However, press releases are still good from an SEO perspective and I’ll tell you why.

There comes a time during our wild entrepreneurial adventures when we hit roadblocks and get rejected in one way or another, but you must not view rejection as a negative. Being rejected is what made me successful.

The days of relying on catchy headlines to catapult press releases into PR heaven are unfortunately over, and today it’s important to find a balance between creating a keyword-rich headline and one that’s also compelling.

As a big foodie and social media enthusiast, it’s exciting to see how restaurants are using social media for marketing purposes more than ever before. However, there’s one piece of the social puzzle that tends to go missing: Having an effective, targeted content strategy.

We are pleased to announce that the founder of The Brainchild Group, Aaron Schoenberger, was quoted in an article published on the AOL Real Estate website.

We are pleased to announce that Aaron Schoenberger, founder of The Brainchild Group, was mentioned in an article on Zillow’s real estate blog.

Being OG’s in the SEO game from guiding the biggest companies early on to creating algorithms that were later used by search engines, we know

Search engine optimization today is nothing like it was in the past and old school practitioners are being left in the dust because they don’t

The world is being flooded with “social media agencies” popping up everywhere and after being in the social media game since the early days and

We are living in a world of smoke and mirrors where people show certain things when the curtains open yet behind the scenes they’re absolutely

We recently noticed how YouTube is now integrating key Google Search elements into their algorithms/UI, especially related to the “People Also Ask” section, which we

Many years ago Google made a smart move in acquiring YouTube and it’s interesting how the platforms are very different yet their algorithms have always

The world is an interesting place today with tech changing rapidly and that has led to many internet marketing companies (social media agencies, SEO firms,

We were fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in the early days and it has been an exciting journey guiding

Similar to the financial industry, the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an interesting animal with algorithm fluctuations occurring regularly like the stock market

This is a blog post we had to drop because companies are being gamed by space cadets in the social media marketing world that just