Posts for danny brown


Opening Up Social Media for Local Small Business

From danny brown
March 8, 2010 at 10:50 pm
While becoming more mainstream, social media still holds fear for many businesses, especially small local business. Fear of time involved; fear of where to start; fear of where ... (more)

Why the Headway Premium WordPress Theme Kicks Ass

From
March 8, 2010 at 12:18 am

When it comes to the Headway premium WordPress theme, there’s no question I’m incredibly biased about what it can do for bloggers.
I’ve written about it more

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Big Business Needs to Think Smaller

From
March 6, 2010 at 5:01 pm

Here’s a question for you. If you’re in business, how do you treat your clients?
Or, to look at it another way, how do your clients treat you?
Is it with respect and shared

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Celebrating Mountains

From
February 27, 2010 at 9:31 pm

How do you overcome your mountains? The challenges you face both in business and personally – are you dealing with the small mountains to overcome the big?
There’s a fairly

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Why Simple Works – Free Ebook

From danny brown
February 23, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Sometimes, as marketers and/or business owners, we over-complicate matters and offer so many facts on ideas and products that none of them stick. Sometimes, the simplest of ideas ... (more)

Little Green Men

From
February 21, 2010 at 2:53 pm

In 1947, a businessman from Idaho named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine strange disks of light in the sky while flying above the Cascade Mountains in the US.
While his experience

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An Invite to Pimp Your Blog

From danny brown
February 19, 2010 at 12:34 am
So this week’s been really quiet on here, due to a particularly busy project over at Maritz Canada. Now that project has at least resorted to more normal activity levels, ... (more)

Untapped Episode 1: Stupidity Tries

From danny brown
February 14, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Untapped is a weekly video blog that looks at everything and anything. Not just social media; not just business; not just blogging; but more the human voices behind these and more. ... (more)

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 4: WordPress

From danny brown
February 11, 2010 at 9:47 pm
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Why I Want to (And You Can) Help a PR Pro Out

From danny brown
February 10, 2010 at 9:00 am
There’s an event taking place on Friday February 19 called Help a PR Pro Out, or HAPPO. Organized by two people I’m proud to call friends, Arik Hanson and Valerie Simon, ... (more)

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 3: Building Blocks

From danny brown
February 8, 2010 at 9:50 pm
This is the third part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Last time ... (more)

Introducing DANgerous Liaisons

From danny brown
February 7, 2010 at 2:29 am
Okay, so first, apologies again for the no-show of part three of the Social Media Hub series. I’ve been snowed under with a lot of 12for12k stuff, so I apologize sincerely ... (more)

A Slight Intermission on Blog Comments Respect

From danny brown
February 4, 2010 at 12:53 am
Hi guys. So today was meant to be the third part of the 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub series. This will appear tomorrow, as something’s been chewing on ... (more)

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 2: Decluttering

From danny brown
February 2, 2010 at 1:47 pm
This is the second part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Yesterday ... (more)

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

From danny brown
February 1, 2010 at 1:59 am
This is the first part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Social ... (more)

Next Week – 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub

From danny brown
January 30, 2010 at 2:45 pm
As the title of this post mentions, next week’s going to be a little different here. Instead of the normal posts, you’ll find 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social ... (more)

Why You Should Hire Matt Cheuvront

From danny brown
January 29, 2010 at 5:51 pm
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Audi and the Super Bowl Social Media Shit Storm

From danny brown
January 27, 2010 at 5:26 pm
German car manufacturer Audi may be about to enter a PR shit storm, thanks to the naming of their social media campaign in the run-up to their Super Bowl ad. The campaign is based ... (more)

Help Yourself to Help Your Clients

From danny brown
January 27, 2010 at 12:30 am
There’s a great scene in the movie Jerry MaGuire . In it, Tom Cruise’s sports agent character has finally lost it with his one client (a football player brilliantly ... (more)

Taking Your Blog Mobile with BuzzVoice

From danny brown
January 25, 2010 at 10:40 pm
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Digital Storytellers: My TEDx Ottawa Presentation

From
January 23, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Last month, I was incredibly honoured to speak at TEDx Ottawa. The shared ideas that came out on the day from the other speakers and the attendees was nothing short of amazing.
My

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The Future is Now

From danny brown
January 21, 2010 at 11:32 pm
I’m not usually one to get too excited about buzz. Very often, buzz is simply over-hyping what can’t possibly hope to live up to the claims in reality (I still recall ... (more)

Is Blogging Dead? Yep, That Old Chestnut Again

From danny brown
January 21, 2010 at 10:56 am
Almost as regular as Tia Tequila’s shameless self-promotion efforts, the question of blogging being dead keeps springing up. I’ve spoken about it before (my take – ... (more)

Change and Persistent Vision

From
January 19, 2010 at 1:21 am

“The lesson is that one person with a persistent vision can make change happen, whether climbing rocks or delivering services.” Seth Godin, Tribes.
That sentence relates

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The Real Cost of Social Media

From danny brown
January 17, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Social media is free. Social media is inexpensive. You don’t have to outspend your competition. Social media saves time. Social media will save your business thousands, if ... (more)