Posts for danny brown


Is Social Media Crowdsourcing Making Us Lazy?

From Danny Brown
January 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm
You’ve become lazy. You’re no longer smart. You’re a shadow of the clever person you really could be. Don’t feel bad – I am too. We all are. We used to be questioning; ... (more)

Help Me Choose a Name?

From Danny Brown
January 22, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Beginning on Sunday January 30, I’ll be running an ongoing series on the blog that answers a new question each week from you, the readers. It might be on strategy; marketing; ... (more)

What I’d Like to See From Location Based Marketing Services

From Danny Brown
January 21, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Location based (or geo-located) marketing is getting a huge amount of buzz at the minute, as Twitter apps connect location tweets to its service, Foursquare is credited with ... (more)

Is Your Marketing Message Being Diluted by Automated Advertising?

From Danny Brown
January 20, 2011 at 8:27 pm
This morning, I received the latest post from a popular blogger via the blog’s email subscription service, which runs on Feedburner. The post talks about marketing and how ... (more)

Stop Playing the Sympathy Card

From Danny Brown
January 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Being in business for yourself is difficult. Sure, you don’t have to answer to a domineering boss. Nor do you have to venture to a drab office on a biting cold day to be ... (more)

The Philosophy of Social Media

From Danny Brown
January 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Ancient philosophers believed life could be broken down into six different directions: Above, or Heaven – this reflects your dreams and hopes. Below, or Earth – this is your ... (more)

Why a Blog Disclaimer Is Just as Important as a Disclosure Message

From Danny Brown
January 17, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Last week, I spoke with Joe Hackman about blogger ethics and transparency (you can listen to the podcast here), and one of the things we chatted about was the topic of disclosure. My ... (more)

The Psychology of Being Memorable

From Danny Brown
January 17, 2011 at 10:00 am
Consumers love simplicity. We don’t want to be confused with multiple messages and options. We just want to buy the product or service that we need at that time and have it ... (more)

The Most Powerful Weapon in the World

From Danny Brown
January 15, 2011 at 12:18 pm
This is a guest post from Debbi Morello. It follows my recent post about child privacy and safety online, and draws on Debbi’s personal experiences to offer her take on ... (more)

Tell Us Your Social Media Success Story

From Danny Brown
January 14, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Over at Bonsai Interactive Marketing, we’re currently putting together our next ebook to join the likes of From Stats to Strats and others. And we’d like you to star ... (more)

Stepping Outside Social Media and All That Jazz

From Danny Brown
January 14, 2011 at 12:51 am
So this post has absolutely nothing to do with marketing. Nothing to do with social media. Nothing to do with PR, or communications, business or blogging tips (unless you count ... (more)

Because You Need To

From Danny Brown
January 13, 2011 at 5:46 pm
A lot of questions often get the same answer. Why do I need to be on social media? Because you need to. Why do I need to blog? Because you need to. Why do I need to make videos ... (more)

Could This Be Your Child?

From Danny Brown
January 12, 2011 at 2:49 pm
First off, I make no apology for the image used for this post. It’s taken from the website Child Sex Tourism, which aims to combat the child sex slave trade and, while this ... (more)

Discussing Blogger Ethics with Joe Hackman

From Danny Brown
January 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Blogger ethics and transparency is quite a big thing around here, as well as many other places online. I’ve written about it a few times, and commented on other posts around ... (more)

Why You Won’t Like This Blog

From Danny Brown
January 11, 2011 at 2:19 am
I had a few emails (and 14 unsubscriptions) after this blog post I wrote yesterday. The emails I received expressed the sender’s dislike of the post, saying that if I didn’t ... (more)

Why We Can’t Give Up

From Danny Brown
January 10, 2011 at 2:39 am
Sometimes you want to just throw in the towel and give up. Sometimes you look around and see nothing but smoke and mirrors and a bunch of crap that you know to be nothing but ... (more)

How Social Media is Teaching Us to Give Again

From Danny Brown
January 9, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Back in the 80′s, there was the yuppie movement. Short for “young upwardly mobile professional”, the term represented everything that was bad about greed and personal ... (more)

Why Your Social Media Strategy Sucks

From Danny Brown
January 7, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Social media is crap. Social media is a waste of money and time. Social media can’t be measured so we’re just wasting energy. Social media doesn’t offer lead ... (more)

The Influence of Trust

From Danny Brown
January 7, 2011 at 12:42 am
What is trust, exactly? Is it the same for everyone, or can it be different? Can trust in a celebrity, for example, be as strong as trust in a friend or family member? It might ... (more)

Ideas Are Gold

From Danny Brown
January 6, 2011 at 2:12 am
Ideas are gold. Ideas are the platforms for greatness. Ideas are the moments in time that will find the cure for cancer. Ideas are the ingredients that become a recipe to feed ... (more)

The Question of Longevity

From Danny Brown
January 4, 2011 at 2:16 pm
If you take a look at a list of the oldest businesses in the world, you’ll see the glaringly obvious fact that the majority of the companies listed are Japanese. Germany ... (more)

Are You Making Yourself Attractive Enough?

From Danny Brown
January 4, 2011 at 12:48 am
What’s your take on corporate talk? You know, the words that never seem to go out of fashion when you read a news release, or a job description, or a What We Do page on ... (more)

Protecting Your Assets

From Danny Brown
January 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm
My friend and business partner Troy Claus wrote an interesting post the other day, looking at personal versus professional branding. It raises some great questions about focus ... (more)

Calls and Actions

From Danny Brown
January 1, 2011 at 9:50 pm
We all know things are tough at the minute. Businesses are laying staff off or closing down altogether, contractors are finding less clients and people are finding it hard to ... (more)

Lessons from 2010 and Finding Focus for 2011

From Danny Brown
December 31, 2010 at 11:00 am
The great thing about year end is that you can take stock of what happened in the previous 12 months, and look at ways to avoid mistakes and build on successes. This is true for ... (more)