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Lost in the new world of advertising

By Stephen Rhodes More and more, I hear clients talk about being lost when it comes to the latest trends in marketing, meaning, of course, social media. It reminds me of the mid 90s when many small businesses migrated to … Continue reading

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Check your marketing pulse

By Stephen Rhodes Sometimes we think that doing what we always do will yield better results. Often, doing what we always do yields the same results and if you are not happy with those results you need to change things. … Continue reading

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Face time and the whites of their eyes

By Stephen Rhodes It’s easy to get caught up in the hurley burley of Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. When sitting at your desk,  looking for creative ways to invade the online world with your message, it’s sometimes easy … Continue reading

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Build the right network

By Stephen Rhodes For some in the social networking circus, success is all about numbers – followers on Twitter, fans on your Facebook page or contacts on LinkedIn. It’s a myth that you need a large network to succeed. What … Continue reading

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Eating elephant morsels 140 characters at a time

By Stephen Rhodes To build on yesterday’s post about the changing world of marketing , I want to say that most business people I talk with are afraid of Social Media because it seems complex and involved. And it may … Continue reading

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Bedlam in the boardroom

By Stephen Rhodes Emerging trends like Twitter and Facebook cause bedlam in the boardroom. The big brand names so want to be trendy, hip and with it – at least those that view young people as their primary target group. … Continue reading

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The world’s atwitter about Twitter

By Stephen Rhodes On Thursday morning, the world, as we know it, came to an end. I know this because it was the lead item on radio news on the mid-day broadcast. Not the the economic crisis, Iraq, Afghanistan or … Continue reading

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Twittering in Twillingate

By Stephen Rhodes In our recent newsletter ,  I talked about how social media has taken the marketing world by storm and how traditional marketing tools like newspapers, radio and television are struggling in this economy. This idea of trusted … Continue reading

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Doing business unplugged. Yikes!

By Stephen Rhodes One of my clients was recently unplugged for a week. No email, no internet. No blogs. No Twitter. By day three I was detecting signs of withdrawal. Serious anxiety. We talked three times that week. We haven’t … Continue reading

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1984 – 25 Years Later

By Jeff Bowman Eric Arthur Blair had it right all the way back in 1949. Maybe the year was a little off, but he knew that personal privacy would be severely compromised in the years to come. The issue today, … Continue reading

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