Thoughts on the state of social media marketing

My writer friend Meghan recently posted some thoughts on social media’s general usefulness for authors called Does Social Media Sell Books? The consensus seems to be that social media is very time consuming for little pay back, but that you kind of should do it anyway. This has got me thinking about…

Freshbooks, Saul Colt and Word-of-Mouth Marketing

A few weeks ago I attended an unusual event. Freshbooks, the Canadian software company that makes my excellent invoicing software, sent me an email that said something like “Hey Los Angeles! FreshBooks wants to take you to dinner.” I was intrigued and RSVP’d to meet up at The Beverley Center P.F. Chang’s….

Social Media ~ Get in the ring

Below is an email exchange with my good friend Lyle (name changed to protect the guilty), wherein he expresses his thoughts about hiring a marketing firm and getting up and running with

Recommended Reading: Inbound Marketing

Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah This is a great read! So many people feel overwhelmed

Gender, Design and Marketing

This book is very academic and jam-packed with well documented research spanning the past 150 years. The author, Gloria Moss states early on that she feels there are significant innate differences in the male vs. female brain and that males and females have different taste when it comes to design.