Posted on March 30th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
A quick book review of Twitter Power by Joel Comm
Writing a book about twitter must be a challenge considering how temporary things are on the internet. Joel Comm the author of Twitter Power succeeds in his pursuit by being completely up to date at the time of it’s writing. He also wrote in a [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
In this article you will find answers to these questions; what is twitter?, how is it used?, why should I use it?.
Here are some more benefits of tweeting for your business.
- It takes very little time.
- Makes you look like an expert.
- Provides another way to connect to potential customers.
- Is more personal.
- Could be [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
1 Create an email signature with your name, phone number, Twitter username and web page urls. This will enable people to easily learn more about you, It will also provide them with a record of your contact information in their email.
2 Create a twitter account and, to start, tweet once a day.
Twitter [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
The tipping point is about how business’ and people come to a point where they are no longer controlling the popularity of their service or product. It is the point at which the proverbial snowball starts rolling. Malcolm Gladwell uses case studies to show how companies products and brands reach this point of snowballing success.
I [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
I wish I had the time to implement all of the ideas listed in guerilla marketing.
I found this book extremely useful, especially for creating good copy. The authors inspired me to rephrase many of the informational areas of my page to make them more exciting and enticing. They encouraged me to write more [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
Usually when you think of the web it seems like a cold and dark place but if you think about it the web provides quite an intimate experience. Users are generally in their homes on their own computer, they could be wearing pajamas or be completely naked. They can browse your web page [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
If you are looking to learn about social media from the viewpoint of books like think and grow rich and the power of positive thinking then check out trust agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. The book crosses genres by putting the ideas from positive thinking books through a social media filter. [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Kristoffer Benoit
Below are some examples of my poster designs for January, February and March 2010 for the Ship and Anchor pub.
Posters in Black and White are for their Saturday Jams and colour for other events.
I try to draw the content and design for the poster from the event details. I like to keep posters clean [...]
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