What’s the Grab Bag blog for, you ask? Well, we come across so many cool things on the web that are worth sharing, but aren’t marketing related that we need a place to dump them. Ergo, the Grab Bag. Enjoy!

Now that you are doing social media and have a few followers/fans, you might be feeling like you are on the right track, and you are…sort of. Social media is a tool that is to be used as part of your overall online marketing strategy, not as a mainstay. It is a smarter approach to [...]

We’ll just lay it out there…If you see a flawless Yelp profile it’s most likely manipulated in some way.  As professionals, we can spot a concocted Yelp profile in about a second (bunched reviews, all positive, similar writing styles, etc.). I think consumers just feel something is off when they read page after page of [...]

Websites are always in flux, so when you are building your website, get it 90-95% there, go live, then come back to it.  Don’t get stuck on the small details.  If you do, it’s even money that you’ll still be stuck in 3 months.  It’ll never be perfect.  It will never be complete.  In fact, [...]

Set aside 10 minutes a day no matter what, to work on your business.  No matter how busy you are, make the time to improve your business a little every day.  Write, research, implement…find something to improve and do it.  In the long run you, and your clients, will be better off for it.

Here’s a link to a great Intellectual Property Blog from an Orange County Law Firm. A humorous yet intelligent perspective on this practice area. Enjoy!

Great example of user engagement on YouTube…Enjoy!: http://www.youtube.com/samsung3devent

We get asked this question (or some form of it) all of the time by our older clients…”Does social media really matter or it is just hype?” The short answer is yes, absolutely. For a longer answer, here goes: Three or four years ago we weren’t sure whether social media would come into a prominent [...]

If people could convey 3 things about your company to their contacts, what would you want them to be?  Are you working to ensure they are carrying that message?  One EMR / electronic medical record provider has this nailed down: Simple. Seamless. Secure.  Great message.  Very transferable. Very sticky.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em…50 Worst Stimular Projects: http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=e1e0624e-d02a-42d4-9dbb-f5b9f21b3572

Heard a great quote…as best as we can remember it went something like this: Ideas are worth about $20.  “Execution is all that matters.”  …Something good for all of us to remember.