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Re: Appigo – Todo iPhone App

evelinaaa — Fri, 13 May 2011 04:04:02 -0000

I have tried many to do apps. This one is pretty good. Although, finally I found ,,Plan" app. It's all I need. simple,useful and quick. http://itunes.apple.com/us/...

Re: Balanced Marketing – HubSpot

Eric Karaszewski — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:35:10 -0000

David, just came across this post. These are great thoughts and opinions that can help others evaluate HubSpot in an unbiased way. In my opinion, I think HubSpot's great and I like a lot of the ways that they market themselves.

My company also provides an inbound marketing software tool for small businesses that is an alternative to HubSpot. Our tool is called Spectate. Spectate integrates with WordPress, but allows you to use any CMS. We also offer free trials, we don't charge implementation fees, and there are no annual contracts (we charge month-to-month) - Spectate.com.

Re: Social Media in Manufacturing

timber shutterssunshinecoast — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:28:38 -0000

excellent article

Re: 12for12k Global Event #GG24

fertility vitamins for women — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:57:09 -0000

Although the Chicago Blizzard of 2011 was the current event bantered back and forth, it was the global events that brought up deep concern. ...

Re: Are trade shows still relevent?

Jondavis45 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:23:41 -0000

I have noticed companies attending less trade shows, and the shows they do attend their booth size has decrease in size.

Re: HootSuite – in-browser Twitter client

Liam Craven Berry Tea — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:45:43 -0000

TweetDeck dont seem to let me see many DMs!

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Re: Balanced Marketing – HubSpot

Candida Diet — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:40:18 -0000

I have enjoyed using the Hubspot free tools and was ready to sign up for the program but the company either makes you pay to convert all your pages to their CMS at $10 per page or you have to sign up for a one year contract. Either way you are forced to pay $500 up front and $250 every month thereafter.

For me the commitment is all one-sided as I have to take their word on the consulting and the program but they have me locked in to a contract. If the software was all that great then why do they need to tie you into a long term contract?

I was excited to get the program started but for me those were red flags and I am forced to look into other alternatives. It seems to me that Hubspot is more concerned with protecting its retention ratio of 98% (which seems like a false statistic to me now) than actually working with small businesses to provide a reasonable solution knowing they will have to keep earning the business month after month.

It is a matter of time before their current business model no longer works.

Re: Blog of the Week – Planet Neil

Arved — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:28:47 -0000

While I've spent a lot of time on Neil's site, and referred to it often, I don't think his approach is not unique or original. David Ziser has also recommended bouncing on-camera light to provide off-camera lighting. He calls it "The Photon Ricochet." (http://www.viddler.com/expl.... Mr. Ziser, in turn credits Denis Reggie, who uses the term "foofing," because that's how he imagines the sound of photons making as they bounce.

Re: Social Media in Manufacturing

Kate Brodock — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:58:23 -0000

David -

Very happy to find your blog and this post. I'm a social media marketer, and I've just taken over the task of redoing my father's company's website (among other things, as I nestle into my new role), and I'm definitely going to inject some social media aspects into it.

However, I've never worked with a company like this on social media.... it's a copper wire manufacturing plant, in an industry where no one has even thought about things like SEO, let alone blogging.

I'm trying a lot of things out, focusing on driving good traffic and inbound marketing opportunities, increasing the places we're present online, developing, as you mentioned, relevant information for our customers and answering industry questions we see.

Honestly, a lot of it right now is SEO/getting found and customer relations driven.

We'll see how things fall, but I look forward to following you.

Cheers,
Kate

Re: Why Support Eye Care for Kids?

Increase Quality of your Life — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:40:37 -0000

children is foundation of a country. every child musat get eye care. thanks for sharing

Re: 12for12k – Eye Care for Kids

Increase Quality of your Life — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:19:31 -0000

thanks for sharing. that's great article

Re: Are trade shows still relevent?

Trade Show Displays — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:04:26 -0000

There just something to be said about the face to face interaction you get at a trade show. The Internet just can't come close to that, yet.

Re: 12for12k Live!

David — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:44:30 -0000

Great - thank you. I've sent the invite off to Google for you!!

Re: 12for12k Live!

islandsign — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:14:27 -0000

Jon Aston is my Marketing Partner, & has been tweeting about 12for12k for quite some time. As a musician, & someone interested in staying informed, &/or becoming familiar with new technology like google wave, Jon's latest was a tweet worth following, & similarily, Musicians on call is a cause worth supporting.

And the Google invite was an enticing bonus, so I just donated $35 to the cause, under the name listed in the fields below. I hope I got my comment in on time for an invite!

Re: HootSuite – in-browser Twitter client

wholesale kids clothing — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:04:18 -0000

I didn't use this tool before, thank you.

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

David — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:55:37 -0000

I feel it's my job to help keep you grounded with a bit of piss taking from time to time. :-)

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

Danny Brown — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:29:27 -0000

Remind me to holler and ask how chipper you are if you have tooth issues, mate ;-)

I dunno - taking the piss out of me and you still make me chuckle. :)

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

Jon Aston — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:26:11 -0000

Grateful! We're grateful!

I agree. Won't happen if we don't make a point of it. So let's make a point of it. Somewhere central(ish), to all of us perhaps, or at some event we might all want to attend.

XOJA

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

David — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:24:08 -0000

Why thanks Jon. To be honest hanging out with you guys is a pleasure. I hope we all get the chance to have a beer together one day.

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

David — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:56:03 -0000

Thanks Beth. You know though, although she might not have intended to, I really believe Barbara helped us out.

She brought the 12for12k community closer together, a good thing when we are embarking on this #GG24 adventure.

She allowed a lot of our supporters to highlight all that is good about what we are trying to do here.

Because of her, 12for12k had a really high profile on Twitter and the blogs today. I bet a lot of people learned of us for the first time and I hope some will stick around and become active supporters.

There is a chance that Barbara might end up taking a constructive approach to 12for12k and it looks as though she has the background to really help us. It shows what a guy Danny is because I think he would be happy for this to happen (even if he was was a miserable git today, using his tooth as some kind of excuse!)

Never a dull moment eh?

Cheers!
David

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

Jon Aston — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:36:19 -0000

David:

If I had half of your wit... well we'd both be halfwits.

Great post, excepting one tiny little omission: You! I understand you are a humble man, but your readers deserve to know that you give oodles of your time and expertise to #12for12K and that the rest of us are very grayeful for it!

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

bethwarren — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:02:46 -0000

Great post David!
Agreed with you on many points (including the "what was she drinking?") .. that anyone could attack Danny or his intentions or anyone else associated with 12for12K struck me as very odd. And yes, I too think there was some self serving on her part.. and yes, to see so many rise to the defence is awesome.

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

David — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:33:11 -0000

Thanks Danny; I thought you handled this whole (rather odd) situation very well. What makes it even more strange is that any ideas she has that would make 12for12k more effective would have been welcomed.

In any case, I didn't have much time to contribute much because I was on the road most of the day, but the 12for12k stream was a happening place today!

Thanks Barbara!!

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

Danny Brown — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:20:01 -0000

I'll go with Rich, fella. You have a unique way of making things come together, and you do it with typical UK humour. ;-)

It's an evolving process, and one that is always looked at - here's to continued learning from all sides, and to making a real difference as we go on.

Cheers bud!

Re: I Love Barbara Talisman!

David — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:18:48 -0000

Thanks for the nice comment Rich.

I thought the whole episode was rather bizarre and I still don't understand the motive. These were clearly not views she seriously held since she backed down as soon as there were some rebuttals.

No, if all these Danny Brown defenders become 12for12k supporters and contributors...