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Becoming a reddit Internet sensation
What it took me to become a 72-hour reddit celebrity, from Saturday night through Sunday afternoon, is not a secret at all
Quickening my 5k time week after week at #cc5kFridays
After nursing my aching lumbago and missing race 3 of the Crystal City 5k Fridays series of races, I stopped exercising for two whole weeks and returned for week 4.
Outside-In Marketing Book Review
This is an interesting book because it's written by enterprise-level Search Engine Marketing (SEM) geniuses. They eat big data for breakfast every day.
The Last American Wizard: Day of the Dragonking
This book is like taking an acid trip right before taking a guided tour of Washington, DC.
SOCi allows me to load up on topical social content and then let go
What makes SOCi so perfect for me is that whenever I post something to my bandit 9Round Penrise Square bandit accounts, they always look really nice unlike those terrible posts that people drop into places like Facebook and Google+ where the stupid URL is in the post, where it really shouldn’t be, at least on Facebook.
My giant wallet could be giving me sciatica!
Not long after I started this blog I pinched my sciatic nerve and then wrote Fighting sciatica and fascial adhesion with a massage stick.
Nice mention in GaggleAMP: The secret weapon of online influence
Thanks to JD Lasica for including me in his latest post on Socialmedia.biz
Biznology in the 2016 Online Community Influencer Index
Proud to see Biznology included in this article on the B2B News Network.
Influencer outreach is more PR than marketing or advertising
Remember, if your campaign doesn’t check all the boxes of being a publicity, PR, or buzz campaign, it won’t work as an earned media campaign.
Unique locations deserve unique profiles
Where it's happening is as important to the increasingly location-aware internet as that it happened at all.
Member of the Concept2 Million Meter Club!
I’m actually really proud of this. Hard work. A million meters rowed. Next: 2 million meters!
Take your bloggers and social media influencers to lunch
Take your social media influencers to breakfast, coffee, lunch, drinks, dinner, nightcap — you decide what’s appropriate.
Take your bloggers and social media influencers to lunch
Come on, don’t you think the thankless job of blogging passionately about a topic for free, persistently, over months and years deserves at least some face time and maybe a coffee, a burger, a bourbon?
DIY Influencer Marketing Webinar Slides
Here are the slides from the webinar I just did for Biznology that I uploaded to SlideShare
In praise of being dead last in a race
As I told you last week, last Saturday I ran the Four Courts Four Miler. I finished!
Influencer marketing should not be about collecting influencers
The worst thing about the internet has been the commodification of friendship
Running my first road race this Saturday!
OK, I have been working really hard. Every weekend, my girlfriend and I run three or four miles together, though it's been since 2012 that I have last run a 5k race.
The state of the blogger outreach union ten years on
The state of the union of blogger outreach is good for brands and agencies but great for the bloggers and online influencers
Build a page and profile for absolutely everything
If you have multiple locations and/or multiple products, you need to create social media channels for every single one of them. If you have several 9Round franchises in Northern Virginia, you need to have a Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and Foursquare/Swarm profile for each one. Why? People are mobile.
Why you need 3,643 domains just like President Donald J. Trump
We in the business call this armoring — and too few high-wealth individuals, high-profile individuals, brands, politicians, celebrities, companies, or families ever spend the small sums of money, over time, in the front end to do this sort of crisis preparation.
Spicy new orleans shrimp recipe
My girlfriend spent an hour hunting this down from the millions of delicious recipes that she tracks down and hunts down every day
9Round: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:27:19: Wahoo Heart Strap
I started trying to wear my old Wahoo heart rate monitor strap and their Wahoo app to communicate my almost daily workout to someplace else.
Ricotta gnudi from scratch recipe
Last night my girlfriend and I went out to dinner at Brabo, an Alexandria, Virginia, fine-dining establishment, to celebrate the two year anniversary since my girl dodged death from a brain aneurysm that never happened.
Audience Lab is a secret weapon for political advertisers
Audience Lab is a secret weapon for political advertisers who are interesting in only reaching their target audience surgically every time instead of wasting time, money, and goodwill by firing for effect at best and carpet bombing at worst.
Buy domain names for all your pages, products, and services
Infomercials, major Hollywood pictures, and President Donald J. Trump are doing it, so should you.
Two muddy laps around Roosevelt Island together
I'm lucky enough to have a girl who wants me to be healthy and fit and also goes on training runs with me, too.So, we jumped into the CRV and headed out to Theodore Roosevelt Island for a couple laps, for about 3 miles, around and around. I quite enjoyed it.
Review of StrideBox subscription box for runners
I've been a StrideBox member since October 2, 2013. And I have always been amazed and amused by the variety and creativity of testers products for runners.
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