With social media still being in its relative infancy — Facebook just celebrated its 7th birthday in February — there are still a lot of important questions surrounding it. How do I use it to market my business? How do I use it to reach out to customers? Better yet, how do I use it...
Your company gets plenty of business, you say. You insist that through referrals, print advertising and other forms of marketing, you get more than enough foot traffic, and that it doesn’t matter that you have almost completely ignored your Facebook page. Your company isn’t struggling. Still, you admit that you have just about completely ignored your...
Sitting in a movie theater watching “The Hangover 2″, I hear someone’s cell phone go off. “Turn that off!” I think angrily to myself. Almost immediately following that slight annoyance, I hear a chiming noise from my pocket, indicating I’d received a text. “Shut off your phone, moron,” someone quietly (but abrasively) whispers to me....
It’s long been my opinion that the next step in social media is in connecting people physically and fostering relationships in person rather than over the Internet. Internet is impersonal, some may argue, which is definitely true. Sure, we connect with friends over Facebook, but text conversations and ‘liking’ can only go so far in...
Let me get this out of the way: I don’t like e-mail. And this is coming from someone that might respond to only a handful a day. I know people that easily spend hours upon hours reading to and responding to lengthy e-mails not because they want to but because they have to. To put...
Recently, MySpace was just sold to advertising network Specific Media for $35 million. And, wait for it, Justin Timberlake has also been brought in as a part-owner to help revitalize the dying social network. I’ll let the irony sink in for a bit. For those of you not in the know, Justin Timberlake played the...
Typically, what ultimately occurs when a restaurant is a huge bust in one location is that it closes. Lights out, doors closed. Kaput. Donezo. Recently, though, food has started to mobilize. With the recent food truck boom, businesses (and customers, in turn) have begun to turn towards mobilizing their menus in order to appeal to...
I think we can all agree that social media — for those of us that use it — has had a pretty substantial impact on our day-to-day operations. We tweet, update, and blog our lives away in an effort to appeal to friends, or attract new ones. Whether you’re using Facebook, Twitter or blogs, social...
Over the past few weeks, the notion that Twitter is not the ideal platform for sending illicit photos of yourself to other people has not broken any substantially new ground. In fact, what Anthony Weiner’s scandal only further reminds us is that Twitter — although a great place to express thoughts, interests and other information...
As 2011 marks the 12th year of business for MSM DesignZ, Inc., it is also a monumental year in terms of growth and development. If you haven’t heard already, MSM DesignZ has a new office located at 520 White Plains Road in Tarrytown. Within the past six years, this is MSM’s second location to open in Westchester County, New York. Here at...