AimWest :da Vinci Style Marketing

Today I participated at  AimWest as one of the Pannelist. It was a great group and event. The topic was “da Vinci MarketingCreativity with a business purpose.” The pannelist were: Barry Nowak Director of Shared Intelligence for Metrics Reporting, Inc., Bill Oechsler, Founder and President of XLER | Marketing & Brand Communications,  Paul Ferrier, Co-Founder of [...]

Company Buzz on Linked In

Recently LinkedIn has added some additional capabilities to its application. It is added “Company Buzz” which monitors what people are saying about you on Twitter. This is a great tool and provides you with basic trending data. You add it directly to your profile and it displays the results. It is also customizable allowing you to [...]

Bad Hotels

Social Media can help your business if you are really good but it can hurt you if you are really bad. Check out these bad Hotels Byte or get bitten! Social Media Analytics       

Viral Video You Can’t Do It

“Clients complained that their agencies — creative, media, public relations, design and others — typically treat social channels like blogs as traditional media. In other cases, their ideas are not backed up by practical skills in the area. What’s more, one client pointed out that his agencies have little of their own experience using social [...]

Social Media Marketing is Different

Social Media Marketing is a challenge for most organizations. The challenge is understanding that Social Media Marketing is different. It is not about the Great idea that you had. It is about acting on the needs and concerns, the topics of interest of our target consumers. It is about listening and responding appropriately. Then once [...]

16 Rules of Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a method of promoting you blog and increasing subscribers. It is similar to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for blogs. The term was coined by Rohit Bhargava and he initially created 5 rules. Others have added rules and to date there are 16 rules in total. Here are the 16 Rules: Increase your [...]

LinkedIn Groups Enhancements

This Friday August 29th, 2008 LinkedIn will be adding some major enhancements to it’s groups page, which just may move it one steps closer to giving FaceBook a run for it’s money in the battle for being the Social Media platform for Businesses. The Groups section in LinkedIn is a way to create online Business Networking [...]

Michigan FaceBook Statistics

FaceBook is growing and becoming the online location for Business Networking. We all know that networking is important for any business. Michigan need to do a better job and growing through Social Media. ManoByte is here to help in this regard. Here are some interesting statistic regarding FaceBook and Michigan Usage. Number of Michigan Users of [...]

100$ for Joining Visa’s FaceBook Page

Towards the end of June 2008, Visa unleashed a Power FaceBook page. Visa understands Social Media and they are reaching out to Small Businesses through FaceBook. This bold move on the part of Visa is very significant. Unlike American Express, who missed out on the opportunity to buy PayPal before it became an eBay company, [...]

Growing West Michigan Through Social Media

Yesterday Laura Bergells and I taught a Social Media Marketing Intro class at ITT Tech. We had a really good turn out and there was a lot of enthusiasm in the air. We are planning on doing future class so stay tuned! Byte or Get Bitten!