Grow Your Business | Gary Brewer

Posted by Gary in Business on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

by Hartley Riedner With more than 300,000 units sold within the first weekend, the Apple iPad is on track to be as popular as the iPhone (AT&T reported about 150,000 iPhones were activated the first weekend when released in June 2007). In less than three years, the iPhone has changed what the public...

Posted by Gary in Social Media on 06 1st, 2010 | No Comments

By Mashable We already knew that social media marketing budgets were on the rise, but now we know by how much. Forrester Research is out with their Interactive Marketing Forecast for the next five years, and estimates social media marketing to grow at an annual rate of 34 percent – faster than...

Posted by Gary in Featured Articles on 05 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Google is the pre-eminent search engine (SE) with no close competitor. Given that inclusion is free, your Web pages must be in it. We’ll show you how to top the Google SERPs, that is, be found at the top of the search engine results pages. These techniques are known as search engine optimization...

Posted by Gary in Job Search on 05 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments

A candidate recently asked me, “How do I find a hiring manager in a large company like Microsoft?” There are a lot of ways to do this but one of the easiest and best is using LinkedIn. When I recommended this to the candidate he completely agreed, however, the problem was he only had about 60...

Posted by Gary in Social Media on 04 29th, 2010 | No Comments

We are seeing more and more restaurants using Facebook as a way to get more customers. With the new FBML technology we can now build full Facebook Platform applications for our customers that deeply integrate into a user’s Facebook experience. We can hook into several Facebook integration...

Posted by Gary in Business on 04 21st, 2010 | No Comments

By Arthur Chinski, Joshua Mizrahi, Philip J. Wolman, David M. Kozak and Carol L. Lucas April 2010 On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) into law, and on March 30, 2010, signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act...

Posted by Gary in Social Media on 01 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

From John Hadley and The Blog Zone A colleague of mine brought this Slideshare video to my attention and I enjoyed it so much that I’d like to share it with all of you. It really explains the power of social media and how important it is to become a part of this new and exciting way of growing...

Posted by Gary in Social Media on 12 9th, 2009 | No Comments

With holiday shopping in full swing, social shopping is already making a big impact. Data from Hitwise shows that downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both Facebook and Twitter increased 36% and 15% respectively on Thanksgiving from the previous day. Downstream traffic to retailers grew...

Posted by Gary in Social Media on 11 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Consider this: if Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth largest in the world by population, ahead of both Japan and Russia. When I talk to people about using social media to market their business, I usually get one of two responses. Either they love using Facebook and Twitter or they really...