April 2011 Greg Magnus on social media marketing - Virginia Dept. of Business Assistance Bulletin

VA Dept. of Business Assistance Bulletin

Last month I presented to a group of entrepreneurs at the Virginia Department of Business Assistance. My talk was on social media marketing. For those interested, the April 2011 VDBA Bulletin includes a brief video that discusses my presentation on social networking and marketing; it is now on YouTube here as well. The event was […]

WordPress Released More CMS

WordPress 3.1 Released More CMS Than Ever

WordPress 3.1 | More CMS Than Ever Before Dubbed “Reinhardt,” WordPress 3.1 is the latest and greatest. And, it is available now. Each release of WordPress is named in honor of the jazz guitarist – in this case, Django Reinhardt. The release features numerous improvements such as: Redesigned linking workflow which makes it fast and […]

Facebook Pages for business marketing

AIMcustom.com: Facebook Pages and Business Marketing

Business Marketing and Facebook Pages Earlier this month, Facebook significantly enhanced the “Pages” functionality for business marketing. If your business doesn’t yet have a Facebook business page, I highly recommend creating one. Social networking is by far one of the web’s top activities as predicted. And, according to comscore.com, Social networking continued to gain momentum […]

Google Art Project | aimcustom.com

Google Art Project

I enjoy great works of art. And, thanks to Google’s new Art Project I can visit museums around the world right from my office computer. This is definitely an excellent use of technology as well as somewhat amazing. Watch behind the scenes footage of the Street View and high resolution captures from the Art Project. […]

Caution | WordPress critical update

AIMcustom.com: Critical WordPress Update

WordPress has evolved into an extremely powerful and flexible content management system (CMS) in addition to the world’s most used and respected blogging software. An enormous community supports and continues to build functionality as well as detect vulnerabilities. And, this week a critical core vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress core. CRITICAL WORDPRESS UPDATE ANNOUNCED […]

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Content Marketing and EzineArticles

While scanning one of my social networks, I noticed that a business friend recently published a few articles on EzineArticles.com. It caught my eye because when I started blogging back in 2005 I used EzineArticles as an article marketing tool as well. For those un-familiar with EzineArticles, it is one of the early adapters of […]

Happy Holidays | Marketing

Happy Holidays – Light Shows to Enjoy

Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday and a joyous New Year! After reviewing dozens of light show videos, here are a few that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Happy Holidays! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSn_FNlK0FY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPFte1SEzg[/youtube] Frank Sinatra – I’ll be Home for Christmas [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYLjEItqsWQ[/youtube] And, to keep the family busy you can always download a video. VIDEO ON […]

AdWords Seminars in DC Dec 6-7

Marketing online is more “science” than “art” as many of us already know. And, if you use AdWords there is stiff competition from the pros. A deep understanding and hands-on-training of the advertising strategies will help you compete. For those interested, Google is hosting two AdWords seminars in Washington D.C., Dec. 6-7, 2010. Where? Hilton […]

Ideas: Small Business Marketing Budgets

This week alone, I’ve spoken to a half-dozen small business owners about their marketing plans and budgets. We talked about their 2010 budget and how they planned to adjust for the remainder of the year based on the results to date. Not surprisingly, few had the internal systems in place to provide hard-data on their […]

Get Out and Get Motivated

The Richmond SCORE Chapter has invited our SCORE clients and volunteers to join us at the Get Motivated Seminar on May 19. And, if you are a SCORE client or volunteer you are invited to attend the seminar free as our guest. The seminar features many big name inspirational speakers like Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, […]