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VisibleU Co-founder on WBAI 99.5fm This Friday

Published on April 14, 2010 in Events and Webinars, From Visible Shops, In The News and from HTI. 0 Comments Tags: Business, Gabriel Blau, internet marketing, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, new york city, Radio, WBAI.

Hear VisibleU.com co-founder and Online Marketing Strategist on WBAI 99.5fm in New York City or on the web at stream.wbai.org this Friday, April 16th at 10:30. The show is “You and Your Money” hosted by Susan Lee (freelancetaxation.com)

We know you just can’t get enough of him, and he loves to talk so, you know, listen to the show, and call in!

You’ve got a business, be it services or a product. You’re not doing much. Your phone isn’t ringing. Paying your rent is getting difficult. You have no money for advertising. How can you get the word out? We’ll be speaking with Gabriel Blau, marketing consultant and co-founder of VisibleU.com who will discuss how to get your name and news of what you do out there.

Tune in, call in, and support your favorite Internet Marketing personality!

What Happens When Your Future Boss Finds You Online?

Published on October 5, 2009 in In The News, from HTI and social media. 1 Comment Tags: blogger, bosses checking up on employees via facebook and twitter, cisco, cnn, cnn.com, don'ts, facebook, funny, funny stories about social networking, how facebook can get your fired, how social networking can hurt your career, humor, ipod, kevin colvin, Networking, paul wilson, social media, social networking, social networking dos and don'ts, status updates that got people fired, tim levad, top 10 tweets to get your fired, tweets that got people fired, twitter, updates, what not to say online.

Sometimes you get fired. Before you get hired.

That’s the subject of a recent article on CNN.com, titled “How social media can hurt your career.”

In it, gory details of how job seekers ruin their chances of gainful employment by prematurely posting unflattering status updates and sending Tweets that have led to rescinded job offers, reprimanding at work and pink slips.

Not all of the examples are tragic, however. Some are quite funny. Depending whose side you’re on.

Like this Tweet, for instance, from a potential Cisco employee who wanted the world to know about a recent job offer:

“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work,” read the Tweet.

Not missing a beat, Tim Levad, a “channel partner advocate” for the company, responded: “Who is the hiring manger, I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the Web.”

Ouch!

And the pain without gain doesn’t stop there.

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Are You an Annoying Facebooker?

Published on September 7, 2009 in In The News, Networking, from HTI, social marketing and social media. 1 Comment Tags: am i an annoying facebooker, annoying facebookers, are you an annoying facebooker, cnn, cnn.com, dos and don'ts of facebook, facebook, Facebook Inc, farmville, javascript, josh levs, Networking, social networking, the downside of social networking, the most annoying things about facebook, things about facebook that drive people crazy, things people hate about facebook, video.

For all the wonderment that comes from Facebook – we’re hooked on FarmVille! – there are even more annoying aspects to the popular social networking site. Like all the app requests you receive on a daily basis. Virtual chug, anyone?

But for all of Facebook’s idiosyncrasies, none are more annoying than the people who use it.

In the video below (after the jump), CNN correspondent Josh Levs unveils the 12 most annoying types of Facebookers. Watch it and ask yourself if you fit into one of these categories. Chances are, you do. Even we’re guilty of committing a couple of these Facebook “crimes.”

Can’t win ‘em all…

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The Good & Bad of the 'Twitter Effect'

Published on August 3, 2009 in In The News, Viral Marketing, from HTI, social marketing and social media. 0 Comments Tags: ashton beats cnn in twitter war, ashton kutcher, ashton kutcher reaches 1 million twitter followers, battle, blogger, blogging, bruno, bruno meets early demise because of twitter, celebrity endorsements of twitter, cnn, cnn.com, comic-con, community, district 9, entertainment weekly, how web sensations are born, is tweeting for the birds, jordin sparks, microblogging, peter jackson, sasha baron cohen, SEM, Small Business, social media, social media marketing, the power of twitter, the twitter effect, tweeting, tweets for treats, twitter, twitter in business, twitter success stories, using social media marketing for small businesses, using twitter to build your business, video, what can twitter do, winner.

Way back in April, we published a post titled “Is Tweeting for the Birds?” That was when Twitter was just becoming the phenomenon it is now – thanks to lots of press from celebrity endorsers.

Our open-ended question to you then – despite the star-studded brouhaha over the brand – was if you thought Twitter would become a relevant and reliable tool for marketing businesses on the Internet.

It seems – and our apologies to the naysayers – that the answer is yes.

Several months have passed since Ashton Kutcher and CNN famously duked it out for the most Twitter followers (Ashton won) – and the celebrity endorsements have consistently subsided (and, in fact, some of those same celebrities who sang Twitter’s praises have threatened to turn on the microblogging service if it went through with a rumored Twitter-based TV program).

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Coffee Break: Google, Google, Gmail, Bing Vs. Google, Blogs on Paper, and Michael Jackson doesn't crash the Internet

Published on July 9, 2009 in In The News and from HTI. 6 Comments Tags: applications, bing, Blogs, Blogs on Paper, Chrome OS, font, Gmail, Gmail Beta, google, market share, microsoft, new search engine, nytimes, nytimes.com, results, search engine, simplicity, social networks, StatCounter, video, Windows.

I’ve got six goodies for you today. Google just announced a new operating system based on their recently released web browser, Chrome. Is it a threat to Windows? They also recently removed a little word that’s been hanging around your Gmail screen since you joined the tens of millions of users of that popular email service: “Beta”

Just to transition away from a heavy Google news day, we’ve also got a review of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, which was launched about a month ago, and how it compares to Google. David Pogue seems to be quite smitten, but the numbers aren’t in Microsoft’s favor. Since launch, Bing has been hovering at around 3% market share, while Google is still at around 89% (source: StatCounter). But just because it’s the little guy doesn’t mean it’s not great.

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