Image via Wikipedia Social media can be extremely overwhelming, especially if you’re of the old school business thinking. You’re happy if you can manage your email account, but all these technologies seem a little daunting to master. You wouldn’t jump into a business without a plan, that would be crazy. Spending some real deep thought [...]

Image via Wikipedia Social media has graduated from a fad to a mainstream industry. It’s not only recommended, it’s becoming a necessity. If you’re a business, and you’re not actively engaging in a social media outreach program of one form or another, then you will soon lose out to your competition. Think of it in [...]

One of the biggest things keeping Twitter popular is its huge amount of apps being developed. There are literally thousands of twitter apps. There are apps for every major phone and smartphone. There are twitter apps for the desktop. In fact there are about 50 client apps for each device already. Until now it’s been [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife For business networking, there is no better site than Linked in. Linked in has built in measures to cut back on spam, track reputation via recommendations, and make it so only true contacts can friend other contacts. In other words it’s not a follow buffet like twitter. Being tailored [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Does your Social Skillset end w/ Facebook? When you really look at facebook, and all it can do – it reminds me in many ways of an online dating site back in the day, before I was married. Facebook has photo albums, chat capabilities, profiles, really it’s a glorified [...]

Recently I have relaunched my domain name: PatrickCurl.com to setup myself as an authority on social media marketing, so that I can take my passion for networking into a real career. Where does this leave my 3 year old blog, which also covers social media? I have to admit writing for two blogs does pose [...]

Think Social Media Doesn’t Matter? Think again! A New Study by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research found that consumers are twice as likely to make purchases from brands that they follow on facebook(51% more likely to buy) or twitter(67% more likely to buy). (via Econsultancy Blog) Still think social media is over-rated and over-hyped? [...]

Image via CrunchBase According to Hitwise (via TechCrunch ), Facebook has now surpassed Google as the most visited website on the internet. When I read this I got a bit overly excited, not that I’m a huge Facebook fan, but that Google can be challenged. A part of me hates the big guy and always [...]

Image by fredcavazza via Flickr Jump in the Social Media Pool – The water is Perfect! Everywhere you look your competitors are jumping in on the social media bandwagon. Even your plumber, and housekeeper have facebook fan pages for their business. You’ve decided it’s time to jump in and figure out what Social Media is [...]