A few months ago I put together a short tutorial on how to add a Welcome page to your Facebook fan page. The tutorial centered around adding a small image to the Wildfire iframes app. I have received quite a few comments on my Facebook fan page and from YouTube on how to add a [...]
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Secure Your Facebook Account
A few days ago MSNBC website ran a story on how hackers using stolen username and password credentials try to break into at least 600,000 Facebook accounts every day. This is a huge number on its own, but when you put it in context with Facebook’s 800 million users who log in 1 billion times [...]

YouTube Should be Part of Your Social Media Strategy
Youtube is the number two search engine right behind Google (go figure). Everyday 3 BILLION VIDEOS are viewed on YouTube everyday. Why? For me personally and I’m sure thousands of others would rather find a video on how-to fix a widget then read pages of text on a web page. What Type of Videos In my [...]

It’s Hip to be Square – QR Codes
If you got your hands on the latest Security Management magazine and flipped through a few pages you might have noticed these little quirky squares on a few of the ads. These squares are called Quick Response Codes or QR for short. QR codes were created in 1994 by Denso Wave a subsidiary of Toyota [...]

NutShellMail – Monitor Social Media for Your Business
I’m often asked what tools I use to monitor or manage social media. NutShellMail put out by Constant Contact is one such tool. I’ve been using it for the last few months and I’ve got to honestly say I think it’s great. NutShellMail is a free tool that aggregates all your social media connections into [...]

My Twitter Commandments
Twitter is a great social media network where you can connect with folks you don’t know from Adam, and yet you can chat about subjects that you are passionate about. For me that’s social media, internet marketing and the security industry. Often times Twitter is misunderstood and has received this bad rap that it nothing [...]

OK, You’re on Twitter – Now What Do You Do?
So you’ve finally decided to set up a Twitter account for your business and now you are staring blankly at the Twitter website asking yourself what do I do next? Here are some tips and advice to help you and your business on Twitter. Who to Follow? Click on Who to Follow. There are three [...]

Brown Coffee Company – Lessons Learned
You might have heard about the Brown Coffee Company (Brown) tweet earlier this week and whether you agree that the tweet was misinterpreted or not, the point is – it took less than 140 characters to virtually destroy Brown’s brand and lose significant clients. Immediately after the tweet started circulating in the blogosphere and social [...]

Top 5 Reasons Why Your EP/Security Business Needs A Social Media Strategy
What is social media? Social media put plainly and simply is public conversations within established networks. These networks are made up of your friends, peers, colleagues, clients and potential clients. These networks or channels have various names such as Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, LinkedIn etc. Each is unique and useful in varying degrees to executive protection [...]

Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile – Top Ten LinkedIn Tips
LinkedIn is the largest professional network with over 100 million users worldwide. You can read more stats over on LinkedIn’s About Us page. So to help you get noticed, stand out among the large crowd, and get that dream job here are my top ten LinkedIn Tips to optimize your LinkedIn profile. Complete your profile [...]









