More than a month ago, we featured a post about the paradox of self-promotion. This paradox describes, that although social media frowns on self-submission…
[…] the sheer numbers of new videos, posts, sites, pictures, and stories appearing each and every day, [means] self-promotion is a necessity for anyone starting out and hoping to gain any sort […]

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You have two choices:

Begin utilizing social media as part of your overall marketing strategy.
Don’t use social media and watch angrily while your competitors put you out of business.

Which do you chose?
We at Pandemic Labs have been preaching this evangel since the formation of the company. Don’t worry, we are not nearly so arrogant […]

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When was the last time you were truly captivated? What was it that captivated you? Was it a performance? A charismatic speaker? A person’s eyes? A piece of music? There are many things it could have been, but I bet I can tell you what it wasn’t: a piece of marketing.
Let’s face it, marketing and […]

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More questions than answers regarding the acceptance of plagiarism in social media.
The other day, I visited my favorite social news site, Mixx, and saw something that sparked a lot of questions in my head. It was an article, quite popular on Mixx in the few hours it had existed, that had an interesting title. The […]

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One of the best sites you can join to connect with other bloggers is Blog Catalog. PandemicBlog has had the good fortune of being able to sit down with Tony Berkman and Oscar Tijerina of Blog Catalog to discuss their past, their new widget and the future of the site itself. This is the second […]

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There are countless guides about increasing the popularity of your blog. More or less, they are all concentrating on socializing, participating and of course creating quality content. Indeed, these are the most direct methods of getting your work noticed. These techniques are more or less taken for granted for everyone who has been in the […]

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Thirty years ago, there were generally four traditional ways to get in touch with your target audience:

Television
Radio
Periodicals
And Outdoor or billboard advertising.

I think it goes without saying that times have changed. Websites can be created in minutes with Google Pages. Information can be monetized with Squidoo. Teenagers have invented a new, short character language to use […]

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On February 19th I posted an article called “The Paradox of Self-Promotion with Social Media.” I was honored by the success of the article. The post made the front page of Digg, became popular on Mixx, and sat atop a couple of keyword lists on StumbleUpon. This attention was valuable not just because of the […]

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This is a guest post by Jacob Morgan of Jacob Morgan’s Marketing Blog.
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As marketers and spammers (granted they are not the same, their objectives are similar and sometimes marketers inadvertently become spammers) continue to penetrate the social media marketing platforms, we are going to notice that social media platforms will begin to segment. In […]

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