Make Your Small Business Rock on Facebook

Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 2, 2011 · 7 Comments

Share This is a guest post written by my friend Erno Hannink, whom I was fortunate to meet at Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker’s SOBCon Event this past spring. And by the way, if you’ve not yet explored SOBCon, being held in Chicago on 4/29 – 5/1, you should. To a lot of people, Facebook [...]

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OK Go. Smart AND Using Their Power For Good

Posted by Shelly Kramer on September 21, 2010 · 5 Comments

Share I’m addicted to OK Go, I’ll just admit that right up front. I like their music, I like their movies, I like their style. Oh, and I love the marketing magic they so adeptly employ. Yesterday, when I saw that they were releasing their new song, I scooted over to YouTube to check it [...]

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My Debut: Video Blogging. I Really AM a Dork.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 24, 2010 · 80 Comments

ShareWe all have our strengths. One of mine is words. I love them. I love thinking about them, rolling them around in my head, lovingly putting them into sentences, crafting paragraphs out of sentences, arranging, rearranging, editing, massaging, making them perfect. I love words. I also love speaking. Big groups, small groups, one-on-one one, you [...]

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Dear Internet, Here is Our Invoice

Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 30, 2010 · 10 Comments

Share Today at SOBCon one of the event sponsors, the great folks at Intuit, had the brilliant idea for an exercise for the group. The challenge: Come up with a list of things you want to bill the Internet for. It was a perfect example of the great things that happen at SOBCon – the [...]

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Why I’m At SOBCon

Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 30, 2010 · 8 Comments

Share I’m in Chicago, hanging with my buddy Erika Napoletano, of Redheadwriting getting ready for Day 1 of Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker’s signature event, SOBCon. For those of you who don’t really know what SOBCon is, rest assured, you’re not alone. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve run into during the course [...]

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