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Jack Can­field asked to inter­view me recently on the topic of social media. I did the inter­view but stressed that I really DISLIKE being asked to talk about social media mar­ket­ing. I con­sider the whole social media mar­ket­ing indus­try over-hyped.

I’m one of the most-in-demand speak­ers in this space (as I write this I’ll be in […]

WARNING: This post is not for the “good enough” minded. Why stop at good enough when you can push for great, lever­aged, or bet­ter yet, inte­grated?
I started toy­ing around with social media early back in 2005. I didn’t real­ize it at the time, but I was just hav­ing fun throw­ing aim­less punches blindly in the […]

Lately, we’ve been pretty busy behind the scenes work­ing on putting together some­thing new and rev­o­lu­tion­ary.
I’ve already unveiled a great deal of this stuff at an exclu­sive, pri­vate event. How­ever, some of the basic tricks were already pub­lished here in this blog.
In this post, you’ll find a list of those use­ful tricks com­piled for your easy […]

A few weeks ago we started help­ing one of our part­ners set up a suc­cess­ful pres­ence on Face­book. His name is Burt Gold­man, The Amer­i­can Monk.
I’m guess­ing he’s prob­a­bly the ONLY 81 year old monk with more than 1,000 true friends on the social net­work, which brings me to my story.
Owen Thomas, a blog­ger at Val­ley­wag (the […]

Lately we’ve been hav­ing fun test­ing some new cool social media mar­ket­ing strate­gies here at Mind­Val­l­ley Labs.
Here’s what hap­pened dur­ing this time.
Our very own Ken­neth Yu needed to raise $10K for a 5-cow dowry to wed Laura, his beau­ti­ful Zim­bab­wean bride.
The dowry is an impor­tant tra­di­tion where Laura comes from.

Now, to come up with the money, Ken­neth successfully […]

I got a mes­sage from a friend of mine on Face­book. The mes­sage told me to check out a par­tic­u­lar blog on AOL. I clicked on a link and ended up briefly on the AOL blog site…
…but then that page refreshed and I saw this.

Why would Face­book be ask­ing me to reen­ter my pass­word?
I glanced the […]