Those of you who read this blog regularly know that Lisa Braziel and I have been working on finishing our new book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party: Why You Already Know the Rules of Social Media Marketing. I’m thrilled to tell you that the...
Ignite Social Media is excited to announce the launch of the Follow Me Wordpress plugin. The Follow Me plugin allows you to easily manage and store your social profiles, right inside the wordpress backend, eliminating the need to continue to manipulate coding inside your theme....
Today is the one year birthday of Ignite Social Media. At least according to our Google Analytics account, which shows one visitor – just one – to this site on July 2, 2007. A lot has happened since we first set out that day to...
Jim Tobin, president of Ignite Social Media, will run two back-to-back seminars on how small businesses can use social media marketing to connect on a deeper level with customers and prospects. The seminars are a part of "Business Remixed: the Small Business Conference", on April...
Anywhere near Southeast Michigan tomorrow? Check out WDET-FM, 101.9 around 10:20....
I just wanted to take an opportunity to say hello to everyone. My name is Brian Chappell and I have been involved in search engine optimization landscape over the last 6 years....
Jim Tobin, president of Ignite Social Media, announced today the hiring of Brian Chappell as Sr. Social Search Strategist. Brian joined Ignite, the first social media agency in North Carolina, in mid-February after working to build traffic for e-commerce sites....
We won’t be actively posting anymore in 2007, as Lisa and I are off re-charging batteries. Gene is keeping our site and the client sites up (and quietly improving them as our holiday gifts to you). Comments are, of course, always always welcome....
When you do social media marketing, and when you’re building a social media agency using the tools that you preach about, you spend an awful lot of time checking the analytics, looking at the growth in subscribers, checking inbound links to you, etc. We regularly...
Ignite Social Media was the only social media agency featured this week in a Crain’s Detroit Business story on corporate blogging. You can read the whole story by clicking here, although only subscribers get to see my smiling picture. (I know! Recent enough to subscribe,...