Stacey Rynders is a freelance writer that specializes in brand copy, public relations and strategic communications. This blog provides marketing tips, promotes events, and details professional and client successes.

Internet: Too Much Free Speech?

Yesterday brought the news that Google was being forced by a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger, who was “talking trash,” about Canadian-born model Liskula Cohen on a blog called Skanks in NYC. The blog has since been taken down, but the samples I’ve seen of the copy were [...]

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Make A New Media Strategy

I am a definite advocate for strategizing and planning your social media marketing before jumping head-first into these forums with your business at risk. For the most part, social media can be harmless, but it also puts your business and brand image online for a full exposure.
Janet Jennewein provided me with a great resource [...]

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Twitter: Second Largest Web Site Traffic Driver

I’ve sat around at dinner parties debating whether or not Twitter is a passing fad that will be gone in a year or a social networking tool with some muscle. I’ve been arguing that it is great for directing people to Web sites… And yesterday, a TechCrunch tweet confirmed that I was right. Twitter is [...]

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Facebook- 8th largest country!

When it comes to social media marketing, I constantly hear clients say, “I just don’t get it. Who has time?”
Now, I admit that I came to social media with the same attitude, and for a long time, I ignored social media too because, like my clients, my days were crazy full with other details [...]

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Twitter Marketing: 15% one-day sales hike for pizza joint

“In a test run April 23, an exclusive-to-Twitter promotion brought in 15% of the day’s business.” – Advertising Age article

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Only 1% of Web sites Mobile Ready?

Discussion at last night’s Gateway Interactive Marketing Association meeting was all about mobile technology. Mobile video. Mobile Marketing. M-Commerce. Is the mobile wave here yet?
The answer to that question was varied, but the one resounding statiistic tossed out for consideration is that only 1% of all Web sites are mobile ready. Compare that measly [...]

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Gender & Social Media Use

The Collective Thoughts blog writer Ryan provided an interesting supposition on his observations of the gender differences in the use of social media. Perhaps the most intriguing element for me is that the assertion is that women tend to discover the usefulness of social media and more adeptly integrate it into their lives instead of [...]

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Popular Commentary

In perusing Standing Partnership’s blog post by Marijean Jaggers, I discovered that Dooce.com is allegedly “the most popular single-author blog in the English language.” Needless to say, I was curious, so I clicked the link – something I highly suggest you do as well. It’s hilarious. From a bathroom rehab in the third trimester [...]

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Microsoft Competes With Twitter

Microsoft Releases Twitter-like Product, called “Vine”
By: Rob Hubert
The once innovative and dominant company from Redmon this week announced their plans to start a public beta of it’s Twitter-like “notification system”, called Vine. I don’t really understand why they would invest in this type of a product without a clear return on investment. Twitter is [...]

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“7 Tips for the Perfect Twitter Profile”

Thanks to tSunela, one of St. Louis’ best SEO companies, for the twitter on this great article from IMedia with Twitter Tips. To continue to receive helpful SEO and social media management tips, follow tSunela. Here’s a preview:
Article Highlights:
* Use your real name and a real picture to highlight a human [...]

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