With the launch of the recent #MBTweetRace by Mercedes Benz USA, everyone is talking about Road Trips. Yes, it seems like all of Twitter has Road Trip Fever. Now, I'm not so arrogant to say that I invented road trips, but I will be so arrogant to say that I have mastered the art of combining Social Media with road trips. (At least for me...) With so many people being familiar with the original Social Media Adventure that I in 2008, and the follow up in 2009 I'm getting asked a lot of questions about what I did, how it worked, etc. One question that comes up often is a very simple one: How do you keep your business running while you're traveling across the country in your shiny yellow car? Fair question, isn't it? Some Secrets To Life On The Road I have a load of Four-Hour-Work-Week type secret weapons that help me keep life rolling along. Here are a few of them: TimeSVR - Not your ...
Read MoreI had to see if the rumors were true. They weren't. "Those rumors", referring to all the buzz on the internet - including the Wall Street Journal - about AJ Bombers (A restaurant & pub in Milwaukee) being a really cool place to hangout and eat good hamburgers. Well, it's not so much that the rumors were false, per se, ...
Read MoreI recently read this awesome case study on How To Use Foursquare To Draw A Crowd Into Your Restaurant (or any local business for that matter) by Steffan Antonas (@SteffanAntonas). The case study outlined how AJ Bombers - a burger restaurant in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin - capitalized on the Foursquare Swarm Badge to bring in a whole lot of customers to their location at a time that ...
Read More"Hey, don't I know you?" I asked as she handed me her business card. "Ummm, that depends... who the heck are you?" she replied. :) "I follow you on twitter!" I exclaimed as I recognized her. Yeah, it was really cool... Today, while attending T. Harv Eker's Millionaire Mind Intensive in Denver, Colorado, I met Michelle Mangen (@mmangen) of The Virtual Asst. Even cooler was hearing her ...
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