For Some Mom & Pop shops with Little or No ad budget, Twitter Serves as Main Marketing

July 23rd, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

My super friend Samantha Keeping (who made the office I LIVE IN look fab so I am continually inspired to rock the web!) sent me a great NY Times article called Mom-and-Pop Operators Turn to Social Media.
I wanted to share this with you wild web readers who may ask, “Why should I use Twitter?” or think …

Posted in Ask the Marketing Therapist, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Web Marketing Tips

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A Biz Card is NOT an email Opt In!

March 20th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

It’s my blog and I can rant if I want to….
I just returned from a lovely unwinding staycation in my hometown of Santa Barbara, California (I did, of course, sneak in two speaking gigs like a good she-geek in between days off!)
Yes, I may be suffering from mild post staycation depression as I am rewinding, probably because my rewind has involved a way-too-long unromantic …

Posted in Email Advice, Email Marketing, Marketing Interventions, Tough Love, Web Marketing Best Practices, Web Marketing Tips

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The Art of Relationships (and what Valentine’s Day can remind us about Marketing)

February 15th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the WMT Wild Web Women professed our love to marketing man crushes and in the process of expressing our emotions, had a therapeutic “a-ha” about Valentine’s Day and web marketing.
Valentine’s Day is a day focused on expressing a mutual exchange of love.  Love for partners, friends and family may be …

Posted in Ask the Marketing Therapist, Blog, Daily Inspiration, Free Therapy Advice, Marketing Interventions, On the Couch, Tough Love, Web Marketing Tips

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Web Marketing Intervention – JUST DO IT

February 11th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

Web Marketing can be mass mix of websites, search, online advertising, blogging, social media, strategic partnership, e-mails, technology, videos – shoot, I could spend an hour just blogging about all the execute-ables that can make up web marketing.  But since this blog post is about Just Doing It, I will be short and just do …

Posted in Ask the Marketing Therapist, Blog, Blog Babe Tips, Free Therapy Advice, Marketing Interventions, Tough Love, Web Marketing Mantra, Web Marketing Tips

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Tough Love Web Marketing Dose of the Day – Shut Up

December 3rd, 2008
by Lorrie Thomas

Wanna get Smart? Then SHUT UP

After two back-to-back marketing therapy meetings with Nicki (Data Diva) and Emilia (Client Treatment Specialist) I had my “ah-ha” blog post revelation.  In the first meeting, we were in the trenches of intense, unsexy, ick, yuck web marketing data then moved into a gargantuan paid search assessment (a Google …

Posted in Comic Relief, Free Therapy Advice, Marketing Interventions, On the Couch, Tough Love, WMT Team News, Web Marketing Best Practices, Web Marketing Mantra, Web Marketing Tips

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