@12most Founder @Seanmcginnis Shares his SEO Secrets

Sure, content is key, but you need to drive traffic to your website too. Sean McGinnis and Dan Newman co-founded 12most, a website driven by guest-posts from talented writers and bloggers around the world who want to share the “12 most [xyz]“. When he isn’t developing explosively successful websites on his smartphone at a rooftop [...]

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How To Reach Hips & Lips? Jockey Doing So With Bloggers

Go to http://blog.jockey.com/ and the first thing you’ll often notice is customer feedback that’s been amplified on Jockey’s blog. They love it, customers love it–it works. Now, next steps: work to facilitate more third-party feedback from influencers, i.e. the bloggers. Jockey is putting ever more emphasis on reaching out to the blogger community in multiple, [...]

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Interview w @msichicago ‘s Lisa Miner on Month at the Museum

We’re extremely excited to have Lisa Miner, Director of Public Relations for the Museum of Science and Industry, at this year’s Social Media Masters’ Summit. Lisa will be speaking about the MSI’s innovative “Month at the Museum” contest, which is currently in its second year. Lisa was kind enough to sit down with us and [...]

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Brandlink Communication vs. @thebloggess – Lessons in pitching bloggers

By now, you’ve likely heard about @TheBloggess vs. @brandlinkcomm. More likely is that you have heard about it, you agree that the way Brandlink Communications handled the situation is going to go down as an example of one of the biggest PR snafus in history. Don’t Say ANYTHING Electronically You Wouldn’t Want the World to [...]

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#smms Update: Just added @jockey & @calumet blogger breakfast & @daniellesmithtv book party! http://bit.ly/rre6KT

HOT NEWS: We just added two VERY cool session to our summit line-up. This event just keeps getting better every day. Space is limited so register NOW! Blogger/Influencer Breakfast sponsored by Jockey and Calumet Photo Meet with brand representatives from Jockey and Calumet while you enjoy breakfast with other bloggers and social influencers. After breakfast [...]

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VIP Bonus Day Announcement!

VIP Bonus Day Announcement!

Happy Wednesday! We’ve been patiently waiting all week to tell you about the newest little trick we have up our sleeve, and YOU, as our loyal mailing list members, are the first to know all the details! Windy City Social is proud to announce our VIP BONUS DAY for the 3rd Annual Social Media Masters Summit! What does [...]

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Social Media Week Chicago – Tuesday, September 20th

Revving up for the rest of the week.  Very excited for our own Social Media Week Event, in Partnership with Social Media Club Chicago (with Social Media Icons @Broadwaychicago, @cubsinsider @chicagofed @mccormick_place)   Here’s where the Social Media Masters Crew will be today.  Hope you can join us: Tuesday, September 20th 9:00 am They Said [...]

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Social Media Week Chicago – Day One Recap

Huge kudos to the Social Media Week team for orchestrating an amazing week of events.  I wasn’t sure what to expect, but was completely impressed with the day one sessions and am looking forward to the rest of the week.  Here’s a quick re-cap of the day and learnings from the sessions I attended: When [...]

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#gdgt Chicago Event – Recap of our Favorite Products

First off, thank you to Barry from gdgt.com for inviting me to their VIP event.  I attended gdgt Chicago last year when it was over at the current home of the Craftsman Experience.  I was blown away at the number of cool gadgets, but was there as a general attendee and wasn’t able to spend [...]

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How to get an HP TouchPad for $99

How to get an HP TouchPad for $99

If you haven’t hear by now, HP is discontinuing their HP TouchPad and selling them at the deeply discounted price of $99 for the 16G version and $149 for the 32 gig version. Thanks to @jwilly for the news that Best Buy had originally intended to send them all back to HP, but instead decided [...]

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Winning Blogger Brand Campaings from top Brands at EVO Conference – Day 2

Winning Blogger Brand Campaings from top Brands at EVO Conference – Day 2

This is day two of my favorite marketing campaigns / Products from the EVO conference.  Don’t forget that we are giving away a pair of New Balance – True Balance running shoes – $85 value!! Get your chance to enter by sharing this post on FB or Twitter. If you share on Twitter, please use [...]

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EVO Conference – Product and Campaign Reviews

EVO Conference – Product and Campaign Reviews

Product reviews and campaign reviews for my favorite EVO Conference Brands

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