Echos from Dreamforce: How Social, Leadership & SMBs Will Drive Our Economy
A few weeks ago, a little event took place in San Francisco that you may have heard of called Dreamforce, thrown by a little boutique CRM company by the name of Salesforce. Tongue in cheek aside, VerticalResponse...
How Much Time, Money Do Small Businesses Spend on Social Media? [Infographic]
We just wrapped up a survey of almost 500 of our small business customers on how much time and money they spend on social media. Here are the results.
3 Ways to Increase Your Pinterest Presence
Just when you thought you’d mastered Facebook for your business, another social media site, Pinterest, comes along vying for your time and attention. You may have been waiting it out, letting others test the...
Blog Wars: WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr – Which Platform Rules?
Blogging is an excellent, and may I say, ridiculously awesome way to engage, educate and connect with your customers/readers/fan following. A blog may be your most prized content marketing asset (aside from email...
Nailed Your Copy? Think Again.
My team and I produce a lot of content for VerticalResponse. In doing so, I also edit a ton of copy. Sometimes after reading the same content for what seems like the millionth time, I have a “Eureka!”...
Small Business Innovators – Back to the Roots
Editor’s Note: We’re constantly amazed at the innovations we see happening in small businesses every day. As part of a periodic series, we’ll highlight some of the companies we think are turning...
Don’t Let Meetings Suck Your Time
Six reasons why I hate meetings, and what you can do to make them more efficient.
Sweet Updates to VerticalResponse Social – Coupons & Clipper
We love customer feedback! Many of you have been using VerticalResponse Social for a while now, and have given us some great suggestions. Our engineers jumped on the advice and made some awesome enhancements to our...
5 Pinterest Knockoffs to Keep Your Eye on
Currently the third most popular social network behind Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest has taken the world by storm. With a simple “virtual” pinboard concept, Pinterest is easy to use, and as you will see, easy to...