I’ve moved, come visit at Ahead of the Curve

I’m officially moved. After exploring most of the major blogging platforms I’ve settled on Squarespace…and wish I had made the move sooner.
With the move will come more post about what gets me excited (outside of triathlon and endurance sports of course!) – social media, marketing and technology.
The blog title, Ahead of the Curve, reflects [...]

Bing advertising with Google Adwords

Saw this advertising on an economic research site today and found it interesting. Microsoft’s new search service, Bing, being advertised via Google’s Adwords

How Twitter Saved Me 80 Dollars

I’m in the process of training for Ironman Lake Placid. It’s my 2nd time doing the race and prior to my first race I did a training weekend to prepare. It was incredibly helpful last time, so I decided to do it again for this year’s race.
I made reservations at a reasonably priced hotel for [...]

Check out the new blog

I’ve been fortunate over the past couple of months to have the opportunity to help the company I work for, Direct Capital, launch their company blog.  At this point I’m the primary contributor but expect to have others from the company contribute to the conversation.
Please take a moment and check it out. Being a finance [...]

For me, Twitter search is replacing Google

I’ve become a huge iGoogle fan. I venture to guess that I have an iGoogle tab open for 90% of the time that I’m on the web. Some of my favorite modules include Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar and Google Hot Trends.
Today I happened to see Bo Jackson was the number one hot topic.  I [...]

The fate of radio advertising?

A friend recently sent me the ad you see below.  It was an advertising promotion for a radio station in my area in which they were giving away free 30 second spots to area businesses.  Is this the fate of radio advertising, and for that matter, other interruption based advertising mediums such as television, cold [...]

Listen, add value

I caught an exchange on Twitter recently that summed up my sales philosophy, both what I have practiced and currently preach in my role as a corporate sales trainer.  Listen, add value. The context was referring to successful corporate twitter strategy.  You can see this reference mentioned several times in the Twittersphere. It’s such a [...]

Social media and the salesperson

When looking at all of the content around social media being published to the blogosphere everyday I can’t help but notice that much of it is centered around the organization or company.  What should the company do to increase involvement in social media? What role does the marketing department of a company play in leading [...]

How do you stack up against the Fortune 500?

Check out a post I co-authored on the Hubspot blog titled “How Does Your Company Stack Up Against the Fortune 500? Better Than You’d Think”.

Thanks @comcastcares

I’ve been on Twitter for a little while now and have used it primarily to connect with others who have similar interests – triathlon, social media, sales profession, etc.  During my time on Twitter I have also read about businesses utilizing Twitter in creative and unique ways, though most of those business have been of [...]