Posts Tagged ‘Robert Jones’
Do you know where your customers are?
This post is by SmartBrief contributing editor Robert Jones. Move over, Groupon. The marketing world has a new darling — several of them, in fact. Suddenly, location-based advertising is all the rage, with Google, Foursquare and other heavyweights experimenting alongside some innovative newcomers. In each case, the pitch is fairly straightforward: We know your potential [...]
Why are entrepreneurs so worried about social media?
This post is by Robert Jones, communications consultant and contributing editor to SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs dread social media. That’s the takeaway from a recent poll of 258 SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs readers, which found that entrepreneurs would choose to outsource social media before any other single business function. Check out the results: If you had [...]
What Twitter search can do for the deadline
Today’s guest post is written by Robert Jones, contributing editor of SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs. Facebook figures I’m worth about $83. At least, that’s how the math works out in its recent $500 million buyout offer to Twitter – which Twitter promptly rejected. Crazy? Not if Twitter is successful in revolutionizing online search, already the most [...]
