Austin is eCommerce
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
by SEO'Brien
Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that 3 of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub * WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine * eCommerce, as Volusion wraps up $35M with Silicon Valley Bank Though, I’m glad
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The Plea for the Press to Evolve
Monday, 25 February 2013
by SEO'Brien
With a couple years in Austin, TX, and a former 12 in Silicon Valley, I’ve had an exceptional experience working with distinctly different entrepreneurial communities. Each has a little bit of a grass is greener complex going on – Silicon Valley sees Austin as hip, less expensive, up and coming, entrepreneurial more than “startup,” but
- Published in Industry, Local, Social Media, Startups
Want to learn Twitter? Silicon Valley Tweet Up – July 23
Friday, 03 July 2009
by SEO'Brien
Simply, a tweetup is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person… to twitter (okay, so I added that last part but its true! Bring your iPhone and TweetDeck!). Take a few hours off and come connect with online friends; put a face to the name (er… Twitter profile) over more
- Published in Brand Marketing, Conferences / Events, Fun, Social Media
Increasing your Twitter Followers – Comment here
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
by SEO'Brien
Though only in beta, FIDDYP’s word press plugin WP-Twitip-ID is a brilliantly simple innovation enabling blogs to add Twitter profiles to users’ comments. The commenting systems on blog platforms are entirely limited, at this point, to the promotion of a reader’s website, limiting engagement by way of this dynamic communication platform. Twitip adds a Twitter
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0
Connect with Facebook
Thursday, 08 January 2009
by SEO'Brien
Well I have spent the better part of the holiday designing and wrapping up a new site. Interpreting my blog’s title, you might imagine my last name to be O’Brien, that is unless you make the mistake of interpreting my name as Brian with the SEO… you get the idea. To be sure, I am
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0
Easier way to love Twitter and Facebook
Thursday, 18 December 2008
by SEO'Brien
…. If you are anything like me, you have dozens or hundreds of active bloggers that you like to follow. Combined with friends and family, coworkers, and witty peers, you can quickly find yourself under a mountain of updates, pokes, and tweets. Worse case, you become overwhelmed and abandon the platforms entirely. Dozens of twitter
- Published in Social Media
Do you Send your Traffic Away?
Friday, 07 November 2008
by SEO'Brien
An interesting question was recently asked of me, “do you have a Facebook group for you business and do you send people from your site to the Facebook group?” Personally, Facebook is fantastic for creating a community, separate from your site and brand. In much the same way that there is, perhaps, no better recruiting
- Published in Social Media, Web 2.0