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If you haven’t already heard, Spandy Andy and I have been sharing free videos in a new project called the Social Media Star Formula. It’s basically a training program that Spandy & I decided to set up because we get more and more people asking us questions on how we got so many views on [...]

“Hi, I’m Bonnie Brooks, President of The Bay.“  How many times have you heard that on the radio?  Well, if you’re in Canada, probably A LOT.  The unmistakable commercials by the President of North America’s oldest department store, HBC (Hudson’s Bay Company, better known as The Bay) has been making bland, straight-to-the-point radio commercials for [...]

I love deals.   To the point that it’s almost an obsession. I can’t buy anything for full price anymore and I buy too many things that I don’t really need just because they’re on sale. So when I found out Groupon was coming to Vancouver I had a mix of excitement and fear.    If [...]

If you want to get famous online then you obviously want people to notice you and talk about you.  It also helps if once in a while they’re saying something nice when they’re doing the talking.   Well, I was lucky enough to meet Alisha Mann at a Twitter networking event (yes, those actually exist [...]

Last month I wrote a blog post about putting up a video on YouTube video to find the owner of a camcorder that was lost during the Olympics.  In the video I showed some footage from the camcorder and asked viewers to share it around through Facebook & Twitter in hopes that I could somehow [...]

I live in Vancouver where of course the 2010 Winter Olympics are happening right now.  It’s an exciting place to be with lots going on and tons of people everywhere.  During the Opening Ceremonies I tried to get into a big outdoor venue to watch the show with a few thousand of my closest friends [...]

When you write something on Twitter you should be asking yourself “is this something people would want to retweet?”  If not, you might want to start thinking about that for at least some of the things you’re tweeting. What makes a tweet more retweetable?  Well, according to Debbie Weil at Mashable, there are five things [...]

It’s that time of year… the time when everyone sets New Years Resolutions.  There’s the usual losing weight, eating better, exercising more, etc., but this year my goals are all based around this blog, my YouTube videos, and Internet Marketing in general. Up until now I’ve been posting about once a week on this blog [...]

I’m a fan of John Chow.  Never heard of him?  Well, he lives in the same city as me and makes his living from his blog.  And a really good living at that.  A year and a half ago I read about his story in Entrepreneur magazine and thought it was pretty darn cool that [...]

Have you ever noticed how many people the stars on Twitter actually follow compared to how many are following them?  There’s a huge difference… often hundreds of thousands or even millions are following them and they’re following back a few hundred at best. So how can you get famous people to actually follow you?  The [...]