Fluid's Big Idea Blog is a place for the observation and collection of thoughts on design, creativity and business.
02.18.10 John Dye
Listen more than you speak. Most of us can relate to this one from our person one-to-one interactions with others. Seeing the results in social media is less about marketing promotion and more about engaging your target audience in a conversation. Listen and respond to your customers, and you'll create that valuable relationship we always ...
02.12.10 John Dye
We recently had a chance to present real estate social media seminars to realtors and other members of the Washington County Board of Realtors in St. George, Utah.
We really enjoyed meeting with the good folks in Southern Utah. Our sponsors, United Title Services, were great as well!
Some key principles to consider:
-By the time a prospect contacts ...
01.26.10 John Dye
Here are some great tools we have found for real-time web analytics:
SEARCH TOOLS FOR TWEETS
Topsy: A search engine powered by tweets
Daily RT: Summarizes the most popular retweets (RTs). The more you are retweeted, the more influence you probably have. By viewing RTs, you ...
01.21.10 John Dye
Tux or no tux at the awards banquet? That is the question.
Fluid Studio was nominated for the Davis County (Utah) Chamber of Commerce Innovation Award (mainly for our work in the social media realm and the outreach we have had with businesses training them on these topics in seminars).
We could use some more hardware in the office (can't everyone?). Keep ...
12.19.09 John Dye
WordPress/Twitter Integration
WordPress has enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. Users can write a status update and post to a WordPress.com blog, have it displayed in the blog reading view and change what blog the posts go to. If geotagging has been enabled, the geolocation data gets exposed as well....
12.5.09 John Dye
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has followed up on its 2007 and 2008 studies of social media usage by the Inc. 500. Adoption and awareness continue to trend upward, with 91% of firms using at least one social media tool in 2009 and three-quarters describing themselves as “very familiar” with social networking.
10.12.09 John Dye
In an article entitled 9 Tips For Marketing Your Restaurant With a Facebook Business Fan Page, Mark Ijlal provides some great tips for restaurants and eateries hoping to use Facebook to increase clientele. Here is his list of 9 suggestions (slightly altered) that he gave to a friend who ...
Blogs, Business, Facebook, Social Media News, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
09.30.09 John Dye
Facebook just announced Translations for Facebook Connect, a new free tool that will help webmasters to translate their websites and web apps to all the languages supported by Facebook.
The technology is based on the same solution Facebook developed for itself when it decided to make the site available in ...
08.26.09 John Dye
Fluid Studio recently gave social media training to many Utah CEOs involved with CEObuilder.
It was good to meet with Rich and Steve from CEObuilder and the great group of CEOs that were able to attend.
We spent 4 hours talking about social media (like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn) and other resources that can help improve web traffic. Even though ...
Blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Social Media Marketing, Social Media News, Social Networks, Twitter, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0, YouTube
08.24.09 John Dye
Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, and former Forrester analyst, started her own company, the Altimeter Group.
We all know with the advent of social media like Facebook, youTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter, marketing is changing. Marketers today can be mired in a jumble of buzzwords that have little meaning behind them. Marketers need to rethink strategies and start thinking about relationships ...
Real-Time Web Analytics | 
Fluid Studio nominated for Davis County Chamber of Commerce Innovation Award | 
9 Great Tips For Marketing A Restaurant With a Facebook Fan Page | 
Facebook Translation Tool! | 
