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Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes. Corpus Christi, Texas (LOC)

Making a trip to the soda fountain fun

Terrior is is a French term used in wine making that loosely translates to “a sense of place.” It refers to the fact that the same chardonnay grapes grown in different vineyards (or even separate parts of the same vineyard) can produce noticeably different wines because each set of grapes will absorb different amounts of sunlight, minerals from the soil, and be subjected to unique weather in each region.

The concept of terrior offers tons of ideas for social media marketing. What makes where you live or work unique and fun?

  • Is your corporate office a 100-year-old converted sugar plant/movie theater/train station?
  • Do you offer a product/service/meal/experience that’s truly one of a kind (be honest)?
  • Is Wrigley Field/Empire State Building/Eiffel Tower up the street from your office?
  • Can you get awesome green chili/cheese steak sandwiches/clam chowder/barbecue ribs from the hole-in-the-wall restaurant in your neighborhood?

What unique places do people go out of their way to track down when they visit your hometown? Share those insider tips with us. That’s interesting stuff we’re not going to find in the guide book from the airport bookstore.

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The Best of Times and Worst of Times: Nike Golf’s “Earl and Tiger” Ad

April 8, 2010

I have two takes on Tiger’s first new ad with Nike Golf after all that’s happened over the past six months. It’s a pretty even split for me. The Best: After I screwed up as a kid and everything cooled down, my dad would always try to look for a lesson to be learned. It [...]

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How to Market Your Business on Facebook

February 19, 2010

If the users of Facebook were citizens of a country, all 400 million of them would make up the third largest nation on the planet. And with over 50% of them logging into the site every day, developing a Facebook presence or maximizing your existing page is becoming an important part of the overall marketing [...]

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How to Get Your Business Started on Twitter

November 17, 2009

Twitter encourages you to post short, 140-character status updates (“tweets”) that are sent to the people who have chosen to follow your messages and to the rest of the Web. Twitter is a great way to stay connected with customers, vendors and colleagues and send brief bits of relevant information to those who are interested [...]

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SyFy’s Ghost Hunters Offer a Great Social Media Case Study

October 6, 2009

If you’ve been thinking about getting started in social media but are not sure what to say, check out a few episodes of the SyFy Channel’s show Ghost Hunters for inspiration. Why? Because Jason, Grant and the rest of the TAPS crew are a great examples of being interesting by just creatively explaining what they [...]

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Interview with Evan Williams & Biz Stone of Twitter at the D7 Conference

September 3, 2009

I love listening to people explain their take on their own stuff.  This is an interesting interview (even if the two hosts are kind of cantankerous) with Evan Williams & Biz Stone, the two main public faces for Twitter. Highlights: Inspiration for Twitter came from software written for taxi cab dispatch messages. “And we thought [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk’s Secret to Social Media Success: Work Your A$$ Off

August 30, 2009

I’ve found that when businesses think about getting started in social media, a lot of time is spent debating and planning strategy. Are we trying to build brand recognition? Is Twitter going to be a new customer service channel? Is the content for the Facebook page going to be strictly business or should we mix [...]

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Ways Twitter Has Made Me A Better Person – I Notice More Cool Stuff

August 24, 2009

As someone who’s been active with Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites on an almost daily basis since 2008 (to my wife’s sometime chagrin), I thought writing about what I’ve gotten out of my efforts would be a good blogging execise. (Tip of the hat to Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh as this post is [...]

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Does Public Art Have a Responsibility to the Public?

May 8, 2009

What do you see in the picture to the right? Not the white suspension bridge…the other thing. Any guesses? A pile of calf’s livers? A collection of kidney beans shaped like a man’s naughty bits? That is a sculpture called National Velvet by John McEnroe and is a recent addition to Denver, Colorado’s collection of [...]

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