As the Social Media Guy: I want my website to go viral. How do I do that?
A: Viral is a term that's easily misused: it can't be planned, and it can't be predicted. it can only be hoped for. Besides, a site won't go "viral," only content can do that. Be careful not to...
View ArticleHey, We Can Quit Anytime We Want To.
Let’s get this straight. We would never, ever advocate that you use this. Spring Creek Group is in no way suggesting that you even think about doing anything that would keep you from religiously...
View ArticleSkittles Tastes the Social Media Rainbow
Ok, Skittles. So you’ve successfully gotten online users to spend an inordinate amount of time in the past few days talking about Skittles. The interest of fruit-flavored candy lovers, as well as that...
View ArticleHot Off the Digital Press: www.springcreekgroup.com goes live
If you're reading this post, you probably have noticed there's something different about the Spring Creek Group site. Perhaps the fact that you can see all recent Spring Creek Twitter feeds-- not to...
View ArticleNon-Profits We Like: Technology Access Foundation
Yesterday morning, the SCG team attended the 8th annual fundraising breakfast for one of our favorite non-profits, the Technology Access Foundation. TAF is an organization that was founded with a...
View ArticleFacebook's Legitimacy Problems: Are You Who We Thought You Were?
A recent post outlined steps Facebook is taking in requiring page owners to prove their connections with the brands they represent on the ever-growing social networking site. What does this mean for...
View ArticleBake (AKA Embed) Your Tweets and Eat Them Too
Last week, Twitter released a new “hack” feature (http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/) that allows tweets to be embedded in websites, blog posts, and so forth using html. No more screen grabs, no...
View ArticleSocial Media Goes to Washington
Wouldn’t it be cool to live in the times when government was simple? When you knew all the issues that were out there and you could put in your two cents. That was like 200 years ago but those were the...
View ArticleThe Tosh.0 Effect
Surely by now most of you have heard of the relatively new show on Comedy Central show, hosted by Daniel Tosh, called Tosh.0. It airs every Wednesday at 10:30pm and has the main premise of...
View ArticleFashion in a Flash: Amazon ventures into Event Sale E-commerce
Riding the wave of successful flash deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial, Fashion e-commerce websites dedicated to daily deals that flaunt their invite-only “exclusivity” are becoming...
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