Posted by Milena Regos on Nov 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Overnight success with social media
Sliding on The Cheap turned to Out&About Marketing for help with social media. Kevin Tinto, a great businessman and founder of Sliding on The Cheap could see the potential for using social media for his business. His website, http://slidingonthecheap.com offers discounted skiing and snowboarding lift tickets, ski&stay packages, ski deals, ski shop sales, ...
Posted by Milena Regos on Sep 14th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Burning Man is an amazing phenomenon. It’s the kind of event that you have to witness to understand. It’s Disneyland for adults. A mix of Moulin Rouge and Mad Max. It’s incredible and inspiring. It’s crazy. It’s a wild dream. And in the chaos of it all, there is clarity. And there’s sense. Organization. Amazing logistics to make it all happen. In this post, I’ll...
Posted by Milena Regos on Aug 8th, 2009 | No Comments
I just read this post about Quicksilver and I want to share it with you. It brings home the fundamentals of starting a business:
Look for a product or service that is already successful
Start small
Find your niche
Ignore the naysayers
Excellent quick reading for people interested in how Quicksilver started.
Posted by Milena Regos on Jul 9th, 2009 | No Comments
The new Evian Live Young Campaign is funny and engaging
Evian just created a remarkable and clever campaign with a social media component to it. The Evian Live Young campaign was just released today. The video on YouTube had 323 views as of the writing of this blog. I think the campaign is funny and memorable. The break dancing was done by adults. Babies bodies and faces were used in the commercial....
Posted by Milena Regos on Apr 17th, 2009 | 4 Comments
YouTube has become an important part to any social media campaign. It has also proven its effectiveness in making or breaking a brand. I’ll give you 3 examples from the past few months that if nothing else should clearly show you the importance of YouTube to any brand, any company and any person. YouTube is not just videos posted by teenagers and viewed by their peers. YouTube has become a lot...
Posted by Milena Regos on Apr 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Have you seen Susan Boyle’s performance on Britains Got Talent Show? Amazing!!! The performance is all over the news right now. You can also watch the video here if you haven’t seen it yet or watch it directly on this blog.
As of this post the video had 1,578,735 views. Susan’s goal was to perform in front of a large audience and she did it so well that jaws dropped. The judges...
Posted by Milena Regos on Feb 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Hi, my name is Milena Regos and I’m starting this blog to put in one place all Internet marketing, web 2.0 and social media marketing tools and lessons in today’s economy. The Internet is changing daily and the gone are the days of web 1.0. We are all entering a new phase online in which conversation, dialogue, honesty, authenticity and transparency are becoming more prevalent. Gone are...