Josh Carr



mapping your twitter friends with Yahoo pipes
2008.11.19 23:51:22
So yesterday we went a little crazy with the sproutmarketing twitter account (you can click on that link to follow us). We took all the sproutians twitter accounts and looked at who they were following and then invited those people to follow sprout proper.

It worked great and many of the people we were following also followed us.  But I think we went a little too crazy because the they shut us down for a while. So if that link at the top isn't working try again tomorrow :)

This is what you really came to see.  This is a map made with yahoo pipes that will show you where your twitter friends are located.


Click here to build your own.




Tags: Twitter | web 2.0 | Web | Marketing | Yahoo Pipes | yahoo | Mashup | Social Networks | Social Media

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Amazing Video with Eric Schmidt
2008.11.19 10:59:27


This is an amazing interview with google ceo Eric Schmidt. 

The Future of business a conversation Eric Schmidt

My favorite quote from the video:

"You can have a long tail strategy but you better also have a head because that is where all the revenue is."


I don't think this statement conflicts with Chris Andersons ideas on the long tail because each trend will have it's own head and it's own tail.  For example I have a friend that runs a profitable website that sell clogging supplies. He will never show up in search for "dance" but he doesn't even want to.  He does want to show up for "clogging," "clogging shoes," etc. he wants to be the head of that microtrend.

Think about how this applies in your online business (all businesses are now online businesses - that fact is impossible to ignore).






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Crowdsourcing your keywords and customer research
2008.11.07 23:26:31
I have been trying some interesting new tools for keyword research and I think it could spill over into voice of customer research as well.

In this example I am building a tag cloud from a twitter search for "marketing"

Tag Crowd

 



So you are thinking "great josh more geeky stuff that I will never use thanks for wasting my time." But guess what.  You can use this too.  Check it out.  Take your brand name and put it anywhere you want twitter search, google search, etc. now copy the website address, go to http://www.makecloud.com and paste the website address in the box and press the button that says "get tag cloud code".  Then sit back and be amazed at all the insights you will collect.  You just saved yourself thousands of dollars on voice of customer research.  You already know what words are most frequently associated with your brand name or category name.

Try this yourself and let me know if you find anything interesting or insightful




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Ghana Journeys, Akwaaba!
2008.10.28 14:00:00

The Ghana Journeys Website is up!

Stephen Abu Jr. CEO - Ghana Journeys

Those of you who are long time Sproutians will remember Stephen Abu. Everyone who meets Stephen loves him because he never stops smiling. Well a couple years ago Stephen left Sprout to do bigger and better things.  He was starting a company called "Ghana Journeys" They provide travel resources to people interested in visiting Ghana or West Africa.  Over the last couple years we have worked slowly but surely to get Stephen what he needs.  We are his marketing departement here in the states as he splits his time between Utah and Ghana.

The Ghana Journeys logo won a design award in the AIGA 100 show last year. We are pretty proud of that.

Congrats to the Ghana Journeys team on getting your website launched.  It looks great and the content is awesome and still growing.

 

 



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Bruce learning to fly at the Solomon Center in Ogden
2008.09.22 23:13:57
Have you been to Ogden Lately? Apparently it is a happening place. Alan Hall, Bruce Law, and Dave Clark went over to the Solomon Center after a UTC meeting. Here is a video of Bruce "flowriding" (thats what cool people call this according to google)



We may have to jump on frontrunner and take a trip to Ogden. 


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