April 30, 2012
Over the weekend, I noticed that my latest photo set (Best of San Francisco) had experienced a huge surge of hits from both Google’s organic search and the San Francisco subreddit. In fact, over a 1,000 people had viewed the photo blog post in just two days, not something that happens everyday, which got me thinking [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Photography, Travel |
April 26, 2012
Those of you who follow my blog know that about a month ago I returned from an eye-opening trip to San Francisco, a city I had been seriously considering relocating to because of my desire to work in social media marketing. The original catalyst for the trip was to meet up with an old friend from [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Business, Global trends, Marketing, Social Media, Travel |
March 28, 2012
This post is inspired by my friends who have been pestering me lately about what I have been doing on Twitter to have attracted so many new followers in such a short amount of time. While my Twitter account is far from the most popular out there, I have apparently stumbled on to something. What follows [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Global trends, Marketing, PR, Social Media |
March 15, 2012
Presenting a photo set of the best of my photos from urban, friendly and incredibly diverse San Francisco! (All photos © of Nick Taylor & The Two Halves blog).
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Posted in Photography, Travel |
February 29, 2012
“I left my home in Georgia, headed for the ‘Frisco Bay” ~ Otis Redding After a few months back in my native Arizona with mostly uninspiring interviews under my belt, it is time to take a risk. In the early hours of March 7th, this blogger will touch down in San Francisco, the city that [...]
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Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Travel |
February 22, 2012
While the social media world is busy clamoring on about Pinterest, aka “digital crack for women” and off debating the merits of leaving Facebook, some of us have been quietly looking for new ways to efficiently increase our SM presence. XeeMe, a relatively new service that launched in August of last year, could be about [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Global trends, Marketing, PR, Social Media |
January 31, 2012
In a The Global Guru & The Two Halves exclusive, presenting our set of the best photos from Las Vegas, Nevada. (All photos © TGG & TTH internet publishing properties and their respective owners).
Tags: Arizona, best of Las Vegas, las vegas, Nevada, photo set, photography, photos of Las Vegas, The Global Guru, The Two Halves
Posted in Blogging, Photography, Travel |
January 19, 2012
As we kick off the New Year, social media has become an integral part of marketing (see my previous post Social Media Trends for 2011), yet so much more than just another tool used to increase awareness, drive conversion and impact brand equity. Through some research and a lot of introspection about what will be [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Business, Global trends, Marketing, Social Media |
December 31, 2011
It’s that time of the year to look back upon the past year’s successes and failures, all with the aim of improving and fine tuning site strategy in the New Year! According to Google Analytics, here’s how The Two Halves performed in 2011: Top 5 Most Popular Posts 1. Top 5 Social Media Trends for [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Global trends, Social Media |
December 27, 2011
If you have been following the latest trends in social media, you have probably noticed that sites attempting to measure online influence have been popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. With the mass of content available online, the marketers behind it certainly all have a vested interest in jockeying furiously for position. For a great [...]
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Posted in Global trends, Marketing, Social Media |
