Archive for January, 2010


Measuring Social Media ROI

Monday, January 4th, 2010

A lot of people are wondering how to determine social media ROI these days.

A lot of other people are trying to determine what ROI stands for.

I won’t hold you in suspense any longer: return on investment. In other words, is the time you’re spending on social media worth it? After all, if you’re using social media to grow your business or non-profit, shouldn’t you be getting out more than you put into it?

In this month’s flyte log, our nearly-award winning email newsletter, we take a look at how small businesses and non-profits can plan a successful social media campaign, and how to measure it.

Be sure to pick up your copy of Social Media ROI: 5 Steps to Social Media Success before they’re all gone.

Rich Brooks
I’ll have a Rob ROI, please.


The 11 Biggest Mistakes Small Business Bloggers Make – Revised!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

11 Biggest MistakesOne of the most popular downloads on the flyte website for the past few years has been The 11 Biggest Mistakes Small Business Bloggers Make. In it, I document some of the most egregious mistakes I made as I started flyte’s own blog on Web marketing for small business (and how to avoid them!)

During last year’s BlogWorld, I revised some of my thinking on how small businesses (and non-profits) can use a blog to grow their business (or organization.) Some of the mistakes in the original report were no longer relevant, while new ones had appeared.

For example, SEO (search engine optimization) had become much more essential to a blog’s success, especially as competition in the blogosphere had increased. Likewise, when I first wrote the report social media was almost non-existent, at least as far as today’s landscape goes. Today’s successful blogger needs to be active in Twitter, Facebook, and even YouTube.

If you have been considering launching your own blog, or wondering why your current blog isn’t as effective as it could be, be sure to download your free copy of The 11 Biggest Mistakes Small Business Bloggers Make. (Email subscription is your only requirement…and you can unsubscribe as soon as the download is completed!) If you’re already a subscriber to flyte log, our almost-award winning email newsletter, I’ll be sending you a link to where you can download the revised report soon.

Rich Brooks
Mistake Prone


Levey & Wagley: A WordPress Port for Maine Lawyers

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Levey & WagleyRecently flyte helped Levey & Wagley, Maine attorneys-at-law, upgrade their Web presence.

First, a bit about Levey & Wagley: located in Winthrop, Maine, this law firm offers services in the following categories:

We performed what we call a “WordPress Port.” We take a traditional, static Web site, and create a WordPress theme based on that design. We then port over all the content, included some training, and voila! The law firm, the small business owner, or the non-profit agency can now add, edit and delete their own content, create new pages, upload photos or embed videos to their heart’s content.

Suddenly their static Web site is a robust publishing platform.

Are you ready to take your Web site to the next level?

Rich Brooks
WordPress Web Site Development