Tech PR clients want these top ten traits, which won us praise over many years:

1. Communicate well with me

2. Be competent and experienced, in technology and business

3. Establish good relationships and be a teammate of my staff

4. Demonstrate leadership

ActivityStreams home at http://ActivityStrea.ms

[NOTE] This post is on the uber-geeky side.  It relates to open standards for sharing what we do on a Website, such as Twitter, Facebook, Live.com, etc.

Sales Funnel Closing

Our experience includes conceiving, structuring, proposing, selling, and closing deals like yours.

Win Through Excellent Selling

Sales Funnel: Sales Excellence Takes You To The Lead

Success in sales is a learned experience that does not happen overnight.

Moving from relations with the public to relations with individuals

It is crucial for any business to run a public relations campaign in order to keep a positive image in the public eye. However, the traditional modes of running such a campaign are slowly becoming obsolete. That is why it is necessary for businesses to update their public relations campaigns for the 21st century, and tackle the new methodologies & tools, which include blogging and social media.

Editor's note: a number of these tools are changed or no longer available.

Google: How To Submit to Google Webmaster Tools

Submit your site to Google's search engine via Google Webmaster Tools

Find instructions at Using Webmaster Tools

 Are Web apps and services heading to extinction as common Web functionality becomes embedded in Mobile apps and interfaces - or - within commonly used apps, such as e-mail? Specifically, Web-based apps like Twitter have new competition in Google Buzz, which integrates micro-blogging directly into your e-mail. Another example would be the many Web-based calendar and event services. Many of these independent Web apps have their own interfaces.

As part of our participation in the Drupal community, I've offered a presentation for annual DrupalCon conferences, DrupalCamps, or local Drupal Users Groups.  Jim can present this to your organization.

The session is entitled:

 "Lame to Fame: Whys & Hows for Taking Your Website to the Top"

Notes From "SEO Best Practices for the Drupal.org Redesign" Webinar. Noted here are SEO recommendations for the drupal.org redesign.  

In a recent survey of LinkedIn users, more than 35% did not include a profile photograph, even for many C-level executives. 

Call Jim for help getting a good photo (770) 642-2080, x218.

One method for attaining higher quality results, is a PR process that embeds strategy within the tactical documentation for the client. MediaFirst identifies the desired, future positioning for a client. This is a view of how the client firm wishes to be viewed in a year. Since most of our clients are privately held, we work for executives that have shareholdings in their firm and want to increase valuation. To succeed we use a technique applied by excellent, venture-backed companies.

This technique establishes:

 I just posted this comment on Scobleizer's blog, regarding the post named 

"Why Google Chrome OS has already won"  

 Today's FTC Guide requires disclosure by bloggers if they have material connections with a company that they endorse in their blog.  From the release:

Businesses and individuals increasingly see the value in online social media for industry connections or introductions and clearly for employment opportunities. Beyond these are company branding, business reputation management, and professional business networking.