The new YouTube design is here! I enabled mine early. http://www.youtube.com/user/mike912mueller You now have 3 tabs to your Channel. Featured, Feed and Videos. You can choose any of the three as your default tab – that means that if you have a YouTube icon on your blog linking to your …
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Cyber Monday
As far back as I can remember, December was always a slow month for real estate agents. Incredibly I knew of agents and loan officers who took the entire month off. Not me, I was always the opposite. Come the start of the slow season I was ramping up just about everything I was doing. Cyber …
Circle Six Saturday: Episode 6
With Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought this weeks theme should be all about Turkey! That was fine until I started looking for Turkey themed pages. Zilch, Nadda, Zippo! The same goes for my search for stuffing, green beans and all the other fixings that go along with our annual feast. …
The Department of Social Media
I was speaking at a conference this week. Not my typical audience. It was a mortgage tech conference but the group wasn't loan originators or others looking to use social media to attract new business. Instead the room was filled with with people who were looking more on how to control and …
Circle Six Saturday: Episode 5
PAGES! The long awaited news has finally arrived – you can now get a Google Plus Page for your business! I started with the idea of giving a shout out to 6 different people I think you might want to follow on Google plus. For those of you new to this, think of it as my Follow Friday only for …
Google+ Pages opens up!
To say I’ve been looking forward to Google Pages would be an understatement! As a huge fan of Facebook Pages, I can see G+ Pages becoming HUGE! Here's my 1st Page: https://plus.google.com/104579904029888130591/about (check it out) While it’s a slow rollout, if you want to create a G+ Page …
How To Make Video That Leaves Your Readers Breathless
(This is a quick post about an SLR camera that captures videos like a hollywood film.) LAST SUMMER, my friend Valen casually mentioned to me a new SLR camera that has "the same quality as the ones they use to make independent films." She had my ears. Because at that time I was just daydreaming …
Hitting the 5,000 friend limit on Facebook
Here’s yet another post that was initiated by a question on my Facebook Page (thanks Carole!) In case you didn’t know, Facebook will limit the friends you can have. It’s a 5,000 friend + Page LIKE limit and few real people will ever hit that. When you do hit it, you can no longer add a …
You need more LIKE’s
EdgeRank is to Facebook what the Google Algorithm is to Google. EdgeRank determines what posts, photos and comments show up higher in your newsfeed than others. The basic components of EdgeRank were affinity, weight and time. The number of LIKE's did not matter. That was Past …
Mortgage Technology Conference Workshop
I'm pleased as punch to have been asked to lead a workshop on all things social media at the upcoming Mortgage Technology Conference in Miami. Here's a few of the things I hope to cover. Social Media Overview What is Social Media? Understanding Social Reach SEO and …
Robert Scoble doesn’t need a Facebook Page
This could be considered the opposite of yesterdays post: Convert your Profile to a Page? A while ago Facebook announced the new SUBSCRIBE Button to much hoopla. Subscribe? Yeah, It essentially gives people the option to subscribe to your ‘public’ posts on your Profile without having to …
Convert your Profile to a Page?
So you joined Facebook in the hopes of getting more business. Matter of fact, all of your Facebook action is about business. You are a Facebook Marketing Machine. Until yesterday. That’s when someone pointed out that using your Profile was a violation of the Terms of Service. Terms of Service? …
Social Media Policy in real life
Could a $30 part cost you a $3,000 sale? How about 9 little words? A tale about customer service and why you need a social media policy in place, right now. Long story short, I’m an avid mountain biker. I live at the base of all things, a mountain (go figure) and I try to ride at least an …
Circle Six Saturday!
In case you're counting, this would be the 4th Edition! I started with the idea of giving a shout out to 6 different people I think you might want to follow on Google plus. For those of you new to this, think of it as my Follow Friday only for Google Plus instead of Twitter. Got it? This is …
Google Plus adds Hashtags!
One of the biggest things I like about Twitter is the ability to use a hashtag. Strangely that was missing from Google Plus, but not anymore... I had a strange dream the other night (no, you weren't in it). Seriously, I dreamt that the whole Circle Saturday thing took off. In …
Capturing the moment
You know that point when you’re walking through the haunted house thinking you are cool as beans and thinking this was built for the kiddies? There’s always that one little moment just at the end that catches you off guard? You think to yourself, “I may have jumped a little but at …
It’s CIRCLE Saturday!
I started with the idea of giving a shout out to 6 different people I think you might want to follow on Google plus. For those of you new to this, think of it as my Follow Friday only for Google Plus instead of Twitter. Got it? This is waaaay better than a FF in that you also get a little …
The Blog is DEAD
Don’t you just love sensational headlines? Obviously this blog isn’t dead and in fact I don’t think the act of blogging is dead at all. I’ll even make the assertion that with all the micro blogging happening (Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Flickr, and on and on…) that true blogging is even …
Make me PINK
I’m getting a late start on it this year but I’m happy to help make your picture PINK for breast cancer awareness month. Every year for the past couple of years I’ve made people PINK. All you have to do is send me an email ( mike912mueller@gmail.com ) and do these two things… Subject line …
Slideshow of Custom Facebook Page Apps
I’m at a conference today and will have a booth. I’m not a real 'booth' kind of guy. No fancy setup here, just a table and maybe a laptop or two. But then I thought about how to best show off the various pages I’ve done. My good friend Flickr to the rescue! I put all the images into a …