Feb
26
2009
Digital Cupcakes: Smart Marketing in a Downturn Whether You’re Out of Work or Not
Posted in the Category of Corporate Blogging and Social Media and Twitter and Writing Tips and YouTube
Like others, I've been pondering the best way to get new business, or stay in business, in today's plummeting economy. Then it came to me: digital cupcakes. There's a coffee shop three blocks from me that sells (according to the March 2009 issue of The Atlantic), the best cupcake in America. I wander over several times a week, laptop under my arm. I order a cappuccino. They make the kind where the swirl of foam on top is perfectly patterned.
A visitor to my site recently asked for some advice on how to start blogging. "I have never blogged, so this is completely new to me," he wrote. I have to say that it's wonderfully refreshing to get this kind of question in late 2008. It's easy to think that everybody is steeped in the use of social media, whether it's 
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