Barry's Blog

At Social Media Systems, we deal a lot with various online projects that cover an entire range of requirements. As online marketers, this puts us in a 3rd party vendor relation as many times we promote a site that we have not originally created. In many of these instances, we discover helpful, b...

There is always a lot of buzz about social media and search engine marketing. In the real estate industry we are very happy to be one of the leaders in the market.One of the most common misconceptions that we often get is how "social media" affects targeted traffic and keyword result. There have ...

RISMEDIA, Sept. 24, 2007-Finding a lost wallet with a driver’s license inside of it does not equal a valid lead, but to some lead companies the idea of “name, number, and address” is the only thing required to qualify as a lead. In an age of “speed of thought” shopping online, a large portion of ...

I wandered across this example of social media being used to relate our own ideas of a "good childhood" with how war and conflict in other portions of the world is impacting children. Inside of the United States most of us are very privileged, and being a single father myself of a six year old bo...

Here is another article that I clipped from my writing this week over at RISmedia.com, last week at the RISMedia Leadership Conference the topic of lead generation was on the top three list. As the market shifts around more and more with the financial side of the industry, I predict there will be...

This article was original published on RISMedia.com this past week. Due to the response and commentary there I felt it would be a good read for many of our other industry related readers here. Like many other things, some good articles are lost in cyberspace amongst millions of pieces of clutter,...