Danny Brown

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Sunday Brunch – Elevator Pitch

Sunday Brunch with Danny BrownWelcome to a new episode of Sunday Brunch, where we talk about your questions on social media, marketing, business tips, entrepreneurship and more.

Today?s question is from?Ari Herzog, who offers consulting and speaking services as a new media consultant and writer/editor over at AriHerzog.com. Ari asks:

?I’d enjoy learning how you introduce yourself to strangers — whether online or off — due to your multiple hats. Between your work with Bonsai, 12for12K, and other initiatives, let alone the multiple sites you write blog articles at, what’s your?elevator pitch?when introducing yourself? Is it always the same, or do you change it depending on the audience??

Thanks for the question, Ari, and I hope the video helps.

If you have a question, you can send it in via the form below. There?s also a file upload option, if you want to send in a picture of your favourite Sunday Brunch place.

Cheers, and see you same time, same place next week for some more Sunday Brunch chats.



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Sunday Brunch – Social Media Policy

Sunday Brunch with Danny Brown

So here it is – the inaugural episode of Sunday Brunch, where we talk about your questions about social media, marketing, business tips, entrepreneurship and more.

Today’s question is from Doreen Iannuzzi, who is the Vice President of New Media over at Diversity Media Services in Toronto, Canada (hope I pronounced your surname correctly, Doreen!). Doreeen asked:

“With the seemingly dramatic increase of businesses and companies wading into social media areas, what are your thoughts about incorporating (for example), a corporate social media policy…Twitter specifically…are you for it? I realize that every company is different, but are there specific areas or examples that you’ve come across in your travels that you could talk about?”

Thanks for the question, Doreen, and I hope the video helps.

If you have a question, you can send it in via the form below. There’s also a file upload option, if you want to send in a picture of your favourite Sunday Brunch place.

Cheers, and see you same time, same place next week for some more Sunday Brunch chats.



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Introducing Sunday Brunch

Sunday Brunch with Danny Brown

Last week, I asked for your help in coming up with a name for a new series I’m starting on the blog. With more than 80 comments (some including multiple suggestions), it was really hard to choose from the very awesome names you came up with.

After a sifting process and a lot of back and forth over the final few, the new series is going to be called Sunday Brunch, as suggested by Phil McDonnell.

The name is the one that sums up the new series perfectly – it’s on a Sunday; each post will be going live at 11.00am (Eastern); and the posts will be more of a nice, relaxed video approach as opposed to the text posts normally found here.

So, as of next Sunday, the new Sunday Brunch will be going live. Answering your questions on everything from marketing, social media, building brand loyalty, etc, I hope it’ll be a nice regular stopover for your blog reading travels.

You can use the form below to send in your questions, and I’ll pick one at the end of the week for the post next Sunday (and so on). And if you have a favourite spot where you go for brunch, use the file upload option to send in a picture of it and I’ll use alongside the post, with full credit to you (thanks for the suggestion, Tim).

Thanks again for all your help, everyone, I really do appreciate it, and cheers for the suggestion, Phil – I’ll be in touch soon for your mailing address to send a little thank you parcel out.

Look forward to seeing your questions!

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A Very Merry Social Media Christmas

I was originally going to write a Christmas blog post of my own, to thank you all for continuing to be part of this little part of the web, and for giving up the time in your day to be here when you could be somewhere else.

But then I thought – it’s Christmas Eve, you’re probably busy preparing for tomorrow, and the last thing you want is another long-ass Christmas post to say what I hope you know I feel every other day of the year.

So instead, I’ll just say have a safe and very Merry Christmas – I hope you spend some deserved downtime with your loved ones and have a wonderful day full of laughs, good food, hearty drink and a circle of love.

I’ll see you on the other side of Christmas – I’m taking a few days off, but I’ll leave you with this rather cool little social media Christmas video. Avoid Romans, indeed…

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Video Overview of the New Catalyst Premium WordPress Theme

Catalyst premium WordPress theme

This post originally appeared over at For Bloggers By Bloggers. I’m reposting here as WordPress, and the various premium frameworks around, are becoming an increasingly important and adaptable toolset for any business, small or large and should be your starting point when building your presence online.

New to the premium WordPress theme scene, Catalyst looks to be the most in-depth and extensive premium WordPress theme currently on the market when it comes to dashboard options.

From the same guys behind the now-discontinued Frugal theme, Catalyst takes premium WordPress themes to a whole new level for user options.

With unlimited design options, a very cool CSS Builder Tool, 22 skins and a child theme included in the package, the ability to build Child Themes with a couple of clicks and much, MUCH more, Catalyst is shaping up to be a premium WordPress theme to be reckoned with.

Throw in the fact that both personal ($97) and developer licenses ($174) for the Catalyst theme allows you unlimited use, and it’s clear the developers mean business.

Here’s a video overview of some of the Catalyst features – I’ll be revisiting with a full-on review and some designs that I’ve built to test the framework out soon.

What do you think – can Catalyst compete with the established premium WordPress themes like Thesis, Genesis, Woo Themes, Headway and others?

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