by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 5, 2009 | Blog, Human Psychology, Social Media
Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin. “I was surprised by the...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Human Psychology
From an evolutionary perspective, it all harkens back to the skills that women used for gathering plant foods and the skills that men used for hunting meat. The contrast emerges because of the different foraging strategies for hunting and gathering used throughout...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Social Media
The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email that content to their social network, say researchers from Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University. …. They studied what they call ‘e-mavens’, people who spend a lot of time online,...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Nov 5, 2009 | Blog, Internet Marketing Research
Pretty neat little study that concludes what a lot of advanced internet marketers already know. Either way, it’s always nice to be justified every once in a while: “If, as these data suggest, the cognitive and emotional impact of online content is greatest...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Oct 29, 2008 | Blog, Social Media
OK. So, I Twitter (chadConnects) and I know there are a bunch of different Twitter tools and such out there but I hated having to Google something each time I thought of a Twitter idea someone might have already programmed. So, I just made this list and decided to...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Sep 11, 2008 | Blog, Social Media
Alright, so I’m reading a blog I like to read from a master persuasder and marketing maven Dave Lakhani and he posts something about Twitter that makes me think on it for a several days. It has to do with building your audience by letting them tell you what they...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Aug 31, 2008 | Blog, Copywriting
Trying to create anything “great” is a tough task. You can often help yourself out by using formulas. Using a formula should get you from creating something that ends up being awkward to one that ends up being “good”. If you expected you could...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Aug 30, 2008 | Blog
So you remember when I posted my review of StomperNet’s new things “Stomping the Search Engines 2” and “The Net Effect”? I said that the pricing was going to be key for these, right? Well Andy Jenkins just sent me an email with a...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Aug 30, 2008 | Blog
OK. So I just got my preview copy of Stomping the Search Engines 2 and have just cracked box. We’ll see what happens here but I do have high standards and I do SEO for a living. Oh, there’s also something called the ‘Net Effect and it’s some...
by Chad Michael Lawson | Aug 29, 2008 | Blog, Business Advice
If you turn on the news and you hear all this gloom & doom about the economy every single day, it’s a hard not to believe it. There are plenty of people who prospering during this time and you need to get it straight in your head so you don’t get...