by Ted Rubin | Oct 22, 2025 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
Too many small businesses treat social media like a bulletin board. Post, walk away, and hope someone notices. But social, when used to best effect, especially by small businesses who can dramatically change the course of their potential success, isn’t static…...
by Ted Rubin | Jun 21, 2025 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
Let’s get real about the platforms we all rely on, whether for content, connection, or commerce. The algorithms aren’t neutral. They’re not just “feeding the content people want.” They are engineered to suppress anything that disrupts the plans, or profits, of those...
by Ted Rubin | Jan 19, 2025 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
Imagine a world where we step back from the chaos of endless scrolling and algorithm-driven feeds, returning to a time when human connection was at the forefront of how we communicated and built relationships. Personally, I’d be thrilled if all social media platforms...
by Ted Rubin | Nov 16, 2024 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous, Social Media/Marketing, Uncategorized
Social media platforms, in their early stages, were bustling spaces of authentic conversation and connection. Brands that excelled understood that success in this realm was not just about broadcasting messages but about cultivating genuine relationships. The recent...
by Ted Rubin | Jul 7, 2024 | Featured, Marketing, Miscellaneous
Back in 1997, I had the pleasure and good fortune of getting hired by Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, where the internet was being labeled as “new media.” However, the truth was that there was nothing truly new about it. It was essentially traditional media...
