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Read More How to Get a $100 Google AdWords Credit From GoDaddyTweet A few weeks ago, one of my MKTG 490 students applied for a job where the application asked for salary requirements. She asked me for some advice on what to put into this area of the application. She is a soon-to-be marketing graduate applying for an entry level position. One idea was to leave…
Read More 2011 Marketing Salary GuidesTweet My students often ask how I have time to be so active in social media channels. My trick is a fabulous tool called HootSuite. HootSuite has a very flexible layout and lets you manage multiple accounts. For example, I have personal social media accounts as well as business-based social media accounts. HootSuite allows me…
Read More My favorite tool for social media time management: HootSuiteTweet I have b een grading a few blog post assignments from my spring 2011 MKTG 470 class and I’m finding a common problem that my students aren’t clearly detecting. Namely, I am experiencing an inability to view some of their individual blog posts and web pages due to the “404 or Not Found error”. …
Read More Uh oh! Detecting a 404 or Not Found Error on Individual Blog Posts and Pages in WordPressTweet I wasn’t kidding when I told my students that MKTG 470 is probably going to be the most dynamic marketing course that they will ever take. Just when I finished teaching my students the basics of WordPress, a new version rolled out. Thanks to Christina Warren’s post about What’s New with WordPress 3.1, I…
Read More New Features of WordPress 3.1Tweet Jessica Jacklin, one of my rockstar JMU Marketing alums and current Associate at BBDO, is looking for some rockstar JMU students who want to break into the world of advertising. BBDO just won the Arby’s account so they are hiring for an AAE or an AE in NYC. BBDO is the largest agency in…
Read More One of my Former JMU Rockstars Seeks a New Rockstar for BBDOTweet Diana Doody, a 2009 JMU Marketing Alum, announced a Program Coordinator Position at RADIUS. It is aimed at students who have recently graduated or graduating this May. Although the preferred qualifications lists 2-3 years marketing experience in the hospitality industry, they are also considering recent graduates who are real go-getters. If you would like…
Read More RADIUS Program Coordinator PositionTweet To help my spring 2011 MKTG 470 students improve the quality of their blogs and prepare for the end-of-semester peer review, each student is assigned a “JMU blog partner”. Blog partners are encouraged to develop a strategy for critiquing each others blog posts and providing feedback throughout the semester. Blog partners may want to…
Read More James Madison Marketing Blog Post Partners – Spring 2011Tweet Thank you to Timothy Dietz [@tim_dietz], one of my spring 2011 James Madison Marketing students, for sharing his experience writing HTML with Macintosh TextEdit. This my first semester where I had a large number of students using a Mac. I didn’t realize that there were some issues with the PC-based HTML assignments until my…
Read More HTML for Mac UsersTweet Christine Harriger, from JMU’s Career and Academic Planning (CAP), will be in Zane Showker Room 219 for walk-ins on Thursday afternoons from 2-4:30. She will meet with students on a walk-in basis regarding career-related assistance. If you can’t make it during those times, call 540-568-6555 to make an appointment with Christine in Wilson 301.
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