Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Month: January 2011

  • 4 ways to stand out from the crowd in your marketing job search (via Marketing Insights and Inspirations)

    Great advice, beautifully presented from a local, blogging star. When stacked against tens or even hundreds of candidates for desirable positions, candidates need to find creative ways to stand out from the crowd.  How you present yourself makes a big difference in how memorable you are and the likelihood that well-connected people will hire you or recommend you for positions.…

  • My Favorite Music Writer Reads his Stuff

    And he’s local! Jim Walsh who’s been writing about local music, since, well I’ve been reading about it, is reading some of his favorites Friday night in Excelsior at the 318 Music Cafe: Jim Walsh: Songs and Stories I’ve always wanted to do this. I’ll read some of my fave columns and essays from over…

  • How App-Like Design Can Turn Your Site Visitors Into Customers

    How App-Like Design Can Turn Your Site Visitors Into Customers. Great article from Mashable.com. All I read about is social media. It’s important to see someone discussing the importance of web design in making a sale. Another site that I love is from Mashable reporter, Jolie O’Dell:  http://jolieodell.com/

  • Cassoulet: Why Use Social Media

    Why should my local deli Tweet? or my bike shop? or any business? Why follow @Sara_G_N_Kerr? How relevant is it that Tuesday I ate Cassoulet for lunch while sitting on a radiator because it was so cold here? Granted, I usually have more important things to say. But then again, how do I know my…

  • Blogging Tips – Passion is a Must

    Here’s the first of eight questions to ask, an excerpt from keys if you will to blogging success from Lori Randall and The Social Media Examiner #1: Are You Passionate? In The New Rules of Marketing & PR, David Meerman Scott urges would-be bloggers to “be passionate about and want the world to know about”…

  • 13 Tweets

    CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — The number 13 is often said to be bad luck. But not for a group of interns chosen by Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis, which announced today it will hire its group of summer 2011 interns based on an application consisting of 13 tweets sent between Feb. 13 and Feb. 25. I love that…

  • The Marketing of the Minivan

    They are everywhere.

  • Adopt a Fire Hydrant — Make this Viral!

    Since most people I know don’t read the newspaper, how would anyone know they should adopt a fire hydrant? The Strib featured the deadly problem of snow-buried fire hydrants in mid December — an article I missed until my husband mentioned that he’d seen it. Local real estate agent Teresa Boardman blogged about what great…

  • Reblog: 7 Blogging Tips From Top Bloggers

    Attention new bloggers, here is a super tip on effectively blogging by Amy Porterfield of the Social Media Examiner #3: Reframe How You Look at Business Blogging “I often hear people complain that they don’t have time to write on their business blog or they don’t know what to write about,” says Denise Wakeman, founder…

  • People Just Need a Reason to…

    People Just Need a Reason to Go Out, to Buy, to Visit, to Shop:  That’s my theory of local retail and dining. Here’s where it’s worked for me (and Minneapolis/St. Paul businesses) in 2010. Groveland Tap’s “Save the Nook Saturday” – Backstory:  the venerable Nook burger shop on Hamline  Avenue was gutted by fire on…