Just in case you haven’t seen this on the twinternets…. (*putting a tw in front of anything make it infinitely better) I’m going to go ahead and call this video one of my 2010 Top TEN!  A few things first, my guys didn’t even know that there is an actual movie called “The Social Network” based on everyones favorite time sink….. Facebook! You can see the Official Trailer here. Now after you’ve had a chance to check that out, and assuming of course you know what twitter is…  feel free to LYAO! I like to start each day with a quick view…

You’re welcome! Now go walk around your office yelling HASH TAGSSSSS!!!! It feels great, and no one will know what the hell you’re talking about anyways #justsayin

Occasionally, when businesses grow, and start to line their coffers with beautiful, beautiful,  money. When this occurs, the CEOs and founders get to hire underlings to handle all the smaller projects and to assist in the motivations of the company and it soon to  evil empires…

Wait, did I say that out loud?

What I meant to say was “Hi, I’m Alex Bruner.”

Along with my associate Tristan, I am the newest addition to Shade Tree Marketing, one of David Brown and Brian Marks Search Engine Optimization businesses here on the world wide webz.

Tristan and I come from Bellingham Washington, and bring a nice mix of experience to the table, Tristan being an athletic rugby player, myself a former LARPER.If anyone ever needs help slaying legendary dragons or kobolds let me know:)

In addition to our obvious manly charm (as indicated in the above photo) Tristan and I, from left to right, show that the stereotype of Pacific Northwest men being hairy and pale are definitely true.

When we came to work  for Shade Tree Marketing as  interns, Tristan and I were quickly loaded up with a plethora of tasks.  The first thing we noticed was David and Brian were juggling about a thousand tasks each, so we were happy to take a few of the thousand off of their hands. This has been a great fit for all of us, and within about a year Tristan and I were promoted to Sr. Account Managers.

David has asked that Tristan and I make introductory posts here to announce our new titles. (Kind of an attaboy thing I think;)

Here it is… As any of you watching yesterdays keynote from Facebook’s F8 conference CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Universal Like Button – 1 Billion sites served daily! Now that’s a bold statement… but we thought we’d help out. Actually I thought WP plugin guys would have been all over this like a fat chick on a twinkie, they weren’t! So I complained a few times on Twitter… still nothing So as with anything else in life – if you want it done right, you’re gonna have to do it yourself!

That being said… I contacted two of my favorite guys in Lancaster, Pa. (the owners of Mind Development & Design Zim & Chad) 3 hours later, as you can see at the top of this post, the Universal Like Button is a wordpress plugin! It’s not been approved by WP yet but we’re running the latest version 2.9.2 (as of the date of this post) and it works like a champ. Just go download the Facebook Universal Like Button <— there upload it to your wp-content ==> plugins folder. Log into your admin panel, go to plugins ==>activate the plugin ===> go to ‘Settings’ (put in your settings, for example I have mine set to top left & show avatars) adjust yours as you wish…. then simply start using it!

I’d also like to say – if you are not currently one of my buddies on Facebook then you probably won’t see the avatars at the top of this post. So you can go and add me http://facebook.com/SEO-101 and please hit the Like button on this post so that we can continue to show / help any of the newb’s that want to use this on their wordpress site!

I love deadlines… especially the sound they make as they go swoooshing by! If you’ve been following the crazy antics of civic leaders across America, vying for a little Google love, the race is over. And I think it’s fair to say Bellingham, Wa. Cinched it with this amazing video!

Now I’m not one to jump into these types of debates often… but I do believe that a bit of humor never hurt anyone. That being said I’m sure everyone has heard about the Tiger Woods debacle. While unfortunate that the entire world now knows his dirty little secret… What would you have your star earner do? Pepsi, Gillette, and Buick have all laid off the Woods… So approaching this debacle as a marketer I often think of what my mentor would say – “If it’s really a problem, Feature it! Put your spin on it and people will buy it for the flaw.” While I don’t work / consult for the Woods marketing team… here’s some ideas to get you started (thanks to a mass email my Dad sent me)

Look condom companies… this is wrapped and delivered! Now all you have to do is get a meeting w/ Tiger
You might want to ask the guys over at Pfizer to join you at your meeting…

It’s not often that someone w/ Tigers star power becomes available to those of you that market on the ‘fringe’ of ‘PC’ All I’m saying… make the offer before he starts getting movie deals.

I mean nothing is going to pay like the glory days of 8 fortune 500 companies but for those of you willing to stretch your brand for Tiger – well don’t stretch too far .02

We all know the old saying – Pimp’in ain’t easy – While this may be true, thanks for making it look so good!