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How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by .

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If you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, you’re part of “Gen-Y.” And as part of that generation, you make up a large part of the 750 million+ Facebook community. A new study, conducted by Millennial Branding, looked at more than 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, and the results were very interesting – to say the [...]

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Social Networks: What are They Good For?

Social Networks: What are They Good For?

Posted on 27. Oct, 2011 by .

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Does social media make you feel like you’re shouting in crowded room, yet no one seems to be paying attention? Perhaps it’s not you, but instead the medium. About a year ago I wanted to better understand (anecdotally) how people reacted to various social mediums. I posted the same message on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, [...]

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Using Facebook to Maximize Your Blog Traffic

Using Facebook to Maximize Your Blog Traffic

Posted on 07. Jun, 2011 by .

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With the growth of social media websites, spreading the word about your blog has never been so easy. Social media sites are perfect for this because they not only allow you to reach different markets that you may not normally reach, but they also give you the ability to share content that might not be [...]

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Interview with Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner and Uzzz

Interview with Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner and Uzzz

Posted on 20. May, 2011 by .

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I was recently fortunate enough to get the chance to interview Syed Balkhi, the founder of Uzzz, a premier web design firm, and WPBeginner, a site dedicated to helping people maximize their WordPress knowledge in a simple, easy-to-follow way. Syed shared a lot about what has made his companies successful, and he has some great [...]

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The Ins and Outs of Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

The Ins and Outs of Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook

Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by .

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Lately it seems like everywhere you look, people are talking about Facebook privacy concerns. Some have even gone so far as to close their Facebook accounts. For an individual user, this is no big deal, but for a business to ignore Facebook over something that can easily and effectively be addressed, is unwise to say [...]

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Choosing Social Networking Sites Carefully

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by .

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Everyone knows how big social networking is for business owners these days.  Social networking was originally intended to make it easier to maintain personal relationships, but businesses have made social networking a priority as well.  Premier sites have made it possible for businesses to grow their contact lists, manage their relationships and created the concepts [...]

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How to Make Your Facebook Page Work!

Posted on 21. May, 2010 by .

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Getting visitors to your Facebook page isn’t that hard.  Using basic Social Media techniques, connecting with people – on Facebook as well as Twitter and anywhere else you can – will get people visiting your page.  Once they get there though, the trick is to get them to keep coming back.  Facebook, like all social [...]

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New Media

Realize the Potential of New Media

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by .

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New media surely isn’t new anymore, although if it is new to you, you are in danger of getting behind the curve. In the space of only a few years the power of the Internet has exploded like an ancient volcano, tending to cover a company’s well honed marketing structure with molten lava or ash. [...]

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A Picture Tells a Thousand Words

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by .

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When you see some of the most creative infographics around today, it’s little wonder that they say that people skim through webpages, focusing on graphics, rather than getting themselves absorbed in all the text. This should tell us all a story, as while the written word is certainly always “king” as we know, if we [...]

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Send Money with Paypal and Facebook

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by .

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PayPal has become pally with Facebook recently and you can now send money to people right from your Facebook site. All you need is your e-mail address and PayPal takes care of all the rest. Here is the link to the PayPal page within Facebook where you can get started. It seems that Facebook is [...]

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Unusual Uses for Google Wave

Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by .

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Google Wave continues to enthrall and confuse at the same time. This is a whole new line of communication and is fundamentally much more than just a revision of the basic e-mail concept, as some have said. E-mail as we know it is basically a static concept – distributing notifications back and forth, where they [...]

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Top Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media Marketing

Posted on 25. Dec, 2009 by .

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Social media marketing does not have to be rocket science. Many people make it more complicated than it is and tend to shy away from it. They know that they should engage, but still fundamentally do not understand the intricacies and as such, they are missing out on a whole new way of communicating with [...]

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9 Predictions for 2010

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by .

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Where were you when we welcomed the new millennium? It seems quite quaint to look back at that moment and remember our fears. Computerized technology would fail everywhere as it would not be able to adapt and recognize the arrival of the new century. Fast forward ten years and our online lives have changed beyond [...]

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Try Brizzly to Manage Your Lists

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by .

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Guess what? Twitter is making more and more sense, at least when you integrate some new applications and platforms. Brizzly, a web-based social media reader may be in beta – invite mode only right now, but it promises to elevate the usability of Twitter and even make it, dare I say it, more Facebook-ish. Brizzly [...]

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