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

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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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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9 Social Media Icon Sets to Jazz Up Your Site!

Posted on 20. Oct, 2010 by Adam.

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As most of us know, social media is an amazingly effective forum in which we can share content, boost popularity, and improve our search engine rankings – which of course results in getting found on the Internet. Using graphical icons that mesh well with the theme of your website and content rather than plain, boring [...]

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Choosing Social Networking Sites Carefully

Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by Guest Post.

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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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Flickr – The Best Kept Social Networking Secret?

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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Chances are good that when you think of social networks, you think of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, and when you think of Flickr, you think photo sharing. We recently posted an article on paid and free image sites, in which Flickr was included (with a few caveats) as a great source of free images. And [...]

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How to Make Your Facebook Page Work!

Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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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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How to Deal with a Damaged Online Rep

Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Adam.

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If you have any kind of online presence, customers, readers, followers, or whatever you call them, are talking about you. Whether it’s comments on your blog, tweets about your business, or reviews and feedback on sites like Yelp or Epinions, the Internet has made it easy for everyone to make their views known. And that’s [...]

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“Promoted Tweets” Twitter Ads a Game Changer? Oh Yeah

Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Matthew Toren.

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As you might have heard, Twitter has finally initiated a revenue model. Earlier this week, they rolled out “Promoted Tweets”, their new advertising program. What does this mean for Twitter and their millions of loyal users? To some extent, it probably means a shift in the atmosphere on Twitter, but they’re taking some interesting steps [...]

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9 Predictions for 2010

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Adam.

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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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Facebook Fan Pages

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Adam.

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Facebook has always been touchy about members spamming, but in the past year they’ve really opened up opportunities for businesses and professionals to represent themselves on the site. The best way to make your presence known if you hope to use Facebook for marketing is to create what is called a “Fan Page” in the [...]

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Twitter in Plain English

Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Adam.

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I am still asked on a regular basis from several people: What is Twitter? Well, this short video which is just over 2 minutes is the most concise and easily understood video on Twitter. Hope you enjoy it and dont forget to follow us at http://www.Twitter.com/Blogtrepreneur once you get your twitter account set up!

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Twittiquette – The Do’s and Dont’s of Twitter

Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by Adam.

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Twitter has set the social media world on fire. It is fast, effective, and even the most stodgy internet user must admit that it is pretty fun. The idea, of course, is that you build your own community of people with similar interests and exchange short 140 character messages with them on any and every [...]