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Profiting With Pinterest
Who doesn’t love pinning things on Pinterest? It’s highly addictive and it’s predominantly populated by an abundance of women with a mindset to shop. Every board is comparable to a full scale wish list of purchases waiting to happen. Pins are shared, liked and commented right on Pinterest, fed through Facebook or Twitter feeds where... Read More
How to Use Foursquare for Business – 8 Smart Tips
Rumor has it that social media will overtake conventional marketing within the decade. Think about it. When deciding where to take a date for a nice dinner or using a new accountant, are you more likely to take the word of a paid advertisement or the word of your unbiased friend? If you say paid... Read More
How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You
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... Read More
9 Social Media Icon Sets to Jazz Up Your Site!
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... Read More
Choosing Social Networking Sites Carefully
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... Read More
Flickr – The Best Kept Social Networking Secret?
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... Read More
How to Make Your Facebook Page Work!
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... Read More
How to Deal with a Damaged Online Rep
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... Read More
“Promoted Tweets” Twitter Ads a Game Changer? Oh Yeah
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... Read More
9 Predictions for 2010
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... Read More
Facebook Fan Pages
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... Read More
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