Some businesses are so concerned with getting social media followers that they forget that what’s really important is keeping these social media followers. Social followers aren’t locked into any kind of contract. It’s just as easy to unfollow a brand in social media as it is to initially click the “Like” or “Follow” button. The [...]
What not to do at Facebook. Product Manager Paul Adams is now advising brands on how not to use Facebook
Facebook Timeline with a cool new format takes a leaf out of Social media newbie Pinterest !
Pinterest is the web’s fastest growing social media site with more than 10.5 million unique visitors and growing daily. It’s grown a massive 4000% in just six months and is already turning a tidy profit – something that the other social leaders never achieved in the early days. Why? Pinterest is addictive. It whips users [...]
Social shopping and image sharing sites like Pinterest are gaining great brand coverage and increased eyeballs that was once considered a Facebook preserve.
Social media has come along way. At their inceptions, Facebook and Twitter provided a new way for people to socialize. Tweets and posts became the trendy way to communicate. We discussed our hectic day, our overbearing bosses, and some of the things that piqued our interests. We even let people know when we were going [...]
80% of Americans use a social network site, and they spend more time on Facebook than any other United States based website. Businesses of all sizes and across all industries have wholeheartedly embraced the social media phenomenon. More than 70% of businesses polled reported website traffic increases once they implement a social media marketing plan. [...]
After the setback to Pandora Media and Groupon whose price slipped below the IPO issue price Zynga has scaled down its valuation, showing deep concerns in the social media. Will the downtrend persist ?
Irish authroties have started audit proceedings of Facebook data after it was revealed that Facebook collected extensive personal data on both users and non-users.
Consider this scenario: You know you’re supposed to get on Twitter to somehow promote your website. So you start randomly tweeting out links to a product or service page on your website. But who is going to care? Sure, you could do some Twitter searches and find people who are asking their own Twitter followers [...]
Did Randi Zuckerberg leave Facebook to start a rival network or create an independant and important ally of FB in the field of visual media ?
Google may be right to have yanked off the powerful tech blogs off its social networking site, but its strong arm policy did not win many friends.
A few weeks ago I learned that I was chosen as one of the “Top 25 Online Marketers to Follow on Twitter” by David Vogelpohl over at Marketing Pilgrim. (I’d like to thank my family, my 2nd grade teacher…) While it was cool to be chosen, more interesting to me was how David characterized my [...]
It is clear that the Internet is now an essential part of establishing businesses of any kind and size. The Internet is fast becoming the main medium for business networking, researching and collecting useful information, and website promotion among other things. It is unbelievable how much convenience and efficiency conducting business dealings online bring to [...]




