Though metrics for evaluating the effect of social to businesses are still questionable, businesses everywhere are hopping onto the social media bandwagon. As we all know though if everyone’s starting to pay attention, though we don’t have neat round figures to prove that something is good or beneficial, then something must be right about that [...]
Guest blogging is something that we have heard of today. While you are not really compensated for it, the backlink is really the thing that should be checked out. We all know that links to our site will be the best way to drive in traffic and apparently, this is one alternative you can really [...]
One thing anyone would surely hate is getting email alerts from certain applications like Tagged or WAYN. While you are not subscribed to them, alerts find their way to you mailbox mainly because your friends have chosen to send them to you or because they have allowed access to their email box to which emails [...]
News Blaze reported about a new social platform for artists and art lovers called TheArtistFinder.com. TheArtistFinder.com, as the name implies, is a site where you can browse at the work of artists worldwide, click on the artist whose work catches your eye, and get information (links to sites) on where you can buy that artist’s [...]
Social media companies will be happy to hear that marketers are planning to increase their budget for social media marketing this year. What they wouldn’t be too happy to hear is that the increase wouldn’t be that dramatic. Still with everyone cutting corners these days the fact that budgets will be increasing is great. Forrester’s [...]
If you thought that social platforms are solely for marketing purposes that where you’re so wrong. Social computing technologies are emerging that will help businesses not just in the marketing world but also in product development. In the embedded YouTube video below Robin Saitz, Senior Vice President for Solutions Marketing & Communications of the Product [...]
Scott Monty, Ford Motor’s social media head, recently wrote an article that reminded me how easy it is to get tunnel vision. Admittedly, I focus all my energies on the “most popular” social media sites namely: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Bebo. I dabble with other social media sites (who doesn’t watch YouTube?) but lately these [...]
Facebook is perhaps the best site to place ads right now since it is a hot place to which has grown out of proportion. Catering towards social networking and offering exposure for programmers and of course advertisers, businesses that are looking for good traffic would be wise to place their money on Facebook for now. [...]
I have written about not depending solely on social media platforms for your business. That is not to say that you should not jump into the bandwagon. I was merely pointing out that it is not wise to simply rely on one venue. Experts still see social media as one big way to reach the [...]
Want to get to get Dugg in Digg? Aside from the usual advice of making sure you have very interesting and viral content and of course the title to capture people’s attention (your content might be great but with a boring title no one will even give it a shot) here are some tips I’ve [...]
