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Social Networks, WAYN.com and Momondo.com Merge
There are numerous social networks online that center around traveling, booking travel excursions and users giving their opinions about various places they’ve traveled. Users frequent...
10 Tips for Building Your Online Business and Keeping It Alive
Obviously, you want your online business to succeed instead of flop. Like most business efforts, you have to learn what to do – very few...
The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)
Let’s face it, we tweet a lot. Most of us have a great habit of sharing any interesting article we come across. And I am...
Renren.com Social Network Gaining on Facebook
In China, Facebook social networking services are banned by Chinese authorities from developing an online presence in the country. With over 500 million registered users...
Attention Traditional Companies: Stop Trying!
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hesitant on writing this article because I felt that I might end up feeding the ranting mill,...
The Group Buying Effect
Group buying and daily deals have increased exponentially in the past year or two- and they will only grow larger. The benefits on both side...
Tool Alert! Create a Twitter Digest to Easier Keep Up with Your Closest Friends
Keeping up with your social media contacts is one of the most important steps in building online presence. But how not to get lost and...
Google Becomes Social – Twitter Flickr And Quora Are All Invited
The search giant Google has thrown its hat into the social networks ring. With social networks growing and expanding wildly, Google has decided to get...
5 Reasons To Create A Facebook Fan Page AND 5 Reasons Not To
While I’ve been known to ramble on and on, I’m going to keep this one short and simple. Shocking, I know! 5 Reasons You Should...
Laymen's Terms for Analytics? What Could You Expound On?
Although a very broad term, analytics is a word people hear quite often in the business world. That is because analytics is extremely important to...
Social Media ROI, Automation, Monitoring and the Woman Scorned
Stark, raving mad and angry enough to do some damage. That was me after having what started out as a quick, pleasant Q & A....
Do You Know When Your Customers Participate the Most? Part 1
This is a question I ask myself all of the time and make a point to analyze with any data I can get my hands...
Facebook Updates Fan Pages (Finally Does Something Right)
On Thursday February 10, Facebook made some much anticipated changes to their Fan Pages. For a good part of the day, confusion reigned supreme. Some...
Google Is Coming Back to China
Google’s mission is to provide information as freely and fully as possible to all the people of the world. Nevertheless, right now there are 1.2...
Social Media and the Law
Last year, my wife finished law school in New York’s capital. As a member of the American Bar Association, she receives their monthly ABA Journal,...
TrustHop: Empowering Consumers by Mixing Social Search with Local Service Quoting
A key premise of social search is that the people you know and trust are the best sources of personally relevant and reliable information. As...
Social Signals in SEO? Who Cares
When smart people interview search engineers and hear a cryptic explanation about a potentially new ranking signal – or review a Google patent application –...
What Is a Twitter Chat and How to Make the Most of It
Twitter is used for many purposes including staying in touch with friends and promoting corporate identities. If you are new to the Twitter world or...
Twitter Killer? Why Your Business Should Make a Facebook Group
Facebook launched their newer version of Facebook Groups back in October 2010. But it wasn’t until the last couple months of being personally involved in...
Should Facebook Ads Replace Your AdWords Campaign?
Now that Facebook has officially passed Google as the most visited site on the web, their advertising platform becomes more attractive than ever. However, even...
Online Business Promotion That Works: SEO, Copywriting and Social Media
The fact that people use SEO copywriting services really isn’t earth shattering news. How each business uses those services and/or tools is really up to...
Creating the Perfect Facebook Experience
Last week I was talking to my Dad about a company he has been invested in for quite some time. He asked me what I...
Social Media BOOM & Other Web Use Figures from 2010
If you pull everything in a computer far back enough, what you’ll wind up with is nothing more than a sequence of numbers — zeros...
How to Get Facebook Fans: The Easy Way and The Hard Way
Have you ever found an easy and superior way to do something, then watched in bafflement as people insist on doing it the hard way?...
Top 5 Car Execs to Use Twitter
Top executives enjoy using Twitter because it gives them an opportunity to connect directly with an audience that is too often distanced by countless layers...
Android and Facebook : Teaming Up?
What is the “one real threat to Google”? If you answered Facebook, well, you probably already know my opinion. Still, there’s no denying that Facebook and Google...
Google’s Follow Finder Lab Helps Twitter
It’s true that Google has its own social networking, although those of you who haven’t heard of or signed up for Google Buzz aren’t missing...
Why Facebook’s “Threat” to Google Is Overestimated
Anyone paying attention to the web industry has probably heard Facebook touted as the “one real threat to Google.” Facebook has reached more page views...
Blekko & Bing: Making Search Social
Facebook and Google are the two giants of the Internet world right now. As Facebook gradually crept up in numbers on Google, analysts jumped to...
SMS Marketing Conversions From Facebook and Twitter
Although text message marketing isn’t my specialty, I’ve been hearing some impressive results. I had an opportunity to interview with Justin Rockwell of OIR Interactive...