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How Restaurants Can Take Advantage of Social Media
In the era of online marketing, it appears that restaurants are the slowest establishments that embrace social media marketing. This could be attributed to the...
5 Ways To Supercharge Your Social Sharing With Buffer’s New Browser Extensions
Big news came out from the folks over at Buffer last week. They have announced a brand new browser extension to make sharing any page...
A Message from the Next Generation of Digital Marketers – “We hear you loud and clear about Pandas, Penguins, and Privacy”
Three weeks ago I had the chance to present to a class of seventh graders at a local middle school here in New Jersey. The...
US Welcome Badoo with Nick Cannon
Earlier today, multilingual social network Badoo was official launched in the US. Together with entertainer and TeenNick Chairman Nick Cannon, they set a massive public...
Where Our Social Media Efforts Are Best Served
For many small businesses, their ability to make a profit or keep their heads just above water hinges on being able to successfully promote their...
Pinterest Anti-Spam Measures: Are They Enough?
One of the social sharing sites experiencing great growth these days is Pinterest, an online bulletin board where users can submit their favourite images. It...
How to Use Foursquare to Get Reviews for Your Local Business
Obtaining positive reviews and testimonials is an essential component of a customer acquisition and retention strategy. According to the most recent Local Consumer Review Survey,...
Is Google+ the Unwanted of the Social Networking World
Google+ has been around for almost a year now and – shockingly enough – despite industry professionals rambling on and on about how “intuitive” and...
4 Tools for Better Pinterest Experience
Do you love Pinterest? Does it keep you up at night, staying up late to add more images to your board? Do you find yourself...
Can Social Media Pros Have Their Cake and Eat it Too?
For those of us immersed in social media, we often watch on in amazement when someone says SM is just a fad. Do they know...
How the 2012 Republican Primary Candidates are Using Social Media
There’s no arguing with the fact that social media played a major role in Obama’s 2008 presidential victory. While the McCain campaign relied on traditional...
Startups Begin ‘About Face’ RE: Facebook
Startups have to learn to walk before running toward success. Take a quick perusal of the Web; you’ll find an endless supply of tips and...
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Social Media Demographics [Infographic]
OnlineMBA.com just sent us a really interesting infographic called “A Case Study in Social Media Demographics”. I know you all see a lot of IGs,...
Think Before You Pay Too Much for Social Media Monitoring
With the meteoric rise of social media marketing, it only makes sense that tools to monitor those marketing efforts would proliferate. Paid tools run the gamut,...
Facebook’s Immunity to User Fatigue
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about social media fatigue. Research has shown that some users are simply burnt out from the phenomenon...
How to Teach Your Boss About the Social World Outside of Facebook & Twitter
Your boss finally relented and gave in to a company Facebook page. He okayed your request to join “the Twitter.” But when it comes to...
The Complete Guide To Using The Brand New Buffer For LinkedIn
There are over 200 million Tweets being posted every day on Twitter. Another 4 billion items are shared on Facebook daily. But what about LinkedIn?...
Social Media and the Millennial Brain
Social Media has become a double edged sword. It gives businesses easy access to their customers and aids in communicating with them, but at the...
StumbleUpon Brings Back Source Links and More
On December 5, 2011, StumbleUpon launched their biggest redesign ever, which streamlined a huge amount of their code, along with a number of drastic changes...
Does the Follower / Following Ratio Matter in Terms of True Influence on Twitter? [POLL]
There are Twitter users that have 25,000 followers, but they follow 24,870. Do they have true influence or does the person that has 5000 followers...
10 Companies Using Facebook To Grow Their Likes
Growing the number of “Likes” on your company’s Facebook page isn’t just a matter of pride. In fact, the social proof generated by an active...
Leveraging Pinterest: How “Pinnable” Is Your Content?
You can’t get far online right now without coming across an article about Pinterest, the hot new visual bookmarking tool. Pinterest’s growth is explosive, and...
Need a Cheat Sheet for Social Media?
Well, Flowtown made a fantastic one and we want to share it with you. Now obviously many of us do not need this cheat sheet,...
Twitter Actions Receive Seesaw Reactions
Twitter announced changes in its privacy policies, which immediately raised concerns for freedom activists in addition to writers and reporters in other lands, who feel...
Klout Myth Busters: Thoughts From the Experts
I have heard so many crazy things about Klout and I am seeing the same myths repeated over and over again. So, I asked some...
Top 10 Reasons Your Facebook Campaign Isn’t Working
To most PPC marketers, the Facebook paid ads program represents an ideal marketing opportunity. Finally, you aren’t limited to targeting your ads based on geographic...
5 Simple Ways to Explore Your Social Media Following
The larger your social media following, the greater your potential reach online. It’s this statement that leads so many businesses to work to increase the...
Facebook Actions – How It Impacts SEO
At the f8 conference in September, Facebook announced the addition of Timeline and Open Graph. These new tools let users tell a more detailed story...
Can Facebook Save Digg From Being Buried Alive?
For all of Digg’s efforts, it has really had no luck in trying to get back to its glory days, when it dominated the social...
Traffic for Google+ Goes Positive Along with User Count
Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base...