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Small businesses can win over their local audience and gain new customers by utilizing social media marketing. Just because you aren’t a big corporation you can still create a Facebook presence and market your small business online, and for a small to free budget! Here are some simple steps and actions to follow to start building your Facebook following! 1.) Customize a strategy- First, think of the basic goals you want to achieve from your Fan Page. Do you want[...] Continue Reading
What Happened to my Facebook News Feed? Facebook has made updates again and has politely included instructions & explanations as to why and how. Here is the basic breakdown of what has changed: 1) Since you have last logged on to Facebook, all of the news & photos they think you will find most interesting is displayed at the top. Facebook has now marked these top stories with a blue corner. 2) Photos are now bigger in your news feed![...] Continue Reading
Facebook has rolled out another new feature called the Subscribe button! The purpose behind the button is to “subscribe” to people you are in interested in and fine tune your news feed. For example, if you have a certain celebrity or political figure you like to hear from, you can subscribe to their public updates and they will appear in your news feed. You can also pick and choose what types of updates and posts you want to view. So[...] Continue Reading
Over 25 million people have migrated over to using Google+. Beating Facebook for the title of the fastest growing social network, Google+ comes with some features that also provide some hefty competition! I know it is difficult to go onto a new social network where most of your friends might have not switched to the other side, but Google+ has created some unique features to make you consider leaving Facebook behind… 1) Circles- This feature lets you organize your contacts[...] Continue Reading
Since the reveal of the Hacker Group Anonymous claiming to “kill” Facebook on November 5, 2011, Facebook has made big privacy changes for its users. The Hacktivist groups reasoning for the attack was based off of users not choosing stronger privacy settings, and Facebook taking advantage of people’s information. Anonymous has been known for hacking 70 law enforcement websites and the Syrian Ministry of Defense website as well. So how should you use Facebook’s privacy changes? First off, Facebook is[...] Continue Reading
Get ready Facebook because your first real competitor is about to hatch. Did you know that more people are using Google’s websites than Facebook every month…but when it comes to the brass tacks for businesses Facebook blows them out of the water. So what is the search engine giant going to do about this? They have created Google+ which is in developing and testing stages to take on Facebook and bring new innovative social media tools to the table through[...] Continue Reading
On Monday in Singapore, it was decided by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that they would allow new domain endings other than the popular .com, .org, and .net! This was a historic moment in Internet history. “ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to[...] Continue Reading
Comments from this ridiculousness… “IRS should not use Social Media to verify information! People probably lie more on those sites than their taxes!” “Start complaining how poor you are on Facebook!” “umm yea, I’m glad I am not on Facebook…” “35% of Americans have online regrets, well now this makes that fact higher!” Tax Evasion Criminals beware… stay off of social media or you will get caught! Last December, a lawsuit was filed by the EFF and UC Berkley’s Samuelson[...] Continue Reading
Source: www.inc.com Social Media users can now earn deals through a social rewards program when you tweet or post to Facebook! Social Rewards is a new loyalty-marketing program that rewards points when you tweet or post to Facebook about brands that you like. For example, you can earn five points for a Tweet and up to 250 points if your share or post leads to a room being booked! Brands who have existing loyalty programs and companies who want to[...] Continue Reading
In today’s world of mass communication, a company logo is your link to the public’s mind. If you are not in the back of their head when they think of the industry leader for whatever product or service needed, then you are not going to make money. Logos are so important because businesses are now using them to create an unforgettable brand identity. Logo’s can take on many forms, being as simple as a logotype or wordmark, or being a[...] Continue Reading
