May 16, 2012

Twitter Monetizes Via Promoted Tweets

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Twitter has unveiled another way it intends to monetize the website: Promoted Tweets. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, shared questions and answers regarding Promoted Tweets on his blog. Stone had this to say about the new service: You will start to see Tweets promoted by our partner advertisers [Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, [...]

Social Media Grabs 75% of Internet Users…Do You?

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Of course not. It’s impossible as a small business owner to capture 100 percent of the people online who use social media. At the same time, you should be working toward one percent, then 10 percent and keep going. As a business owner, you cannot afford to miss the opportunity to get more customers. If [...]

Lead Generation Using Social Media

Svilen Milev

Small business should think one thing when they hear about the large number of people using social media everyday: lead generation. Whether you’re looking for leads for new customers or new employees, getting on board the social media interview is where it’s at. Reuters published the results of a recent survey showing that Microsoft employees [...]

Useful Questions to Ask When Getting Started with Social Media

Sanja Gjenero

The  overwhelming amount of information available about social media might make you dizzy as you try to think about how to get started. There are many options, and choosing where to focus your efforts  is sometimes difficult. As a small business owner or sole entrepreneur, you probably don’t have a large team dedicated to social [...]

Facebook is Spinning a Plan to be the Social Center of the Web

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Facebook revealed its plan to become center of the social web today at the F8 Developer Conference in San Fransisco, CA. They announced the Open Graph API protocol as well as the ability to integrate websites and apps on the web all within the boundaries of your social network making the platform even stronger than [...]

Adding a Tag / Label Cloud to Your Blogger Account

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Tag clouds have become more popular as websites begin to use them to help organize their keywords in an easy to read manner for their readers. First used by Flikr the website they have since grown. Tag clouds are a nice feature for a blog or website as it organizes major keywords into clickable links, [...]

Facebook Marketplace Monetization – Social Networking

Facebook continually grows on a constant basis with all the additions to their services. Most recently introducing the Facebook Marketplace, where users can bid and post jobs.  From Facebook credits to paid advertising, Facebook has really found a way to monetize their enormously successful social networking website. As a leader and the largest social networking [...]

Over 600 + Cities Battle It out to Become Google’s Choice for Fiber Experiment

In keeping up with current trends and being one step ahead of the competition, Google announced in February its decision to build its own high-speed fiber optic Internet network. Over 600 communities have put their name on the list to be a test site for Google Fiber and over 190,000 emails from interested individuals have [...]

How Users Can Get Back to “Digging” Digg: New Features Promise Smoother Experience on Site

Digg CEO Jay Adelson talked about the new features offered by the popular social bookmarking site at the “Bigg Digg Schindigg” hosted by the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi). Despite being unavailable at the moment, users can sign up for the Alpha version of the site by visiting Digg New.  In addition to personalized [...]

Oh the Places They Will Go: Facebook Considers Revisions to Its Privacy Policy Again

Facebook is considering making changes to its Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights once again but this time is asking for feedback from users to ensure the smooth reception of the updates. Changes include: • Location sharing.• New language related to sharing.• A breakdown of the “Everyone” setting.• Information on controlling the data being shared [...]

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