LinkedIn has been on a roll in the last year, tweaking its services and recently, I got my first look at the changes they have made to Contacts. The social networking site has now made it easy to bring together all of your address books, emails and calendars and keep them up to date in … Continue reading »
Answer by Robert Scoble: It is a threat, but only in the long-term if the others don’t react quickly. I’ve used the new search engine quite a bit. Yes, it is disruptive to many of those competitors. Just so you know where I’m coming from, I study how others use Facebook and have built several … Continue reading »
Twitter seems very confusing to a lot of small business owners. But there are ways to successfully market your products and services to your followers. Here are some tips to get you started:
Do you use Ping.fm to schedule posts on Facebook, Twitter, etc.? If you haven’t checked your email lately, you may have missed the notice that Ping.fm will be closing in mid-June.
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Only 12% of your friends see your average status update, but Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight” that lets you pay a few dollars to have one of your posts appear to more friends. Highlight lets the average user, not Pages or businesses, select an “important post” and “make sure friends … Continue reading »
From time to time in this blog, I’ve shared different tips and strategies for using Twitter and other social networking sites to grow your business. Whether it’s retweeting other people’s blog articles, or doing a #FollowFriday shoutout, using Twitter and social media successfully comes down to one main concept: it’s all about building relationships. That … Continue reading »
One way to engage your Twitter community and promote your business at the same time is to run a contest. If you choose to give away a prize, you can tweet about it, or you can use a free service to help you promote it like Tweetsw.in.
How many times have you heard that Facebook is killing email? Don’t believe it for a second. Social Media Strategist Jay Baer was the keynote speaker at the SocialFresh EAST Social Media Conference this week and he mentioned a couple of interesting statistics in his speech: #1 – 58% of adults check their email first thing in the morning, while only … Continue reading »
If you want to use LinkedIn to grow your business, make sure your profile is set up correctly, and don’t make the mistakes mentioned in this article. 5 Ways to Undermine Your Linkedin Profile | Social Media Today.
Here’s some good news for Facebook page admins who rely on third party tools like Hootsuite to schedule posts. Any post that gets shared on your page is being registered by Facebook Insights. A couple of weeks ago, I reported that Facebook had removed the “share” button from posts that came from a third party … Continue reading »