Facebook Fan Pages – A Must for Businesses
It used to be that a website was all a business needed to have an Internet presence. Not anymore. While a website is still an important feature of promoting your business, it is no longer enough. To reach your customers, you must go where your customers are: Web 2.0 or the social web. The social web has become an essential part of a successful marketing plan.
Facebook is the leader of the pack in the social media arena. According to TechCrunch in November 2008, more than one in five people who used the Internet visited Facebook. The growth of Facebook has increased ever since, and likewise, has become essential for business marketing. This new style of customer contact requires implementing new and innovative ideas when it comes to marketing.
What Can a Blog Do For You?
Many aspiring writers have tossed around the idea of writing a blog, and many millions get going. After a slow start in the late 1990s, blogs caught on. Today, though, they are no longer the simple online diary or weblog of the past.
Blogs have changed dramatically from the early years. Governments and big business have entering the blogging world. Blogs are now a focus of social media marketing and sales pitches. Microblogging via Twitter is currently today’s “big thing.” For some, the blog has lost its innocence and with it, much of its charm. For others, blogging presents all sorts of opportunities, from democratizing journalism to selling goods. Anyone contemplating starting a blog today would do well to get a grip on how different – and how difficult – successful blogging is now.
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Generating Free Blog Traffic via Blogger Forums
Blog forums are great ways to generate free traffic to your blog. You know for a fact that you won’t be beating a dead horse since all the users are there because of a shared interest in the topic.
Some examples of such forums include Blogger Forum, Bloggeries and Blogst Forum. A Google search will yield a vast number of results. Be sure to check how active any forum is prior to registration — that way you can start with the busiest.
Remember to carefully read any forum’s rules prior to posting and abide by them. Also, don’t spam the boards with multiple posts just containing the link to your blog. All that will do is alienate potential visitors.
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Social Media Marketing – Basic Terms
The Internet provides an incredible opportunity for companies and businesses to reach their target audiences in a wide variety of ways. Using social media and networks to connect with customers is one of the fastest growing areas of Internet marketing. Some of the language used in social media is new and can be confusing. Following is a list of some of the more common terms and their definitions.
Speak Up and Make Money! – January 2010
Welcome 2010!
Well it’s finally here … 2010. I’m not trying to “date” myself, but I remember watching movies when I was younger about the year 2010, and they were all about building colonies on the moon and other planets being taken over by alien robots and other far out Sci-Fi ideas. While we may not have colonies on the moon or other planets, the Internet has certainly changed our lives in ways that weren’t even imagined 10 years ago. Back when I was watching those movies about living on distant planets, the idea of being able to conduct business all over the world … without ever leaving my home sounded just as farfetched to me. Look at Twitter. Business relationships are being formed and developed 24-hours-a-day, all over the world by something as simple as a program that will allow you to send 140 character or less messages back and forth via your computer or phone. It all started with a simple question: “What are you doing?” Imagine that!
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