How You Use Social Media Can Kill Your Business

The social media movement has expanded the number of people we can reach and connect with on a personal level. The new relationships and connections we create with people all over the world can have a profound effect on our personal and business growth. We learn about cultures and nations that we were, perhaps, previously […]

7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

Tinu AbayomiPaul First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage. A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well. An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to […]

Cutting Rank: How an Improper Domain Name Redirect Can Forfeit Your Top Rankings

By Tom Shivers Can my site rank better with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure. Can my site rank better without a keyword in the domain name at all? Absolutely. I get questions (or assumptions) like this regularly. Actually, there are many other things going on behind the scenes that impact rank, and the domain name […]

What Is Twitter All About?

By Phyllis Zimbler Miller If you want to take advantage of the opportunities on the microblogging platform Twitter, start off doing thing correctly. Let’s look at how you join: You join for free at www.twitter.com and here are some important tips about signing up: Choose your username carefully. Although you can now change it easily, […]

Social Media Marketing / Do Not Make These Mistakes

By Enzo F. Cesario The Cluetrain Manifesto asserts that “Markets are Conversations.” The Manifesto is a document published in 1999 and 10 years later is still considered to be an outstanding treatise on the Internet phenomenon – in regards to the impact and opportunities of Internet and web technology on the modern businessman. Nowhere has […]

How Much Can Social Bookmarking Really Do For Your Website?

By: Stephanie Foster Lately I’ve become fascinated with social bookmarking. It’s a vital part of any Web2.0 website marketing strategy, and being discovered through social bookmarks can mean floods of traffic. The catch is that the traffic isn’t always buying or clicking traffic, but it can be traffic that build backlinks to your site. It […]

The Magic Of Joomla Modules In Social Networking

By: Ron McNeil Joomla is open source software so it is easily accessible by everyone and you can enjoy the Joomla experience. Since Joomla is constructed on technology that is open source, Joomla provides its users with more freedom then other scripts and software’s. You will find its design very well acquiescent. You can easily […]

3 Tried-n-True Ways to Decide Which Social Media Tools to Use

By Lani and Allen Voivod At a recent Social Media-themed breakfast event for New Hampshire’s Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, one speaker (Leslie Poston, co-author of Twitter for Dummies) told the assembled audience there were 537 different social networking sites online. 537! And that doesn’t even count all the networks on Ning and other services […]

Do You Splog or Blog? – Affiliate Marketers with WordPress Beware

By: Cynthia Mosher If you are just getting started creating an affiliate marketing business online one of the easiest was to do so is to get a blog at WordPress.com. It’s free, it’s easy, and you can be up and running in minutes. However, an affiliate marketing blog on WordPress.com can be shut down before […]

What I've Learned from Facebook

Author: Hamidah Gul Facebook has created a unique way of maintaining your friends in a virtual hangout. With Facebook, you can send someone a virtual gift, hug, food, and even money! A friend just sent me a cool $10 in Facebook. Now what can I get with that? Virtually nothing. Still if you are a […]

You Must Use Social Media to Promote Your Brand

If you think Twitter, Facebook, and other online social media communities are only for teens, you’re missing out on valuable and free marketing platforms for your brand (book, business or product). Further, if you’re not on social media, you’re risking losing your own potential clients/customers to those smart business people who are utilizing social media. […]

The Next Evolution of Social Media

By Jennifer Osborne If you aim to establish your site as a serious ecommerce player, here are 3 things you need to do: Create and put up a privacy policy. Process orders on a secure server. Get 3rd party verification to increase credibility. Each is easy to do – but many ecommerce newbies underestimate their […]