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Get a Gravatar and Show Yourself Online

OK, I know most of my readers have a Gravatar, however there are still a few of you out there that can't be bothered getting a Gravatar or don't know how. Why do you need one? When branding yourself online you don't want to half do the job. It's time to go all the way!!!

Twitter the Next Revolution of Staying Connected?

Keeping in touch with friends, relatives and associates is the need of the hour and Twitter helps you do just that. The benefits are endless including, user friendly, least time consuming and all this with just a click of the mouse...

Social Media Tips For New Media Strategic Planning

"Ye who doubts the power of social media marketing is committing self-destruction for their business." To be successful using social media for business, the business must have a social media strategic plan, budget, and goals. Without this in place and clear marketing messages, the effort w

What Can Facebook Do for Your Marketing Efforts?

At one time, all you had to do to get good placement in the SERPs and draw in tons of traffic is to place the right keywords in your blog posts and web content. In more recent times, the best strategy for most was to combine all of that off and on-site SEO with well tested and thought out PPC campai

Five Ways to Increase Productivity on Twitter

Ever since Twitter became the obsession of many, it has been accused of being a distraction, addiction, and a downright waste of time. The harsh reality is that this may all be true if you don't use the right Twitter apps and if you don't have a strategic goal in mind when you use Twitter.

Creating Facebook Fan Page Likes

When you create facebook fan page likes on your facebook you may be an organization that maintains like pages as a method of advertising. Since facebook is a social networking site it is a site that is meant for people to get to know each other online.

5 Steps to Get Started on Social Media

Social media is becoming mainstream for small businesses, there are countless success stories. The key is to commit yourself. Put a plan together, refine how you define yourself, listen, socialize and assemble the stories that humor and engage your audience.

Increased B2B Social Media Spending

Business to Business (B2B) spending on social media is set to increase significantly in the next few years. Is your company ready?

Social Bookmarking and Web 2.0 Elements

A look at how the web is evolving with new web 2.0 elements and how they can be used to get your web paged ranked and indexed.Every system needs to evolve to survive and the way the web works is no exception the new elements on the block are those strange square symbols you see at the bottom of web

List of Different Social Networks and Brief Guide to Each Part I

Did you know that in 2006, memberships to social networking websites just grew by almost 50 percent? There was a sudden rise of 68.8 million users from a mere 46.8 million unique profiles during April 2005. So what types of social networking websites are...

I Need to Find My New Friends

Quite often we do meet people and somehow we either forget to get their contact details or they somehow get lost. If you are looking for ways of locating any people that you may just have recently met, read through the following article for some ideas that you can try.

Social Media Myths Busted

Social media is, of course, big news in the business world. If you're a business owner or business leader, it's not surprising if you're feeling overwhelmed by everything you see, hear and read about how to get ahead with social media. The good news is that it doesn't have to be

Is Social Networking Good For Business?

Everywhere I go these days there's consultant after consultant telling me and anyone else who cares to listen that they have to be active on social networks in order to promote their businesses. I have a Facebook page, I have a Twitter account, I'm registered with LinkedIn and I have a blo

Why Businesses Need Social Media Agencies

More and more businesses are faced with a choice; do they use marketing and advertising agencies to launch an integrated social media campaign or do they select a social media agency. The answer is clear.

Why Sharing Content Online Is Critical

By now, you understand, to some extent, the importance of not only providing excellent-quality content but also sharing your content with as many appropriate people as possible. The more you share your content, the greater your chance of getting noticed.

Social Media Marketing - How It Can Help You

Social media marketing can be defined as the process of selling or promoting products and services through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The use of the internet's social aspect enables the social media marketer to connect and interact with the target demographic or