
Everybody has a Facebook page. You have a Facebook page. Your mom has a Facebook page. Your priest has a Facebook page. … Everyone. Those few who do not are often regarded as some kind of purists; the rare elite who have refused to give in to this century’s most prevalent addiction. But even those are a dying breed, and at some point they will give in while swearing they [...]

When folks hear about online reputation management, they oftentimes have the impression it revolves around strategic public relations responses and muting Internet trolls. While your typical online reputation management company is happy to have you think their hard work goes toward such seemingly exciting endeavors, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of protecting an online image revolves around SEO fundamentals. For individuals and small businesses, most of the work that [...]

There are tons of celebrities on Twitter. Most of them have thousands, and some even millions of followers. People follow them because of one simple fact – they’re famous, and famous people attract eyeballs very quickly. Especially in the web 2.0 age, where you are one click away from being up-to-date with what’s going on with your favorite musician, for example. That being said, some of the bios those celebrities [...]

Facebook has turned into quite a phenomenon. It seems like almost anyone and everyone with internet access has an account, and this means that you can reach out to a lot of potential site visitors through this top social network. That being said, the following are just ten tips that can help you get started marketing your website on this top social network. 1. Get on Facebook NOW! Your competition [...]

In recent years, small businesses have increasingly turned to social media sites to help them achieve their marketing needs. It’s easy to see why: for a company that cannot afford a large marketing budget, social media offers the ability to reach a wide spectrum of consumers without paying a dime. The combination here of exposure and cost is a small business win-win. Towards this end, social media-savvy small businesses have [...]

In the last few years, social media networks have become increasingly important to businesses, mostly because of the opportunity of building brand awareness on a highly popular site. However, in recent years, Google has been taking social signals, including Facebook Likes, Tweets, and Google +1s, into account when calculating search engine rankings. Google and other search engines are looking at a company’s social presence, using that as a measure of [...]

A Facebook Page is now almost shorthand for managing a social networking presence altogether, yet it’s still this type of unique medium that we’re all getting our heads around. There’s no attempted and examined wrong or right approach to it, though many brands are earning the mistakes because they go and importantly gaining knowledge from these. There’s plenty of repetitive advice available for managing a good Facebook Page and. I [...]

Social networking has come a long way since the days of over-stuffed Myspace profiles and 12-hour chats on AOL Instant Messenger. The way we use social media has changed more over the course of the past ten years than we realize. Do you remember sharing videos before Youtube? How did you plan events before Facebook? What was the myspace term for “writing on someone’s wall?” Just like you’ve already forgotten [...]

Experts ranging from research managers to customer care specialists have been recently pointing to a growing trend: internet surveys, once a hugely powerful tool for tapping the mind of the consumer, are increasingly being replaced by social media. Despite the power commanded by social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, this news would still have come as a surprise just several years ago. At one point, Online Surveys were a [...]