August 2009

Facebook Fan Page: Why You Need One!

Facebook created the Fan Page feature so users could promote their businesses on Facebook while keeping their personal posts separate. The ultimate goal of a Facebook Fan Page is to: provide exposure for your business, association or charitable organization create a dialogue with fans (answer questions that they post, etc…) thus showing your expertise generate [...]

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Blogging Blunders & Remedies

Blogging can be fun and it can also be a chore at times.  However, once you make the decision to start a blog for your business, you really need to stick with it.  A few things you want to avoid in your blogging are: Long gaps in time between posts (I struggle with this one [...]

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How To Use LinkedIn Recommendations & Customer Testimonials

In the eyes of a prospect, customer testimonials are the most powerful testimonials you can have!  You should get in the habit of requesting testimonials from your best customers and showcasing them on your website and social networking profiles.  LinkedIn.com makes this very easy by providing a “recommendation” request feature on their website.  Once you [...]

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Facebook Announces New Search Capabilities For Users

On August 10th Facebook started rolling out new search capability to its users.  The new features will start showing up over the next few days according to Facebook.  Here is info directly from the Facebook website: You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, [...]

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Facebook Agrees To Acquire FriendFeed

From the Facebook website: PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 10, 2009 — Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. Click here [...]

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What The F**K is Social Media: One Year Later by Marta Kagan

This is a great slide show that covers what Social Media (social networking for business) IS and IS NOT!  There’s also plenty of statistics to help convince you that you need to integrate social media into your marketing, public relations and customer service activities! If you are not sure what social media is OR are [...]

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85.3% of Twitter Account Holders Have Never Posted a Tweet!

A new report was just released by Sysomos after analyzing the activity of 11.5 million Twitter accounts.  The report covers who is using Twitter…on what days of the week…during which hours…and more.   It also reports that an astonishing 85.3% of the general Twitter population have never posted a tweet (a status update on Twitter).  Also [...]

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Hacker Attack Silences Twitter

If you are having trouble getting into Twitter today (and maybe even Facebook) this is why:   http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537653,00.html. Kimberly MarketingThatsEasy.com

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