February 10, 2012

Anti-Blogs Explained & Why You Should Care

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It’s unnerving as a small business owner to think that some customer out there would invest their spare time in writing a blog that defames, slanders or tells the shameful truths about your company. The Internet is powerful, and the little guy can use it to take out revenge against anyone they don’t like, include [...]

Know What Your Competitors Are Up To

Analyzing the Data

Social media marketing takes up enough time as it is when you’re a small business owner, especially if it’s all up to you to get it done. You may hate the thought of adding one more task to your to-do list, but knowing what your competitors are up to is critical if you want all [...]

Does AOL’s Sale Of Bebo Prove That Social Media Is Too Much Hype?

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“We will be a social media powerhouse. This deal is a game-changer,” said former AOL CEO Randy Falco on a conference call in March 2008, regarding its purchase of social media network Bebo for $850 million. It was supposed to be the rival to Facebook. Just two years later, AOL has sold BEBO to an [...]

Coca-Cola Makes Social Media Marketing Easy for the Rest of Us

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Coca-Cola is so famous, and infamous, that it’s a currency in at least one country. There are very few people on the planet left that are not familiar with the brand, and yet the company feels compelled to establish its brand on social media channels. Coca-Cola seems to understand something that struggling small business owners [...]

What Yahoo! and Facebook Integration Means to Small Business

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Yahoo! and Facebook are combining forces to make social media even more accessible to users. If you use Yahoo! Mail for sending and receiving emails, you’re probably used to checking it multiple times per day. Imagine being able to post content on Facebook when you get to your Yahoo! page, or being able to find [...]

3 Social Media Promotion Mistakes to Avoid

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Social media promotions help to breathe life into your marketing efforts, if you do them right. It will have the opposite effect if you make mistakes, which can drive people away. Mistake #1: Don’t Announce Winners The assumption that most people will draw when you don’t announce winners to your giveaways or contents is that [...]

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