Marketing
Facebook Takes Over Gowalla For An Undisclosed Sum Of Money
Facebook Inc. has snapped up the Gowalla, as reported by CNN Money, though none of the companies has practically confirmed about the acquisition taking place on the last Friday. Gowalla, an Austin-based company, revived a couple of years back as a service providing social location sharing facilities but it has recast itself recently as a [...]
Facebook Founder To Admit ‘Bunch Of Mistakes’ In Privacy U-turn
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, has admitted that Facebook made “a bunch of mistakes” regarding privacy and he has agreed to overhaul company’s privacy policy in order to make a major change after the regulatory criticism from Federal Trade Commission of U.S.A. Writing in a blog post, facebook founder has said that he founded his social [...]
Should You Have a Google+ Business Page?
I’ve been experimenting with Google+ Business Pages and recently blogged about how to set up a Google+ Page quickly and easily. But should you create a Google+ page for your business? Here are some of my thoughts on the topic: Why you may not want a Google+ Page 1. It is one more place to post. 2. It is [...]
Google Done With 7 More Products
The “spring clean at the end of the season” has brought an end to various services such as Google Wave, Google Gears, and Knoll. The US software firm has announced the elimination of many of its products for the 3rd time. This announcement may be the outcome of recent failure encountered by the company .Experts predicted [...]
Did You Get Vouched for on Connect.me?
Have you received a DM on Twitter or Facebook saying you were vouched for? It’s connect.me - a private beta plaform in a simple and socially-verified way to share your reputation and connect with respected people across the social web. Connect.me uses your social login from Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn and not an email address like most other social websites. [...]
Facebook Porn Spammers Identified
Facebook has identified the spammers responsible for the recent scandal of violent pornographic image posting on facebook. Facebook Inc. has commented that its legal team will ensure that righteous consequences follow”. Statements were made right after the reveal of objectionable porn materials, images containing intolerable violence, and unreal celebrity photos like young music icon Justin [...]
Clash of Titans: Facebook Vs Google+
Ever since Google has come out with the Google+ for commercial purposes on last Monday, the online tycoon has started to encounter heat for not providing enterprises with basic tools on the primary offering. Meanwhile, industry analysts ponder that Google+ might have found a profitable niche in the online social networking business among the enterprise users. There has been [...]
Amazon Increases Orders for Kindle Fire Tablet to 5 Million
Faced with greater than expected demand, Amazon has increased orders for its Kindle Fire tablet to a total of five million by the end of the year, according to a new report out of the Far East. Taiwanese publication DigiTimes noted the figures on Thursday, citing sources within “upstream component suppliers.” Based on recent tablet estimates from research group [...]
Google Reader’s New Interface
The new Google Reader interface is finally here and it also brings some functional changes: all the social features are removed and replaced by a Google +1 button. It’s important to note that clicking the +1 button only adds the page to your Google Profile and you need to click the “share on Google+” box to share [...]
Seo Services In The UK To Improve The Online Visibility Of Your Site
PPC PPC campaign management is still a very important part of SEO. There are a number of Search Engine Optimization and Management Plans Pay-per-click. This gives way to a site of great online marketing. SEO services are very useful for improving the online visibility of a website. In this age of automation and social networking, [...]
3 Weapons To Help You Defeat Procrastination While Blogging
As a professional blogger, you face several unconventional business challenges: trying toimprove your SEO ranking, finding ways to reach more readers, discovering the best social media marketing strategies. But the challenge that every blogger faces on a daily basis, no matter how experienced or inexperienced they are, is an insidious beast that comes from within—Procrastination. We’ve all had [...]
5 Ways To Make Money As An Affiliate Marketer Using The Internet
Most people start out in affiliate marketing selling other people’s products. This is one way to make money, but it is not the only way. As a matter of fact some people make money with affiliate marketing and never sell any products at all. Most people start out in affiliate marketing selling other people’s products. [...]
Film-specific blogs and inbound marketing
Sheri Candler has a pretty good post up about using blogs as part of an independent filmmaker’s inbound marketing strategy, the first in a series on that topic. Sheri makes some good points but I’ll chime in on some of them with what I’ve learned from my own experience. Some of the mistakes she says to avoid [...]
THE INTERNET MARKETING PROCESS IN SIX STEPS
HAVING A WEB SITE ISN’T ENOUGH You may have invested a considerable amount building a professional looking web site, but that investment won’t pay off unless you use the Internet to effectively market your business. Building a web site and doing Internet marketing are two completely different things. You’ve probably visited a few web sites [...]
Which Printed Marketing Materials Are Better Left to The Experts
It has been repeatedly said that printed marketing materials are still important in business despite the prevalence of online marketing opportunities. So, if you are new in the industry, it would be to your best interest to still invest in printed materials so you can enjoy the best of both worlds. There are several printed materials you can invest [...]
Social Media Marketing Isn’t a Popularity Contest
For social media marketers it must be about monetizing their social media activities. Part of the inspiration for this approach comes from Wilson Kerr who made a stellar presentation last week on the subject of monetizing mobile media—more about that later.David Carter’s presentation the week before, based on the Social Funnel ebook from Awareness, laid the groundwork. In [...]
Not Using Viral Marketing Could Kill Your Business!
With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized. It does not matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it does not matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just [...]
4 Tips to Keep Your Email List Squeaky Clean
This is a guest post written by Heather Bonura. Heather is the director of brand strategy for Lititz, PA-based email marketing firm, Listrak. We all know that email marketing is continually evolving. Subscribers are savvier, and therefore, we need to get more targeted. But many marketers still haven’t adjusted their email strategies to be truly effective. It’s no [...]
5 Valuable Content Creation Skills for Stellar Inbound Marketing
This is a guest post written by Ann Ehnert. Ann is a marketing coordinator at SteadyRain, an internet strategy, design, and development firm. Remember in high school when you turned in that mid-term paper, complete with perfect citation, informational graphs, and exactly 1,256 words, per your instructor’s syllabus? Not only do you breathe a sigh of [...]
Is Selling In An Online Marketplace a Good Idea?
Many online entrepreneurs that want to sell products on the internet are wondering whether it is better to build an e-commerce site, or to sell your products on an online marketplace such as Amazon and eBay for physical products and ClickBank for digital items. There are quite a few advantages to use a marketplace for [...]
