The June numbers have been crunched, and LinkedIn officially passed MySpace to become the number two social networking site in the U.S.
According to ComScore,Facebook was the number one social networking site with 160.9 million visitors in June. LinkedIn followed with 33.9 million visitors.
By now most of you are very aware of Google Plus and at least have a general idea of what it is about. For those of you who do not here is a run down of what the hype is all about. Continue reading »
Next four months leading up to today. Google develops Google Offers, Groupon’s direct competition, Groupon suffers extreme controversy for their politically incorrect riskay Super Bowl ads. Watch out Groupon, Google is coming for you..
Google Offers is starts in 6 different locations East Bay Area/Oakland, CA, San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR, and NYC’s uptown, midtown, and downtown. Google Offers is promising 50% off or more to places you love in the cities/areas you subscribe to. Continue reading »
So much for being hush-hush this topic is currently trending on Twitter with millions on the craze. I’m actually losing my opportunity right now just taking the time to get this blog out in hope to share to the 3 people in the world that has not heard yet.. (I’m sweating). Just joking, no but really some background info:
We are asked all the time by small companies if they should advertise on Yelp or even pay attention to Yelp at all. In our opinion, the answer depends on the type of company you have.
The first answer (regardless of your company type) is yes, pay attention to Yelp. You probably have a Yelp listing weather you want one or not, so at least take control of your Yelp account and set it up right. You also want to keep an eye on it and see if and what kind of reviews you might be getting. We’ve seen many times when a company has had a half dozen reviews on their company and didn’t even know it. Sometimes this has been good news and sometimes very bad news when the reviews were negative or about another company, thought to be yours! Also, Yelp listings rank pretty well on Google, so you can enhance your social media presents and search engine rankings by making sure your Yelp account is setup right with the right company information and key words. Continue reading »
You can add value to your blog by adding links and pictures. Links add a lot of value to your blog and are necessary to direct that blog traffic to other places that you really want them to go and or add more value to the blog by providing access to more information. Like your websites and or other social sites. Also use links to give any source you may have used for your blog credit. Most people or companies don’t mind you using their information as long as you give them credit. Another good way to add value to your blog is posting photos. Pictures can make your blog a lot more fun, interesting, and attractive.
“It’s about making sure that we do our job every day to give those fans some sort of meaningful value,” she said. “Having 10 million people on Facebook who like us would be useless if we did nothing with it.”
Social Media and Social Networking Marketing is here and working Social media transforms from just a place to post your personal chatter to a place to that’s smart to market… Continue Reading »
What does it cost to get great search engine optimization (SEO) work done these days?
It would be a good idea to seize the initiative and begin to realize the benefits afforded by social marketing!