Twitter Latest Tools to Help Your Social Media Goals Are you looking for new apps to enhance your Twitter experience? Twitter has turned into a major real-time news source and is no longer a procrastination tool. In order for us to filter and manage the ever-dynamic Twitter, a number of new apps have emerged. This article will cover five new tools to help make it easier for you to reach your social media goals and help you keep up with the “latest” on Twitter. Five New Twitter Tools ...

Learn From the Best Small Business Blogs A company blog is a useful tool for small businesses hoping to give others a glimpse into the company while also promoting the company’s products and services. While it’s never a good idea to spam readers with irrelevant promotional messages, there are plenty of ways to provide valuable information and resources to existing and potential customers. Here are five small businesses that are using a blog to reach local communities and showcase th...

Take Heed To These 6 Common Email Marketing Mistakes If email seems a little old school to you, you’re right. Email turns 40 this year, and it’s being outpaced by texting, instant messaging and Facebook messaging. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed out last year, email is too much of a “cognitive load” for younger people. Yet you probably haven’t given up your Gmail account yet, have you? That’s because, despite the stigma of being a middle-aged technology, email is still ...

Improve Your LinkedIn Account! Very Easy! If you’ve ever come across the problem where you feel that you’re not being received well through social media networking sites, it’s probably a much easier fix that you’d think. Most of the time, if you feel you’re being ignored, it is most likely by accident, as in the person doesn’t know they are ignoring you. I mean, put yourself in their position, do you keep up with every little request, update or message? Typically, we’re t...

Article Marketing Do's and Don'ts for Promoting Your Websites You have heard the term “Article Marketing” many times and are hopefully publishing your articles to many websites and educating many people. Article marketing is an art and there are dos and don’ts when it comes to their success. Electronic article marketing is not any different than traditional marketing. The principles upon which it stands are identical to traditional marketing. The objective of the articles that are be...

High Quality Web Design - The Key For Growth and Recognition in Web World Web Design is the creation of an effective interface between technology and people which allows people to present their information and use it for meaningful purposes. Web Design is similar to creating other designs, but the difference of web designing from other designing lies in the technical knowledge of few web building tools, languages and requirements of designing. In Web Designing special care is to be given to ...

Social Media Medium to Business Grow - Lesson from Dell   Dell has made a lot of money using social media. You might think that a major company like Dell doesn’t need “little” Facebook or Twitter. If that’s your thinking, you still don’t get it regarding social media, and you’re missing opportunities to grow your business as a result. Dell has dedicated an entire department to social media, and while you as a one-person shop or two-person team cannot, there are still many ...

LinkedIn One of the Fastest Growing Business  Social Networking Site Have you been ignoring LinkedIn? Hope not. On March 22nd, LinkedIn announced a rather significant milestone: 100 million members. To quote the blog post announcing it, “We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member per second.” At 100 million members, as a social network, LinkedIn is simply too big not include...

Increase Traffic To Your Blog Do you want to grow your blog? Are you looking for new ways to attract and retain more readers? We asked expert bloggers for their best tips on how to grow your list of blog subscribers. 17 Tips to Increase list of Blog Subscribers Here are their best tips. I think you’ll agree there are some excellent ideas here. #1: Be Active in Other Communities First Here’s what Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels of Separation and the blog at Twist Image, recommends: ...

Promote Your Podcasts for Business Benefits Search engines favor podcasts above written content on websites. If you enjoy speaking more than you do writing, you should be podcasting. It’s easy to do from home, and you don’t need to build a studio to start your own show. All you need is a telephone and Internet access to use broadcasting services like BlogTalkRadio. You can also download free audio editing software, like Audacity, to improve the quality of your podcasts. Effectiveness of ...

Coca-Cola Makes Social Media Marketing Easy for the Rest of Us 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 don’t:  Social media marketing is powerful, and you can generate more sales if you know how to use ...

Get People To Like Your Brand's Facebook Page Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. Once your brand is on Facebook, the question becomes: How you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and tr...