Social Media Technology Tears Down Traditional Marketing Temple Walls

Integrating social media technology to improve user engagement and acquisition has become a way of life for website owners today. Even Fortune 1000 companies know that they must integrate social media into their websites too. While marketing temples have been built in the past, which some marketers believed the walls to be unassailable – social... [Read more ⇒]

Car Manufacturers Turn To Twitter

Twitter Tuesday Tip of the Week: Learning from the Big Guys on Twitter: What works for them can work for the little guy too! Cramming anything meaningful at all about a car into 140 characters would seem difficult and particularly from major car manufacturers, but its not and people are interested. It may seem strange but big name auto manufacturers... [Read more ⇒]

Social Network Overload!

Ok so here’s a funny albeit, interesting take on the way social networking can start to overrun our daily lives. I am a total proponent of the power of social networking, but never the less this is very funny. Think social networking sites are fun and useful? See what happens when things get a little out of control for one social networker who... [Read more ⇒]

The Business Value Of Social Networking

Great interview on Forbes,com with John McCrea, head of marketing for Plaxo, which manages 40 million online address books, to learn why entrepreneurs need to get into the game, how to do it and where this is all going. John McCrea: There are a few phases to social networking. The first phase was Friendster, MySpace and clones and it was pretty frivolous.... [Read more ⇒]

9 Simple Steps to a Successful Facebook Event

One of the most productive things you can do on Facebook is to create an event. The numbers of Facebookers taking advantage of this great marketing tool are increasing every month. Your event could be a live event (a Business or Small Business mixer, a networking event or Seminar, etc), a teleclass or tele-seminar or even a recorded presentation. By... [Read more ⇒]

Ning and the Art of the Viral Spiral

There is a great article in the new Fast Company Magazine all about the do it yourself social network “”Ning”. The article begins by letting us in on a little secret: Here’s something you probably don’t know about the Internet: Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a billion-dollar business from... [Read more ⇒]

Don’t Just Bookmark it, Ka-Boom It!

One of the greatest opportunities you have to market your website online is by using social bookmarking sites to, yes to bookmark your website. There are a lot of choices out there for this and a few rise above the crowd. One of those is Ka-Boom-It. Ka-Boom-It is a Social Bookmarking site for news and information. They are VERY Internet Marketer... [Read more ⇒]

200+ Social Networking sites for your viewing pleasure

I figured since I had absolutely nothing better to do I’d compile a list of social networking sites. 230 or so. . . Enjoy, explore, good night, good luck TECHNOLOGY: Slashdot Dzone – Developers CSS Globe DNHour – Domain Name News Pixel Groovy – Web design Design Float – Web design Leet Daily DevelopersNiche INTERNET... [Read more ⇒]

The Music Biz Goes Viral

 This is from an article in Billboard Magazine. It talks about viral marketing an how the music biz is working to capitalize on it. This year saw the emergence of a new buzzword in the digital music space — widgets. Next year, we’ll see if they do any good. An offshoot of the global social networking trend, widgets are small applications... [Read more ⇒]

Five tips for Increasing Your Business with Zaadz

Zaadz is a social network like MySpace or Facebook. People can open an account, network with others, author blogs, add friends and lots of other things. What Zaadz does a little differently is that they put a new meaning on the word “Social” in the social networking world. Social in the sense that they care about our world and it’s... [Read more ⇒]

10 Steps to Marketing Your Business on Facebook

There are a bunch of social media websites that you can become a part of today like Myspace and Twitter, and they all have their good and bad. The best way to choose a community to become a part of is to evaluate the people who are members. In my opinion, Facebook is one of the best internet meeting places for networking – both personally and... [Read more ⇒]

Facebook in the LA Times

Finally an article in the mainstream press that gets it. In today’s Los Angeles Times there is (was, if your reading this another day) a very goood article about Facebook. The article, titled: Heads are turning to Facebook really does a great job of explaining the position that Faceboook finds itself in today. As The Article explains, Facebook... [Read more ⇒]

Facebook: “We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial”

Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. Oh really. . . MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative. Silicon Alley Insider reported the MySpace rumor earlier today. We’ve confirmed that from an independent source, as well as the fact that... [Read more ⇒]