Date archive: March 2012
Is Facebook or LinkedIn Best for Business?
Facebook or LinkedIn? If you had to pick one for business, would it be Facebook or LinkedIn? Arguments can be easily made for either one of them. In order to answer that question one really needs to look at the advantages each one of these two Social Media behemoths have to offer and compare them…
7 Steps to a Pinterest Community
Pinterest. The website is one of the hottest new trends. In the age of Social Media which facilitates the rapid dissemination of information, this site has clearly gone viral. Recently the site surpassed over 11 Million unique visitors in one month, and exactly a year ago just a few people even knew it existed. Although…
3 Business Blogging Best Practices
Business Blogging is about driving traffic to your company’s website by delivering value to the reader. Hubspot has demonstrated that companies that blog receive 55% more traffic and 70% more leads compared to companies that don’t. In this new economy, having a strong internet presence is a must. If your competitors are not doing it,…
The 4 Factors of Viral Marketing
How does a picture, an article, or a video go viral? Same as the flu. That’s why it is called viral. In Biology the infection of a virus-based disease is dependent on 4 factors: Frequency, Proximity, Potency, and Incubation. These same factors contribute to the Viral nature of online content. This great video below discusses…
Historical Timeline of Search Engines [Infographic]
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Search Engines have come a long way! Long are the days of Search Engines not being able to find themselves (yes it was true). Since their inception, search engines have gone through literally though thousands of algorithms change, update, and refreshes. Some of these algorithms changes were named, and are now famous, such as Panda…
Introduction to Social Media
What is Social Media? It is the community of websites that primary focus is to SHARE. Share what? Share everything! Sharing status, likes, pictures, videos, location, anything that one desires. Social Media is an ecosystem, and the successful websites understand that they need to be able to interact and connect to each other. The landscape…