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Are Stealing Social Media Concepts Acceptable in Business?

Posted by Dave on February 1, 2012 · 0 Comment

All is fair in love and war…and business. Do you think customers care what is going on behind the scenes, as long as their demands are met? While you struggle to maintain your very unique services or products. Transparency makes businesses vulnerable to intellectual property theft, hacking and downright photocopying, such as website designs. Search results show the vast literature available on how [...]

Category: Facebook Applications, Facebook Blog, Social Media Marketing, Social Network

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Four Social Media Gimmicks

Posted by Dave on January 30, 2012 · 0 Comment

Social websites stop at nothing to providing a funny bone to their services. On the other hand, neither do the users. Not that it’s a test of humor, for those who don’t get it. Amusement comes in all aspects, and if one can find it even in the most ridiculous or somber situations, then they will also relate to some of these latest antics on the social network that guarantee a smile at the minimum. [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing, Social Network

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Six Privacy Pointers for The Facebook Socialite

Posted by Dave on January 26, 2012 · 0 Comment

Having upgraded to the new version, Timeline, with 500+ friends on Facebook, it is no longer difficult to manage your social life. If you are wondering how to hide certain comments from certain friends, family or business associates, you will be surprised about how Facebook has countered privacy issues. They seem to have gotten deep into the mindset of their millions of users to understand and tackle [...]

Category: Facebook Applications, Facebook Blog

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5 + 5 ways to turn sour customers to sweet on Facebook

Posted by Dave on January 23, 2012 · 0 Comment

“If you have a complaint or issue with your vehicle we want to help, but we can't do it here. Please contact us in …..” That’s Ford’s statement on their Facebook page. Very tactful. Top social sites such as Facebook and Twitter have transformed companies into “your complaint is our command” genies. Back before social sites, Facebook B.C. companies printed their toll free numbers on [...]

Category: Facebook Fan Page, Social Media Marketing

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Networking your way to entrepreneurship

Posted by Dave on January 18, 2012 · 0 Comment

As with all businesses, being an entrepreneur is risky, but given the job market trends and salaries, the risks can outweigh chances of success. But the timing could not be better than it is now, thanks to social media. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook is the ideal example of entrepreneurial success. It did not come overnight nor was it sheer luck. What made it work is the outreach that took [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing, Social Network

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Business pitfalls to avoid on Facebook

Posted by Dave on January 16, 2012 · 0 Comment

Our business Fan page died yesterday. Rather than create a new one or just forget about it, my team decided to find out why. The long list was unexpected. Avoiding Facebook As regional sales manager of a countrywide factory-supplying unit, last month I instantly rejected a junior assistant’s idea of introducing a Facebook page for our company. Until one of our big contractors bid from our competitor. [...]

Category: Facebook Fan Page

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Gateway to social shopping

Posted by Dave on January 11, 2012 · 0 Comment

If you are still undecided as to whether social shopping is a safe bet, this is not an assurance that it is. But then, so is physical purchasing if you don’t check the item before purchasing only to discover too late that the brand was not genuine. The responsibility is yours, no matter what claims and refund options offered in business-to-consumer (B2C) shopping. So if you can spend time deciding [...]

Category: Open Graph

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Taking quality pictures for social media

Posted by Dave on January 10, 2012 · 0 Comment

Let’s just say it’s about time you change not the way you look, but how you look on the internet. The pressure is more so if you are on social network sites that are increasingly focusing on visuals than ever before. Facebook’s new profile page Timeline, requires a high-resolution picture size of 850 × 315 pixels. Anything less or more will be cropped automatically by the site, a result that [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing

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Trends in Social RPGs

Posted by Dave on January 5, 2012 · 0 Comment

Not that a statement in a trailer “Death Lives 2012” will tempt people to play the latest Darksiders 2. There are also friendly- looking community building ones such as Animal Land that have also grabbed enough gamers. Facebook Credits makes it convenient to monetize within the site, and the game does not rely on multiplayers for continuity. So we know it isn’t the theme of a game that is [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing

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Facebook Timeline

Posted by Dave on January 2, 2012 · 0 Comment

Think of it as an e-autobiography-- no more worries about anyone’s life experiences disappearing into oblivion. The red tech carpet has rolled out Facebook’s Timeline, previously a beta version recently given a face-lift as Facebook’s new profile page. It categorizes and organizes posts, apps, status updates, videos, photos and events according to the date they were uploaded or created. Timeline [...]

Category: Facebook Applications

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How advertising increases the life span of social media

Posted by Joshua White on December 29, 2011 · 0 Comment

Online advertising has been a dream come true for corporations that no longer rely on traditional methods and limited choices, then keep their fingers crossed. Their confidence today in generating high sales revenue is mainly advertising over the internet. The popularity for this is because of the interactive visuals and to be able to reach out at a global level, as well the wide range to choose from, [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing

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THE SOCIO-VIRTUAL VILLAGE OF 2012

Posted by Joshua White on December 27, 2011 · 0 Comment

If you think this year was gadget filled, wait till the next --when modifications and innovations will be so fast paced that you’ll need to keep upgrading by the minute! The active pressure amongst competitors is tremendous as each one races ahead of the other, only to be overtaken by yet another virtual inspiration. Here is what some techno experts see coming in 2012: Socio-mobile Mobile [...]

Category: Social Media Marketing, Social Network

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Emerging Christmas Facebook Apps 2011

Posted by Joshua White on December 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

With the holiday season fast approaching and Christmas right around the corner, a multitude of relevant social media and mobile apps have suddenly sprung up on the digital media airwaves. Christmas apps consisting of page tab apps, chat apps, card apps and calendar apps have all exploded in popularity, as is measured by the spike in monthly average users (MAU) in the existing time period. ‘Emerging [...]

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Keeping Up With Facebook Changes

Posted by Joshua White on December 16, 2011 · 0 Comment

While the advent of social networking sites has unarguably opened up a plethora of opportunities in the digital stratosphere, a commonly faced challenge for businesses is keeping up with the rapid pace of developments in this sector. Facebook, in particular, is infamous for sweeping fans unexpectedly off their feet with their notorious and frequent changes. It is therefore important for brands to not [...]

Category: Facebook Policy

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