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Twitter For Business
Twitter continues to make waves as a social networking site that allows you to provide status updates to your followers. While some people are quick to dismiss the business value that Twitter offers, these ‘tweets’ do not have to be reserved for what you ate for breakfast and can actually be an invaluable communication platform that connects your company with its customers…
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How to Use Facebook for Business
One of the most important ways to grow the success of your company for small to medium sized business owners is to let the public know that you exist and that you fulfill the solution to one of their problems. However you most likely don’t have a lot of money to dedicate to marketing and advertising in print publications (especially the Yellow Pages!). That’s why the option to promote your business for free through the social networking giant, Facebook is especially attractive. Nothing beats free advertising!
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The Twitter Effect
The Twitter Effect on Box Office Sales There is a growing belief in Hollywood that Twitter is becoming an increasingly important component for generating box office revenues. This “Twitter effect” either contributes to a movie’s opening weekend numbers success or decreases revenues on Saturday and Sunday based on the 140 character reviews coming out from [...]
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Twitter or TweetDeck?
A study published this week by Rapleaf suggests that Twitter’s web interface is still the most popular platform for tweeting. The study reviewed the most recent 20 tweets from 4 million different Twitter users, and found that 65 percent of them originated from Twitter.com. The second most popular way to tweet is from the Twitter [...]
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Facebook Twitter App
Last month when messages via penguin fb started appearing on Twitter from a Facebook engineer it was suspected that Facebook was up to something. Now it has been confirmed. Facebook has introduced a new platform that allows Facebook Page administrators to update their Page and Twitter simultaneously. In a blog post Facebook explains how this [...]
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Google Tips for Getting Crawled Faster
In order for your site to be easily found in a search engine it needs to be crawled and indexed by a web crawler or spider. There are a few steps that can be taken to make this process as easy as possible for the search engine and in turn for your Webmaster. Recently Google [...]
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Google’s New Search War
People that know search engines know that the latest and greatest trend is real time and social searching. And with it’s newly launched real-time search engine and acquisition of FriendFeed it appears that Facebook is setting itself up to be Google’s newest and potentially most worthy competitor. With the sheer amount of data that Facebook [...]
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Twitter Marketing Vancouver
Not sure what the benefits are of using Twitter for your business? First off, let’s define what Twitter is. Twitter is a free micro blogging and social networking services that allows its members to send and read messages called “tweets”. Why do they call it micro-blogging? Because you are only allowed 140 character tweets at [...]
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Hashtags and Twitter
Hashtags are a useful tool that help you to organize and share your tweets with others. Similar to adding keywords to a Flickr photo, hashtags allow you to group tweets together with others sharing the same tag. The result is easier to follow topics of interest. The use of hashtags evolved during the 2007 San [...]
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The Usefulness of URL Shorteners
While TinyURL has been around since 2002, it’s only since the increase in the popularity of Twitter that URL shorteners like TinyURL and bit.ly have seen their use skyrocket. Twitter, which only allows for 140 characters in any message, has made the service of taking a longer URL and transforming it into a manageable link [...]
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