2 Critical Facebook Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making

Posted by on Dec 30, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

2 Critical Facebook Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making

Internet marketing, social media to be specific has grown in popularity as a great way for businesses market to and engage customers with out spending a lot of money.  The question is how do business owners know how much revenue their Internet marketing strategies have produced? I’m going to focus on Facebook but the ideas can be used for any social media site.  Facebook marketers need to make sure that the site is worth the effort that they are putting into it as well analyze the results to make sure that they continually improve. The only way to improve results on anything (including...

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Who is Chuck Testa and what does he know about social media?

Posted by on Sep 16, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

Who is Chuck Testa and what does he know about social media?

This is Chuck Testa. He stuffs Animals. Bet you are wondering why I am writing about a taxidermist right? Well this guy unknowingly made a hilarious local ad commercial. ow local commercials are known for being low budget and cheesy, but this almost looks on purpose! If you haven’t seen it check out the video below. So for what appeared to be no budget at all Chuck is getting international exposure. The concept of the video is original. Chuck’s video has even inspired a string of people to create Photo Shop images of animals and do spoofs on the commercials. Chuck one ups his...

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Increase Twitter Link Shares 700% With This Easy Trick

Posted by on Sep 15, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

So the question of how to increase link mentions for your website is a big deal to many smal business as it should be.  Small business owners are constantly looking for ways to leverage the growing influence of social networks to increase visits to their website and ultimately sales. Brightedge recently released a report based on research comprising of over 4 million randomly sampled  tweets. What they  found was that companies that had tweet button installed had almost 7X more link mentions on average than sites that didn’t. The good thing for wordpress users is that installing...

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Use QR Codes like Victoria’s Secret: Lust and Mystique to Trigger Action

Posted by on Sep 2, 2011 in Social Media | 1 comment

Use QR Codes like Victoria’s Secret: Lust and Mystique to Trigger Action

The use of QR codes has started to really gain traction in the world of social media for small business. Any time that something begins to take off you will have people start to debate its usefulness and impact. Regardless of what side of the ball you are on everyone can agree that in any campaign getting people to participate is the first step. Victoria’s secret has always used lust and mystique to entice people to buy their products, but they are now using the same action to get passerby’s to engage with their marketing materials. QR codes don’t have to be boring and...

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16 Easy Ways to Incorporate Social Media Into Your Website

Posted by on Sep 1, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

16 Easy Ways to Incorporate Social Media Into Your Website

So you know how important social media is to creating relationships but have no idea how to incorporate it into your web site. Here are 16 ideas that will help you get started. All of these can be done easily with word press without knowing how to code. (widgets, plugins, pages or post) So get started today during the great work of building your business. 1. Add link to social media platforms via widgets, icons etc. 2. Create a “get social” page which provides easy access to your social media profiles and some of your top level employees and co-owners . 3. Add Facebook “like” widgets...

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8 Ways to Update Facebook That Your Fans Will Love

Posted by on Aug 22, 2011 in Social Media | 0 comments

8 Ways to Update Facebook That Your Fans Will Love

Facebook can be used in a very powerful way to build a community around your brand. It gives you the perfect opportunity to build loyalty,love and awareness amongst a large community. Social media is for people to socialize though which is where alot of business go wrong. People log on to interact with friends and brands, not just have advertisements spewed their way. So here are 8 simple status updates you can use to engage your fans. Feature a Fan of the month/Week/Day Regardless of what people say they love themselves more than anyone else on earth. The sweetest sound to humanity is the...

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