Posts tagged businesses
Google and the future
Aug 18th
To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. The stock is down. Where once everything seemed to go the company’s way, along came Apple’s iPhone, launching a new wave of Web growth on a platform that largely bypassed the browser and Google’s search box. The “app” revolution was going to spell an end to Google’s dominance of Web advertising.
But that’s all so six-months-ago. When a group of Journal editors sat down with Eric Schmidt on a recent Friday, Google’s CEO sounded nothing like a man whose company was facing a midlife crisis, let alone intimations of mortality.
For one More >
6 Social Media Mistakes Your Company Should Avoid
Jul 12th
Making mistakes isn’t necessarily a bad thing. First off, you always learn more from a ‘not-so-great’ moment. In fact, chances are that if you’ve ever made a mistake you’re highly unlikely to repeat it. Second, you don’t have to make your own mistake to learn from what you should or shouldn’t do. You can learn from other peoples’ mistakes. Looking at mishaps that others have made can teach you what pitfall to avoid and how to circumvent similar situations.
Social media has put a spotlight on mistakes and them available for the entire world to see. When those trip-ups come from More >
What to do with youtube?
May 3rd
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Video can be a very powerful tool for businesses of any size, but YouTube’s free-to-use model, ease of use and mass market audience means it’s a great channel for small businesses. However, like any tool, in order to get the most of it, it needs to be used well.
We’ve pulled together ten top tips to help you get the most out of YouTube. Rather than video production hints or content More >
Vegas lessons
May 3rd
Hello everybody!!! I hope everyone is doing as amazing as we are doing at Splash. Last week I took a trip to Vegas for the 2010 roller skating conferences. Although I was there for a different purpose I could not help but to be aware of all the social media that was happening around me. Let me start off by saying that every single casino in Vegas has there facebook and or twitter plastered all over there front billboards. Even as you walk in they are telling you where you can find them, how you can become a fan of More >
A Secret to Social Media
Mar 28th
Helping businesses establish a practical Social Media Marketing strategy to generate awareness and reach for their business is what Splash Networking is all about. And since most of our clients weren’t born with a blackberry in their hands, there are a few key points that we would like to resolve about Social Media Networking right from the start.
Let’s first take a look at what we consider “Traditional Media.” We have to ask ourselves, “How does the information travel with traditional media as opposed to social media?” Back in the day people were obtaining information from newspapers and magazines. The direction More >

