The New Wave of Social Media Marketing
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The battle lines betwwen Google and Facebook!
Aug 6th
There’s a requisite chaos to the “hacker culture” that has been central to the rise of both Google and Facebook: cobble something together, fueled by Red Bull and pizza, until it works; keep changing it and improving it, lest a competitor jump in and create something better; and if for some reason it doesn’t work, just do away with it altogether. From both the inside and the outside, it can look quite messy. Take, for example, the fact that Google has been known to tweak its search algorithm hundreds of times per year, or that the Facebook home page goes More >
What to do with youtube?
May 3rd
Top 10 YouTube Tips for Small Businesses
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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 >
Everyone wants to be
Apr 7th
To spread the word about a new skin-care salon in West Seattle, owner Karen Jahn got her social-media act together and hired a publicist to reach out to several hundred customers on Facebook and Twitter.
Through teaser messages, fans of Jahn’s Wax Bar in Ballard were told about the cross-town opening and given a chance to win weekly prizes.
“I don’t know if we got many new clients out of it,” said Jahn, who spent more than $800 on the monthlong promotion. “But we got more people to follow us, and now more people are aware of the Wax Bar.”
Not surprisingly, retailers More >
Mar 12th
We all are in need of tips to try and begin utilizing Social Media to its fullest potential and although it is ever growing and changing, certain things remain the same.
Here are your five C’s to Social Media, that can be applied to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and any other Social Networking site that you use for personal or professional gain.
- Connect- Your first pursuit with any Social Networking site is to find people to connect with. Friend and Fan those you are already aware of that use Social Media and then branch out. Don’t just randomly add people or friend those More >
