Google launched its new social media experiment: Google Buzz, a new service that is tied to your browser, Gmail allows users to share links, photos, videos and status updates that are shown up along-side your e-mails. Have you tried it yet? Check it out!
The company aims to battle with other powerful real-time platforms such as [...]
Facebook has gone through a few designs, but just a few since it’s launch. It begins a new year breaking a new record: 400 million active users worldwide. WOW! That truly is a Happy Anniversary! Did you know that more than 35 million users update their status each day? You can also check out some interesting statistics about [...]
Which web 2.0 site will succeed in 2010? Well… just take a look at the key elements that you have to keep in mind if you want to make it! In this article, we are going to see what some creative sites are doing to learn some stuff from them.
Note that most of these [...]
The way we get the news is changing. Nowadays, social media has given you control over the news you consume to stay up-to-date. And here, your social media friends are becoming the most trusted sources of information.
In this sense, when you want to get the news… the first thing you do now is to check [...]
Nowadays, starting a new business is much easier than ever. The majority of the information the world is digital—we have e-mail, digital photos from camera phones, PowerPoint presentations, digital phone messages and social media with tweets, blogs, social networks, etc. So, why not start here?
Why? Thanks to social media is much easier to promote your [...]
People and small business owners are always rating something or reviewing it! Actually, it was found that the majority of small business owners (90%) and consumers (80%) are active users in some kind of review and ratings Web sites, according to the 2009 Online Ratings Survey commissioned by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell and conducted by Lightspeed Research.
Interestingly, [...]
Using Twitter for positive Word of Mouth can be effective. But, sometimes businessmen and marketers are afraid of what customers could say about their companies on Twitter! Monitoring Twitter for mentions and comments on your brand could be challenging, but exciting. What are customers saying now? Are they more likely to give or seek information? [...]
Word of mouth is one of the most influential purchase drivers, especially when we are talking about social shopping. You may probably ask friends or family what they think of a product or check ratings or reviews made by strangers to get the right product for you.
But, what are the next steps for social shopping?
Interestingly, [...]
Employees regularly check their personal emails and visit different social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or even Twitter during working hours. Still, companies are starting to limit these trends. So, before sending out that next Tweet about your latest blogposting, or checking what your friends are doing, don’t forget to double-check your company’s social networking [...]
The most quick-witted online retailers have adapted to the Social media and network age. That’s no news! We have seen how big and small companies are present in the Social Network scene. In this sense, most of the top companies have a profile on top social networking sites, according to Internet Retailer:
• 79% of top [...]
