Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

UPDATED: Google Social Search and How It Impacts You #business #socialmedia #Google

(Sound problem on video has been fixed.)

It’s a bit more clear how Google Social Search Impacts Your Business with visuals, as the video above “How Google Social Search Gives Your Social Media Efforts More Impact” will show.

Here’s a quick summary of what you’re looking at, followed by a few points I didn’t make in that video.

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If Twitter Ads are Evil, What’s Your Company Supposed to Do?

handshake-globeHave you ever fast-forwarded through a commercial?

Have you ever used an ad-blocker?

Have you ever changed the radio station because there was a commercial on?

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7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

Smart Social Networking Reaches the Entire MarketFirst, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage.

When you visualize something exploding, you think about a burst of energy, often associated with fire for some reason – probably the fault of our favorite action pictures.

I love to see things blow up as long as I know no one really got hurt – not just in movies but in website promotion. And an intelligent social media strategy won’t just get you several thousand links from various social sites. It can bring you premium web visibility, more targeted visitors, and bring you closer to your existing audience.

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27,000 Visitors a Week? Ripoff or Real?


Here’s a link to the su.pr traffic video if you are viewing this post via a syndication channel and can’t see the video above.

The video above is some of  StumbleUpon traffic, specifically the traffic I drove using su.pr. In the example above, the numbers average to about 5000 Stumbles a week, and I’m not a Power Stumbler by any stretch.

That’s not even traffic I got for myself, it’s for other people.

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[video] UberVu vs Topsy

Quick video I did on UberVu vs Topsy.

I normally use Tweetmeme and BackType Connect to follow social media conversations about my site. But these were worth a mention, as I love anything that will link back to my blog when someone’s tweeted about me.

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[article & video] Is Facebook Testing Removal of the 5000 Friend Limit?

About a week ago, I got to the Facebook limit of “friends” one can have on Facebook. I’m really particular about how I friend on Facebook, so it took me a lot longer than most people who have mailing lists and popular web sites.

Meaning that unlike other people who got to the limit from (more…)

[article plus video] How Will Oprah’s Audience Affect Twitter?

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I hardly ever watch TV live, and today was no exception. But Mashable has a portion of today’s Twitter appearance featuring @Oprah and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), who reached 1 million Twitter followers, beating @CNN, so I ended up seeing the Twitter-relevant part of the show in a fairly timely fashion after all.
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[video] How to (Un)Market on Facebook if Your Audience Knows and Likes You

I’m back again, continuing the Facebook Business Basics series.  

If you went to my Facebook page, you saw two videos about how you can find people on Facebook who may be interested in you and let them come back to your site. This video talks about  what to do once you have someone viewing your profile. (more…)