Social Media Marketing

How do you define a tweet as being popular? There are many ways to look at it. Quality and quantity of retweets do matter. Currently, there are not too many services that focus on the quality of retweets (retweets that are made by highly influential users as opposed to those made by low influence users). [...]

A few months ago, I had a chance to review Blellow, which was an innovative online service designed to help people get more out of their interactions with others without having to deal with the noise that we all have to deal with on Twitter. Sprouter is another innovative service that uses the same concept [...]

I am not a big fan of shortcuts when it comes to building business online. Whether it’s blogging, doing research, or getting involved on social networking sites, you want to make sure that you don’t cut corners to give yourself the best chance to succeed. But there is a difference between taking a shortcut and [...]

Have you ever been in a situation wanting to register your name or brand on a social networking site, only to find out it’s already taken? If you have a general name, there is a good chance that your name is already taken. But there are people out there that will grab your brand name [...]

Social bookmarking sites are yet another source of links for bloggers and search engine optimizers. Web services such as Delicious and Mixx can bring you lots of targeted SEO traffic. As long as your listings become popular on delicious, there is no reason you can drive a ton of traffic to your website. Considering that [...]

These days, people are so hooked on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites that they don’t get proper time to be on all of them without cutting out some of their daily activities. People are so addicted to the social media that companies are starting to ban Facebook and Twitter just to get people [...]

The Internet has truly changed the world of publishing. More people spend their time reading books and newspapers online than ever before thanks to the power of Web 2.0. In fact, there are a lot of services that make it easy for writers to connect with their readers and share their work with them. Whether [...]

If you are not familiar with ideablob, it’s a Web 2.0 community for small businesses, start-ups, and entrepreneurs from all walks of life. It’s a great place to network with other entrepreneurs and share and discuss your business ideas. It doesn’t hurt that you can actually win $10,000 if your idea is deemed to be [...]

So what is it about all these “.ly” services? Some of the most innovative social media solutions on the web use that domain extension. Card.ly is no exception. It’s a cool service that lets you share your online profiles with your friends, colleagues, and readers easily. All you have to do is sign up for [...]

Building your brand on social media sites may sound easy but it takes hard work. There are many communities that you can be involved in, and it takes a lot of hard-work to keep your profiles up to date. But before you can do anything, you need to register your brand on social media sites. [...]