Archive for Social Media Marketing

500 million users on Facebook

Facebook’s population is now larger than that of the U.S., Mexico and France combined.
The world’s largest social networking site announced Wednesday that it has hit a widely anticipated milestone, signing up its 500 millionth user.
In a blog post, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he “could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago.” In a video message, Zuckerberg thanked Facebook users and told them “you really have created a worldwide movement.”
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Facebook More Popular Than Google: So?

Not sure of HitWises methodology – why aren’t they comparing all Google’s web functions, including Maps and Mail? – but good on Facebook! For a site that didn’t exist in 2003, that is quite some achievement.
What does this mean for the future of search marketing?
Not much.
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Ultimate Twitter Icons Collection For Web designers

Twitter is a micro-blogging social networking site which has grown so fast in recent years. Now twitter is playing an important part in promoting blogs. That’s why one can find almost all popular blogger out there in twitter. In twitter , users can send and read messages in the form of tweets.

Twitter is being ranked 15 in Alexa’s web traffic analysis and is considered to be the fastest growing social networking site of the year. So it’s important for blogger and designers to start using twitter if they haven’t yet started.
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A Life Sciences Social Media Survey

I have been accumulating anecdotal information about companies,organizations and institutions that use social media tools like
Facebook,
Twitter,
YouTube etc.
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Promotion through Social Media

Promoting your website through social media channels is a powerful strategy to achieve online visibility, traffic and sales.
Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn have a combined membership of over 500 million members and growing.
Let IDGLabs  help you create a rewarding social network presence with an advertising campaign that delivers tangible results for your business.
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Search Engine Optimization & Marketing

Search Engine Optimization

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How to Set up a Professional Twitter Profile

Twitter is an awesome Social Media tool for businesses. For those who are Beginners at twitter  you should know that it is a great way to connect with not only other business owners in your niche, but it is also a superb way to converse with your customers and potential customers. 
But, in order to connect with these business owners and consumers they need to be following you on Twitter….. following your conversations. If a member of the Twitter community is not following you they can not hear you. So, in order for Twitter to work effectively you need to get members to follow you.
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Building a Brand through Social Media – IM Spring Break

If you wanted to know how to use Build a Brand Using Social Media then this session was the one to attend. Jeff Quipp, Brian Chappell and Li Evans were an amazing combo…. Together they were the perfect mixture of How-to, tips, suggestions, visuals….. absolutely all the facts needed to give you a good start in Branding.
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Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing has now emerged a silent but very effective tool in the world of Internet Marketing. It helps benefit your business in the following ways:
Increase website traffic (Primary and Secondary traffic)
The traffic that comes directly from social media sites is called primary traffic. Secondary traffic is the traffic that comes from websites that link and send you visitors after they have come across your content through social sites.
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