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social media

Dear Facebook,

August 27, 2010
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It’s been an interesting few years. Sometimes you and I are friends. Often times I’d rather spend my time with twitter. You’ve pulled some jerk moves then come back with some great new thing or change that makes you interesting again for a little while. This time you’ve gone too far. This pissing contest you’ve [...]

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Facebook Fan Page Disaster

June 17, 2010
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Fan pages are being defaced Malicious Facebook users are defacing fan pages in a way that is hard for the admins to detect. Visitors can go to a fan page, like the page, add vulgar comments and links to the page, then unlike the fan page. If the visitor blocks the admin’s personal account, this [...]

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Handle Negative Online Reviews Positively

May 28, 2010
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It’s happened to the best of businesses. Somewhere along the way, a customer is going to complain. And in the new business world of social media and online shopping, opportunities abound for customers to express their opinions, good or bad, more than ever before. Ignore social media, and you’ll ignore a valuable customer base: more [...]

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Set up a Facebook Fan Page

January 22, 2010
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With 350 million users, Facebook is the biggest social media network in history. Your customers are out there, take advantage of the chance to connect with them. The best way to establish your brand on Facebook is with a fan page. If you have had a personal account on Facebook, you will see pretty quickly [...]

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Using Twitter for Business

January 21, 2010
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Twitter is easy! Easy to setup, easy to understand, easy to tweet. Tweets also show up in the Google search results before web pages. There is no commitment, no weekly blog posts, no comments to approve, no pre-existing social group to help you get started. Just set up an account and start tweeting. You can [...]

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Social Media for Business

January 20, 2010
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There are countless social media networks, so we will just focus on the big two: Facebook and Twitter are the giants of social media. Social media networks are made to connect people that share the same interests. The use is so widespread, it only makes good sense to use it as a way to promote [...]

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Set up your Facebook Fan Page Now

January 19, 2010
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Social networking is gaining momentum in business promotional strategies. Social networking platform may offer soft targets as it provides real time benefits for the business and business head. According to a survey conducted by William Baker, a marketing professor at San Diego State University, companies that use external social networks were rated 24% higher in [...]

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Why Use Twitter for Business?

January 18, 2010
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Twitter is a free micro – blogging site that has made instant messaging among large number of people possible. Twitter is a widely accepted social networking platform with around 5 million users. It has been estimated that about five to ten thousand new people register with Twitter each month. Alexa’s web traffic analysis report says [...]

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