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Facebook Promoted Posts: Taking Away Your Fans?
Last week, a small ripple went through the Dangerous Minds blog, crying out “I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK!” Letting out a screed of massive proportions, the piece has made its rounds on the very social network it lambasts, even having some of the 59,502 fans replace their profile pictures with …
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Hurricane Sandy Viral Photos – For Better or For Worse, What You Share Affects Your Cred
Just like all of you, I spend a sizeable portion of my day with Facebook open in one of the many tabs of my Google Chrome browser. I do it for work; other typical explanations include social media addiction, boredom, or a bad case of the Mondays. Either way, I’m …
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5 for Friday – Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
Brands That Understand Marketing on Instagram – Mashable Much like Pinterest, businesses are slowly but surely beginning to utilize Instagram as a marketing tool. By encouraging your customers or your fan base to be actively — and creatively — involved with your brand, you can engage them in a unique and …
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Naked Pizza: A Local Success Story, Fueled By Social Media
Folks, here is a lesson in homegrown social media success. While it has long been known as an obsession of my generation, it can be difficult for just-starting-out businesses to learn how to grapple with this fact and to lasso it into a useful tool for getting non-virtual dollars into …
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The New Linkedin Company Pages are Sexy
Linkedin recently updated their drab design on company pages to a more vivid version, allowing companies to provide additional details on their company beyond a basic summary blurb on capabilities and industry relevance. In the past, a Linkedin company page was regarded as a placemarker. It was an area in …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
1. Google Launches Disavow Links Tool – Search Engine Land The long-awaited Google Disavow tool was announced this week at Pubcon by Matt Cutts. The tool, which is available in Webmaster Tools, allows users to submit a list of links and essentially tells Google that you don’t want those links …
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Twitter and Your Business: Harnessing The Goliath
Since its initial launch in 2006, social media goliath Twitter has expanded into a vital part of our daily lives, 140 characters at a time. The microblogging platform provides a flexible platform for 14-year-old Jessica to share her flirtatious encounter with the boy from 3rd period Science while simultaneously hosting …
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The Notorious IPO – Like The Future For Social Networking?
To paraphrase whomever The Notorious B.I.G. was paraphrasing in 1997, it would appear that the new financial expectations levied upon social media platforms are about to start making life much more complicated for users, advertisers and entrepreneurial site designers alike. You’re now looking at me almost as if there’s no …
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5 For Friday — Links, Stories & Posts For Your Weekend
• Ranking the 100 Most InDemand Employers Using LinkedIn Data [INFOGRAPHIC] – LinkedIn In pulling professional data from their 175 million users, LinkedIn creates an infographic to display which companies are most attractive to potential job candidates. Software and technology dominating the top 5 positions, with Google taking the lead …
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SEO is Dead! Long Live SEO!
Starting in February of 2011, Google began updating its Page Rank algorithms to weed out what they deemed “thin content” and black hat SEO. Google’s algorithmic updates were specifically targeting low-quality content farms and websites engaged in dubious practices to increase their Page Rank, such as keyword stuffing or link …
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