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Social Media Education and News
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Places You Don’t Want to Check-In on Foursquare
1. The Strip Club Strip clubs and cabarets may be suitable for groups of men celebrating a birthday or a bachelor party; however, it’s never ever the proudest moment – you’d best stay incognito.
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Google Me: The Newest Social Networking Platform
It seems like every other blog post I write has something to do with Google’s latest attempt to takeover the information superhighway. I guess it’s a testament to their ability to always evolve and never stagnate. The latest news from the Internet gossip train is here and it’s a pretty …
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Facebook Local Search: Facebook Declares War on Google’s Empire
Is Facebook the next evolution of Local Search? We all knew it was a matter of time before Facebook started expanding into web search and they’ve finally done it by unveiling their own Facebook local search option: Open Graph search engine. What is Open Graph, you might ask, here’s what Facebook …
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Foursquare Mayor Competition: Leveling the Playing Field
Last night I was ousted as Foursquare mayor of my new favorite watering hole by the owner. Is this fair? I think not. The red flag that popped in my head when I got the news via e-mail was not that my pride was hurt by losing my title, but …
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Using Facebook Markup Language for Social Media Marketing
When I was in elementary school I hated my school uniform. The yellow shirt, brown tweed jacket, blue slacks, and that awful little tie. I remember questioning the school taste level and being matter-of-factly told the uniforms made us focus on school rather than each other. I hate those uniforms …
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Foursquare Advertiser Survey
Search Influence is proud to be taking part in the first ever Foursquare Advertiser Survey with 3 other companies focused on local search and social media. Over the next 2 weeks, leading up to SMX Advanced, we will be polling businesses using Foursquares promotions tools to get the word out …
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Twitter SPAM can get you BANNED!
No one likes SPAM! I’m not talking about the canned meat product. I happen to like the stuff myself. It reminds me of camping when I was a kid. What I am talking about is that which clogs our inboxes, dilutes and degrades the integrity and usefulness of … well, …
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Top 10 For the Weekend
We’re constantly coming across interesting articles, photos, and links around here. Some are relevant to our line of work, some not so much, some are funny, some are informative. Today we’d like to share a few of the most practical and useful ones with you. Check out this blatant use …
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Local Business Marketing on Foursquare
While many companies are still figuring out Facebook and Twitter as a means of local business marketing, a whole new social media is beginning to break into the mainstream. While the underlying idea is to keep you connected, just as other social media networks, foursquare takes it to the next …
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The Secret of Small Business Social Media – You Must be Present to Win
One of the questions we hear from pretty much every client is “Should we be on Facebook?” “Do I need to Twitter? Tweet? Twit?” or, if they are already on it, they ask how they can make better use of Twitter or Facebook for business purposes. For a small business …
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