How to Conduct Multiple Social Media Searches with One Lookup
The social media search engine normally lets a person carry out searches of multiple of dozens of social networking sites. Social media can be described to be the social networking system where people get to interact on a social forum. It is meant to keep the friends updated about their Read more…
Get Social Data Through Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free service from Google that provides complete statistics about all website visitors. It is useful in monitoring the impact of new initiatives undertaken for website promotion in terms of returns on investments. Google Analytics has now added social data to its reports and provides all the Read more…
20 Easy Ways to Promote Your Blog Across the Social Web
One of the key points I explain in my book, 30-Minute Social Media Marketing, is that for a business to succeed in building a brand and growing, it needs to surround consumers with branded online experiences, so those consumers can self-select how they want to engage with the brand. The Read more…
5 Ways to Drive a Buzz about Your Events Using Social Media
Whether you’re a blogger, business owner, or individual with an event to promote, you can spread the word and drive an online buzz about it using the free tools of the social Web. Some tools integrate directly into popular social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn while others not only Read more…
Why WickedFire is a Great Forum to Learn Online Business and Marketing
Look, if you’re interested in joining a forum where everyone is polite but nobody is making serious money, try WarriorForum or DigitalPoint. Those two, for example, have very strict etiquette rules but only one “minor” problem. Simply put, lots of WarriorForum and DigitalPoint members talk the talk but few of Read more…
Would You Pay to Read Someone’s Tweets?
Would you pay to read someone’s tweets? For some time now, enterprising individuals have been trying to find the holy grail of Twitter monetization. Some have been blatantly spamming advertisements through @replies. Some have indirectly monetized their Twitter accounts by using it as a viral marketing tool. Still, others have Read more…
How to Find People to Follow on Twitter
We’ve all heard of how awesome Twitter is for social media marketing, but you may not know how to get started. One of the most important and basic things for Twitter marketing is finding people to follow. Here are a couple ways to do that, so you can start networking Read more…
Getting Links to your Blog
Is your blog not experiencing the volume of traffic that you would like to see? One of the major flaws that many blog owners do not consider is the importance of links and linking. Links are to a blog, what highways are to the automotive world. Without highways, information, people, Read more…
How much traffic is Bing sending to your blog?
I thought it would be interesting, a couple of weeks in, to see how much traffic Microsoft’s new Bing search engine was sending to a range of blogs I have stats access to. While it’s very early days and the sample size I have access to is fairly limited compared Read more…
Do You Tweet to Read or Do You Tweet to Write?
I’ve observed several celebrity Twitter users to have a friend/follower ratio that is heavily skewed toward the follower side. This means they have a huge following, but follow only a very few people. While most do reply to tweets related to them or directly sent to them as @replies, a Read more…
