Premier New York Wedding Photographers, Gruber Photographers successfully used social media for small business, having achieved an impressive 3000% increase of extremely relevant followers, gathered largely within a matter of just 7 weeks.
Mark Zuckerberg’s look may not change much (does he own anything other than greenish-grey T-shirts?), but Facebook is about to get a makeover. On September 23rd Zuckerberg took to the stage at the f8 conference and announced major modifications to Facebook’s interface and functionality. ReadWriteWeb has a succinct breakdown of the new developments, and what they mean for users and brands. Will these changes have an affect on your social media marketing?
Ron Jones from ClickZ shares 5 ways to ensure that social media efforts are achieving measurable results. Because consumers are more likely to purchase goods or services from a brand they’ve engaged with, measuring the penetration of a brand’s social media influence can help show social media ROI — something every marketer struggles to do. Jones’ approach, while not groundbreaking, breaks down these measurement tools succinctly. He highlights several ways to measure brand awareness in the social sphere, share of voice and sentiment, influence (or ability to inspire action), brand engagement, and popularity. Marketers should identify the specific goals of their brand’s social media strategy, and choose the individual metrics that best fit those goals. Continue reading
Magazine publishers are looking to mobile action codes to bridge the gap between offline content and online engagement. Like many major successful social media marketing campaigns, Glamour’s latest initiative paired exclusive access to a star with their own significant social following (Rihanna: 44 million Facebook fans) with attractive financial incentives from advertisers. Continue reading
Excellent post from Brian Solis on the challenges facing businesses seeking to succeed in the social space, and 14 ways to overcome them. Continue reading
This post is long overdue, but I did want to provide a brief overview of what my Web 2.0 session was about. As we all know, Facebook, is becoming an increasingly important marketing channel. The session name is obviously how I submitted it earlier this year, and Im well aware that its a “like” page now, 
I have some takeaways from other sessions that I will share in another post. Continue reading
According to a piece on Mercury news in March, Facebook recently surpassed than Google in the amount of traffic– on a weekly basis in the U.S. That immediately makes me think of how businesses can use this to their advantage? Can a small business benefit from it? Is it possible to tap into the this huge stream of traffic coming off of Facebook?
If you have a business of your own, it would make sense for you to optimize your facebook page – just like you optimize optimize your websites, blogs and landing pages. But how do you do it? Is it even possible?
Here are a few things to consider:
By now, most advertisers are familiar with the basics of paid search advertising: you choose a list of keywords that you want to trigger your ad, select the maximum you’re willing to spend per click, and then instruct the search engines to match you up with people searching for your terms. Since searchers are looking for a specific service or answer at the time of the search, paid search is great for transactional advertising such as generating sales or leads. If you are offering exactly what the searcher is looking for, he or she is likely to convert.
More People Now Visit Facebook Than Google
Search engine advertising has been a dominant force in the world of online advertising for years now. However, with Facebook taking up an ever-greater share of people’s time online, it is inevitable that Facebook will also account for an increasing share of online advertising. That said, Facebook advertising isn’t useful for every business. Here is some information to help you decide whether your company should give it a try.
According to multiple reports on the web yesterday, Facebook is making yet another change to its interface. They officially have no comment to the published reports, but the plan is to scrap the “Become a Fan” link and replace it with “I like” when you are joining a fan page of a brand. Facebook is known for constantly tweaking its interface in an effort to keep current with the new media landscape
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400 million profiles, millions of status updates, billions of photos being uploaded and viewed – Facebook is huge, monolithic and truly, wide-reaching. If you are on Facebook, that’s the size of the audience which can potentially look at your profile. However, unless you are a Britney Spears, Oprah or some other celebrity like that, no one except your friends (and to an extent, their friends) would take a gander at your profile. Continue reading
