Posts Tagged ‘social media marketing’
If you’re trying to get somewhere on the internet when it comes to marketing your business, there is no way to ignore social media any longer and whether it will play a factor in your online marketing. With over 500 million users on Facebook (larger than most countries) and over 50% of them accessing their home page daily it’s hard not to pay attention to this medium.
B2B Marketing on the internet should extend your power to make connections
Lots of companies try out Twitter but most of them don’t take full advantage of its social media marketing possibilities. The problems start when they don’t pay attention to the basics in everything from setup to posting. If you aren’t thorough from the start you’ll lose out on followers and general popularity. Start with the seven basics below and proceed from there:
Back in Part One of Our Twitter Strategy Piece we talked about what criteria we used to add people. This time around let’s talk about content. What goes on http://twitter.com/GILL_Media? (Did you know we also have a feed for our internet consultant business opportunity too? It’s http://twitter.com/gill_partner.) We usually post a couple of updates a day. Here’s what they tend to be:
Strategic internet marketing company presents video, social media and other new and expanded services with its site relaunch.
Recently, Google webspam and SEO guru Matt Cutts reiterated Google’s position on paid blog entries. Google doesn’t like them. What he was light on explaining was how exactly Google can tell an entry’s been paid for, though his example – Kmart’s recent paid reviews promotion, where the company gave bloggers $500.00 gift cards – was easy enough to find, since some of the bloggers involved stated the nature of the relationship up front. So: good or bad? Cutts’ (and Google’s) position is that paid endorsements fill the Web with unreliable, spammy junk content, and he’s probably right. Unfortunately, the situation is really more complicated than that, because the economics of web marketing are about attention, then cash. Read the rest of this entry »
Like a lot of people, I was a Facebook addict. Like a lot of strategic internet marketing guys, I thought that as is, it could do all kinds of amazing, fancy things. Now that I’ve been on Facebook for a while though I’ve gotten a bit more jaded – when I go to Facebook at all, that is. Why is the romance over, Facebook? What could you do to bring me back? Here are five reasons why Facebook isn’t my go-to time waster any more and I’m more irritated than intrigued with businesses who want to connect through it. I also have five solutions to share: one for each problem. Some can be implemented right away, while others would require some fairly serious monkeying with Facebook.
