Yes, well here we go again, another one of those, I’ve got  a list of over “9,000? Twitter followers so I’m a social media expert marketing forms has hit my desk today. Come along it says, “to my affiliate marketing driven roadshow and in 4 hours I’ll make you the expert, but there’s more, if [...]

Hewlett Packard has announced a major extension of their social media strategy, with a campaign aimed at getting in touch with creative youth. ‘Listen 2U’ is a dedicated website where young people can develop their talent, posting and directing their own movies for the chance to win HP products. With news posts ‘broadcast’ from university [...]

Any good and respectable social media business online has one primary aim: to create an effective environment for its users, the entrepreneurs. It is very important that they must be able to start new projects or businesses, and upgrade an old one to the stage of a fully working prosperous social media business. The newly [...]

1. Your Own BlogRSS feeds are the proverbial backbone of the Social Web. You can only benefit from the exposure in the many RSS feed directories on the Web if you have your own RSS feed to publish on it. The easiest way to have your own RSS feed is to start a blog.But merely [...]

If you haven’t caught the flick, hit up YouTube and check it out: Once you check out the flick, imagine this.  Social media at 1Gb per second.  Wait, at that point isn’t it just called video phone? Will we even need what is becoming ‘traditional’ social media once our bandwidth is so fast that we [...]

Imagine yourself having a direct access to your target audience or consumers. What would you say to convince them to patronize your products and services? Packaging your content is one thing. Having a direct access to end-user is another thing. In real world or, shall I say, in conventional platform, you would have to invest [...]

Here’s another question I’m asked often, and is usually a major ingredient as to why a business is afraid of the Social Web – What happens if someone opens talks negatively about my brand/business?It’s interesting that the Web has made everyone’s voice heard. The power of the Social Web can make and break anyone’s online [...]

Have you been using social media to market your business? A lot of effort goes into building credibility and authority within that arena. Once you are beginning to see results, however, the question arises of whether there is something else you can do to maximize your efforts and increase your exposure. Well, hang tight, because [...]

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for people worldwide. MySpace has been one of the most wildly successful sites in recent years, amassing over 120 million profiles while transforming social networking online. It has created a central community [...]

Twitter is an amazing business but most of us are not even aware of its huge potential. With Twitter you build and even expand your network. This is one platform which will help you to build relationships with your potential clients. You will meet people from various sectors with similar business interests. Moreover when you [...]

Social media optimization (SMO) is a subset of search engine optimization (SEO). SMO optimizes your business site by advertising through social medial sites, blog sites, online communities, podcasts, and message boards. SMO is accomplished through really simple syndication (RSS) feeds, video and photo sharing, social bookmarking, blogging, and social news buttons. The concept is to [...]

So you have been hearing all the buzz about getting free exposure for your product or service by using the great social media platforms like Youtube & Facebook, right? Whether you have your Twitter, Youtube, or Facebook channel created yet, you probably have no idea how to piece them all together like a jigsaw puzzle [...]