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Facebook Page Timeline Tutorial

Facebook Page Timeline Tutorial

Mar 12, 2012

Facebook is making every fan page switch to the timeline format on March 29. Until now the most obvious marketing techniques for a fan page have been to gate the likes page so you promise exclusive content for someone to like your brand, and the infamous iPad contests. They were both accessible, easy to understand and offered a high rate of...

Facebook Timeline: Another Nail in the Coffin

Facebook Timeline: Another Nail in the Coffin

Mar 12, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg himself previously acknowledged that Facebook has been unethical at times, and privacy concerns have been one of the primary objections to Facebook since it began its rise to power. Users often leave Facebook on the grounds of privacy violations, but most of those users eventually return to the social giant. The privacy concerns are centered...

Long Term Goals for Social Networking Part 2

Long Term Goals for Social Networking Part 2

Mar 9, 2012

Continued from “Long Term Goals for Social Networking” So you’ve realized now that you may be wasting time in social media. You’re making some insignificant revenue, but you’re spending so much time that it amounts to only a few pennies an hour.  You spent a lot of time building your following on Google Plus, and even though you have 50,000...

Long Term Goals for Social Networking

Long Term Goals for Social Networking

Mar 8, 2012

This is the first installment in a 2 part series Social Networking is what’s hot on the Internet right now. In the strictest sense there are four social networking sites in the top 10 for hits according to Alexa. Facebook users spend 23 minutes per visit on the site, and visit approximately 40 times each month on average. The popularity has represented a...

Dot Moms Lead Social Media in the 2012 Election

Dot Moms Lead Social Media in the 2012 Election

Mar 5, 2012

As expansive as the use of social media is in 2012, especially for middle income Americans, it would be naïve to think that Facebook and other social media platforms will not play a large role in the Presidential election this year.   Barack Obama has been called the first digital President, and whoever his opponent is in November will not overlook the...

5 Reasons Twitter Can’t Fail

5 Reasons Twitter Can’t Fail

Feb 29, 2012

In 2005 no one saw the demise of MySpace coming. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had just spent $580 million buying the property, which at the time looked like the hottest thing since Microsoft. A year after News Corp took over MySpace became the most visited website on the Internet, and that was around the time that they jumped the shark. The technology...

Advertise your site for Free- The SMS Social 100!

Advertise your site for Free- The SMS Social 100!

Feb 23, 2012

If you have a social media blog, or just run a site and use social media to promote it, you’re the prefect fit for the Social Media Sun Social 100. It’s a listing of hundreds of sites that are social media heavy, and the best part is that by getting votes you can move up the ranks, get a medal for your site, and get thousands of page views!

New Here? Get to Knows Us!

New Here? Get to Knows Us!

Feb 23, 2012

If this is your first time here, or you’ve just started integrating a social media presence into your business, let us explain a little more about the site and show you what else we have to offer.