For example: - Mobile searches increased by a massive 400-percent in 2011. 70-percent of people on social networks are also online shoppers. 68-percent of businesses plan to integrate social media marketing with their e-mail marketing. MORE
The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. MORE
How to Track Your Social Media Efforts written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If your small business is taking advantage of social media to engage with customers in hopes of growing your business, how do you know if your efforts are paying off? MORE
LinkedIn is a powerful social networking tool that provides an amazing platform to connect professionals across the globe. Search Results. When you’re starting to get your name out there, you’ve got to reach out in several directions at once. MORE
You can google ambiguous search terms, try to dig through LinkedIn, or you can search through business directories with limited success. Gard Jenssen explains, "For our search we’re partly based on our company data and partly on crawling and indexing all the world’s companies’ websites. MORE
Foursquare Turns Into Powerful Local Search Engine This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. The way Explore works is that it allows you to search for businesses that your friends and the other hundreds of millions of Foursquare users have found and commented on. MORE
We all use web search engines a lot.about 3 Billion times a day around the world. We hear pundits say that search sucks , or hasn't advanced much beyond 10 blue links. Eleven years ago I was director of engineering at AltaVista, the best search engine in the world at the time. MORE
Google wants its users to be able to search and find high quality sites that offer fresh and original content. The idea is that the more popular your content is, the more likely it is to be shared and linked to which will contribute to your search engine optimisation success. MORE
Optimizing Your Tweets for Search written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Twitter’s among the most powerful social networks in the world for brand awareness – which is why it’s of the utmost importance that you know how to tap into it. In the right hands, Twitter may well be among the most powerful social networks in the world. I suspect this is tied to the nature of the social network. MORE
Feeling overburdened by trying to handle multiple social networking services at the same time? Confused and frustrated by the need to manage all your social contact lists? We empathize. And apparently so do the folks at EverConnect Corporation, who has launched their everconnect.me MORE
Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Social Networking in Web 1.0. MORE
Essentially, Klout is a program that measures your web presence and its influence on other people based on social media networks. Many leading authorities, from editors to social media masters, claim that focusing on Klout scores is unnecessary at this point in time. MORE
Do social networking sites tend do die faster than other types? A social network increases its value faster than linearly as the number of users grow. On the other hand, your Google searches may take you to content sites that nobody updates anymore. MORE
How to Maintain a Consistent Brand Identity Across Social Networks written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. When social media marketing first began it was rather easy to maintain a consistent brand identity. MORE
When your business profile clearly lists your business address, your physical location will automatically show up when people search for your area of expertise using Google Maps. As we all know, there’s no secret formula for getting to the top of the Google search charts. MORE
People who conduct searches on a website convert at a higher rate than people who don’t. So it makes sense to find ways to improve the search on your e-commerce site. Also, avoid using images that look like a search box, such as text inside a small rectangular box. MORE
Amidst all the hype and media coverage of Facebook’s recent IPO and the rise of Pinterest, there is one powerful social network that you are probably a member of and not even using it to its full extent – LinkedIn. Social network image courtesy of Shutterstock. MORE
Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. We’ll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social, Ivy Leaguers. Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. We’ll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won’t be distracted from using the free search stuff. MORE
The Social Layer. Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer. Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. Social Search Is the Web’s New Disruptor. MORE
It’s more fun tackling the challenges of a startup in between job search activities, than sitting around feeling sorry for yourself and waiting for status callbacks on interviews (which seem to have gone out of style). Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. MORE
« Mission Research Raises Series B Financing | Main | Goodbye Google Reader, Hello NetVibes » Do Women Care More About Social Networks? To boil it down, the most popular social networking sites - Facebook , MySpace, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 - are roughly 60:40 female:male. MORE
by Maureen Francisco, author of “ It Takes Moxie “ The job search landscape continues to change every year. Use Social Media. You never know who’s searching. So make sure you are always networking, whether in person or through social-networking sites. MORE
It is possible, however, if you diligently apply the following tips: Make Your Job Search Your Job. Use the hours you would normally spend at the office for your job search and approach it with a professional, goal-oriented attitude. Network. by Teddy Hunt. MORE
Social Networks Will Become Marketplaces This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. For the last few years I’ve been promoting the idea that social networks are like outposts, in many respects, best suited to point the way to your hub or main content site. MORE
A social networking app for dog owners made its debut in Austin this week. It’s BarkHappy, a location based meet up and search app, for dog owners. The app lets dog owners arrange meetings […] The post BarkHappy Launches a Social Networking App for Dogs in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. The app, which is available on Android and IOS devices, lets dog owners discover other dogs in their area through geolocation. MORE
What you need to be aware of, before blindly pinning images, is a service called Skimlinks that Pinterest uses to search out and alter these types of links renaming Pinterest as the affiliate ID associated with the pin. Who doesn’t love pinning things on Pinterest? MORE
First of all, Google is the queen mother of all search engines. Secondly, Google has some really outstanding products that are attached to its search engine. Google+ is more than just a “wannabe” social media outlet. by Alicia Lawrence, WebpageFX . MORE
Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. MORE
The scenario has changed drastically within a few years as the far reaching potential of social sites is being experienced and explored. Some departments and functions within organizations have had a complete social makeover. Social Media Impact on Internal communications. MORE
Whether you are conscious of it or not, these behaviors tell social media algorithms that this is the content you really want to see. As such, leading platforms continue to promote the most viral content dictated by your digital social circle. MORE
Home Best of 500 Hats About Dave Startup Metrics Dave on Twitter Archive Pages About 500 Hats & 500 Startups About Dave McClure About Dave follow me on Twitter Top Hat Posts Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers. Q: Social Networks still Sexy? MORE
(We’ve looked) at how social media sites can be used as powerful networking tools for new college graduates, sharing our best picks for tips, tools, and more for Facebook , Twitter , and now, LinkedIn. Search to find the right one for you, and dive in to become an active member. MORE
Forbes Social Power Influencer. If you’re looking for cutting edge tips for social media, check out the tweets of a “new media star.”. Global head of social media at Ford Motor Company, husband, dad, podcaster, proprietor of [link] , and a generally nice guy. Social Influencer ? MORE
We all use web search engines every day. There are about 3 Billion search queries every day around the world. We hear pundits say that search hasn't advanced much beyond the search box and 10 blue links. Pundits would have you believe search innovation is dead. MORE
Leveraging Social Media and Search Marketing to Skyrocket Your Local Business’s Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And social media and search marketing, used properly, helps you skyrocket your local sales. Studies indicate that there has been a tremendous growth in the local, mobile search volumes over the past few years. Social Media Platforms to Leverage. Publish your content to your network directly. MORE
Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable , a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands, including Verizon and Neutrogena. He is author of The New York Times best seller Likeable Social Media. Search using words that your prospective customers would say as well. MORE
Search engines love fresh, new content. Search-engine spiders-those little robots that are scouring the web, 24/7, get energized when they locate something new…especially if it’s closely related to the words that are being searched by your customers/clients. MORE
2014 has been a great year for social media marketing. We’ve seen the same trend play out on Google over the last few years where paid search in many categories is now too expensive for startups. MORE
Not only is the market overflowing with highly qualified individuals, but to complicate matters, the job search and application functions of yesteryear are no longer valid. To avoid falling into either of these traps, search for keywords that you’re thinking of using in your own profile. MORE
Does your brand stand out in search results? These five reasons may account for why your brand is not showing up at the top of search queries. Fresh and relevant content attracts users as well as search engines. If a search engine can't read your content, you are irrelevant. MORE
Google dominates search. They hypothesize that by injecting social and real-time data, along with interactions with real people, your search results become much better. you will immediately notice that they completely do away with search lists. MORE
Facebook was created by an awkward college kid who wasn’t blond enough to make the rowing team in order to have a forum for Harvard students to socialize. Join dialogues and be social. After all, Facebook is a social network. MORE
Along with the traditional resume, a well-written cover letter, and an impressive handshake , social media is an absolutely crucial component to a productive and successful job search. So what are some ways you can effectively use social media in your job search? MORE
Diego Basch
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Do social networking sites tend do die faster than other types? A social network increases its value faster than linearly as the number of users grow. On the other hand, your Google searches may take you to content sites that nobody updates anymore.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 13, 2015
How to Maintain a Consistent Brand Identity Across Social Networks written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. When social media marketing first began it was rather easy to maintain a consistent brand identity.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 11, 2014
2014 has been a great year for social media marketing. We’ve seen the same trend play out on Google over the last few years where paid search in many categories is now too expensive for startups.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Social Networks Will Become Marketplaces This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. For the last few years I’ve been promoting the idea that social networks are like outposts, in many respects, best suited to point the way to your hub or main content site.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
JUNE 2, 2013
Google wants its users to be able to search and find high quality sites that offer fresh and original content. The idea is that the more popular your content is, the more likely it is to be shared and linked to which will contribute to your search engine optimisation success.
SiliconHills
JULY 24, 2015
A social networking app for dog owners made its debut in Austin this week. It’s BarkHappy, a location based meet up and search app, for dog owners. The app lets dog owners arrange meetings […] The post BarkHappy Launches a Social Networking App for Dogs in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. The app, which is available on Android and IOS devices, lets dog owners discover other dogs in their area through geolocation.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 25, 2015
It’s more fun tackling the challenges of a startup in between job search activities, than sitting around feeling sorry for yourself and waiting for status callbacks on interviews (which seem to have gone out of style). Use social networking and blogging to get your message out.
Christine.net
APRIL 4, 2008
« Mission Research Raises Series B Financing | Main | Goodbye Google Reader, Hello NetVibes » Do Women Care More About Social Networks? To boil it down, the most popular social networking sites - Facebook , MySpace, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 - are roughly 60:40 female:male.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 2, 2014
First of all, Google is the queen mother of all search engines. Secondly, Google has some really outstanding products that are attached to its search engine. Google+ is more than just a “wannabe” social media outlet. by Alicia Lawrence, WebpageFX .
YoungUpstarts
JULY 25, 2012
Feeling overburdened by trying to handle multiple social networking services at the same time? Confused and frustrated by the need to manage all your social contact lists? We empathize. And apparently so do the folks at EverConnect Corporation, who has launched their everconnect.me
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 12, 2014
When your business profile clearly lists your business address, your physical location will automatically show up when people search for your area of expertise using Google Maps. As we all know, there’s no secret formula for getting to the top of the Google search charts.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Not only is the market overflowing with highly qualified individuals, but to complicate matters, the job search and application functions of yesteryear are no longer valid. To avoid falling into either of these traps, search for keywords that you’re thinking of using in your own profile.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
by Maureen Francisco, author of “ It Takes Moxie “ The job search landscape continues to change every year. Use Social Media. You never know who’s searching. So make sure you are always networking, whether in person or through social-networking sites.
500 Hats
MARCH 27, 2008
Home Best of 500 Hats About Dave Startup Metrics Dave on Twitter Archive Pages About 500 Hats & 500 Startups About Dave McClure About Dave follow me on Twitter Top Hat Posts Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers. Q: Social Networks still Sexy?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 4, 2015
Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2014
It is possible, however, if you diligently apply the following tips: Make Your Job Search Your Job. Use the hours you would normally spend at the office for your job search and approach it with a professional, goal-oriented attitude. Network. by Teddy Hunt.
www.readwriteweb.com
AUGUST 2, 2012
The Social Layer. Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer. Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. This is Part 2 in a series of articles about social discovery. Social Search Is the Web’s New Disruptor.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 30, 2015
Leveraging Social Media and Search Marketing to Skyrocket Your Local Business’s Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And social media and search marketing, used properly, helps you skyrocket your local sales. Studies indicate that there has been a tremendous growth in the local, mobile search volumes over the past few years. Social Media Platforms to Leverage. Publish your content to your network directly.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Optimizing Your Tweets for Search written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Twitter’s among the most powerful social networks in the world for brand awareness – which is why it’s of the utmost importance that you know how to tap into it. In the right hands, Twitter may well be among the most powerful social networks in the world. I suspect this is tied to the nature of the social network.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
JANUARY 21, 2013
Essentially, Klout is a program that measures your web presence and its influence on other people based on social media networks. Many leading authorities, from editors to social media masters, claim that focusing on Klout scores is unnecessary at this point in time.
ArcticStartup
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
You can google ambiguous search terms, try to dig through LinkedIn, or you can search through business directories with limited success. Gard Jenssen explains, "For our search we’re partly based on our company data and partly on crawling and indexing all the world’s companies’ websites.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
JANUARY 3, 2013
Forbes Social Power Influencer. If you’re looking for cutting edge tips for social media, check out the tweets of a “new media star.”. Global head of social media at Ford Motor Company, husband, dad, podcaster, proprietor of [link] , and a generally nice guy. Social Influencer ?
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
We all use web search engines every day. There are about 3 Billion search queries every day around the world. We hear pundits say that search hasn't advanced much beyond the search box and 10 blue links. Pundits would have you believe search innovation is dead.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
People who conduct searches on a website convert at a higher rate than people who don’t. So it makes sense to find ways to improve the search on your e-commerce site. Also, avoid using images that look like a search box, such as text inside a small rectangular box.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Foursquare Turns Into Powerful Local Search Engine This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. The way Explore works is that it allows you to search for businesses that your friends and the other hundreds of millions of Foursquare users have found and commented on.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
How to Track Your Social Media Efforts written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If your small business is taking advantage of social media to engage with customers in hopes of growing your business, how do you know if your efforts are paying off?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 15, 2016
Whether you are conscious of it or not, these behaviors tell social media algorithms that this is the content you really want to see. As such, leading platforms continue to promote the most viral content dictated by your digital social circle.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Social Networking in Web 1.0.
Up and Running
JUNE 11, 2012
Amidst all the hype and media coverage of Facebook’s recent IPO and the rise of Pinterest, there is one powerful social network that you are probably a member of and not even using it to its full extent – LinkedIn. Social network image courtesy of Shutterstock.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Facebook was created by an awkward college kid who wasn’t blond enough to make the rowing team in order to have a forum for Harvard students to socialize. Join dialogues and be social. After all, Facebook is a social network.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 2, 2012
Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable , a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands, including Verizon and Neutrogena. He is author of The New York Times best seller Likeable Social Media. Search using words that your prospective customers would say as well.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2012
The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2012
For example: - Mobile searches increased by a massive 400-percent in 2011. 70-percent of people on social networks are also online shoppers. 68-percent of businesses plan to integrate social media marketing with their e-mail marketing.
Inc Startups
JULY 25, 2012
Does your brand stand out in search results? These five reasons may account for why your brand is not showing up at the top of search queries. Fresh and relevant content attracts users as well as search engines. If a search engine can't read your content, you are irrelevant.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 23, 2012
(We’ve looked) at how social media sites can be used as powerful networking tools for new college graduates, sharing our best picks for tips, tools, and more for Facebook , Twitter , and now, LinkedIn. Search to find the right one for you, and dive in to become an active member.
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
We all use web search engines a lot.about 3 Billion times a day around the world. We hear pundits say that search sucks , or hasn't advanced much beyond 10 blue links. Eleven years ago I was director of engineering at AltaVista, the best search engine in the world at the time.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
LinkedIn is a powerful social networking tool that provides an amazing platform to connect professionals across the globe. Search Results. When you’re starting to get your name out there, you’ve got to reach out in several directions at once.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Along with the traditional resume, a well-written cover letter, and an impressive handshake , social media is an absolutely crucial component to a productive and successful job search. So what are some ways you can effectively use social media in your job search?
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
APRIL 4, 2012
What you need to be aware of, before blindly pinning images, is a service called Skimlinks that Pinterest uses to search out and alter these types of links renaming Pinterest as the affiliate ID associated with the pin. Who doesn’t love pinning things on Pinterest?
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 30, 2012
Search engines love fresh, new content. Search-engine spiders-those little robots that are scouring the web, 24/7, get energized when they locate something new…especially if it’s closely related to the words that are being searched by your customers/clients.
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