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Sunday, February 7th, 2010While you watch tonight’s Super Bowl game, keep an eye on your favorite television ads. I bet you will see many of them mention Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, LinkedIn, and FourSquare within the ads. This is a great way for companies to direct a lot of consumers to quickly connect with them through social media. I’d [...]
Are you being LOUD enough?
Friday, February 5th, 2010Chances are you probably have several potential target customer groups. Have you stopped to think about how you are coming across to your audience? Are you being too sales-y? How well are you interacting with your audience?
A great way to start would be to set your tone to the audience as well as objective. Whether [...]
Going Mobile
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Wordpress is without a question one of the more popular blogging/website platforms. The world has been going mobile more and more lately and Wordpress is not sitting on its hands.
ROI of Social Media: Customer Service
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010This is the first post of a series that will delve into what social media can do for your Rate Of Return, aka ROI. Let’s start with customer service:
I host my websites with MediaTemple (MT). I chose them because of the support they provide, and the fact that the package they had to offer was just what [...]
The Economist: A Special Report on Social Networking
Sunday, January 31st, 2010This week’s (January 30th – February 5th 2010) issue of The Economist did a special report on Social Networking. Reading through a few of their special report articles helped me realize that no matter how much time we at SMCpros spend in social media, it is still such a young piece of global culture. [...]
Football Fever: Minnesota Vikings on Social Media
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Who’s ready for some Vikings football Sunday night? I know I am! For a shorter blog post this week, I thought I would point out some of the players’ social media sites you might want to follow. Keep an eye on tweets coming out of New Orleans before and after the game. This should [...]
Virtual Meetings
Friday, January 22nd, 2010We live in an extremely fast paced environment and the need for virtual meetings has been growing fast. One of the best services I have come across and used is GoToMeeting.
Text your donations to 90999
Sunday, January 17th, 2010In December, I donated $5 to Alicia Keys’ Keep A Child Alive foundation by texting “ALIVE” to 90999. Making the donation was really easy since I could use my cell phone to donate and have the $5 added to my Sprint bill at the end of the month. The texting process was very straightforward as [...]
Facebook: Live Feed vs. News Feed
Friday, January 15th, 2010Are you using your Facebook feeds optimally? Facebook provides two different feeds, the news feed and the live feed. What’s the difference? The news feed is an intelligent collection of what Facebook thinks you will like to see based on your past interaction with the site, but doesn’t include everything that goes on. The live [...]
Using Tweetdeck as a cross-platform
Friday, January 15th, 2010Want an easy way to manage all of your Social Media from one place? Of the many applications available, there is only one application that I have found to be great for doing just that - Tweetdeck.
Tweetdeck is a cross-platform application that allows you to update your Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin information from one central spot. It [...]
