Online Sales Success

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video What happens when you blend social media? On a serious note, Read the book GroundSwell by people from Forrester Research.

Darren Rowse has some good tips on how to use social media sites: Be an Active Participant Have a Consistent Presence on Different Social Media Sites Add Value to the Wider Community Let Others Sell You

Why use Facebook for business? To find more opportunities to network with other business people. Here are some more from Tinu Abayomi-Paul:   1- The very nature of Facebook is viral. 2- Facebook is the ultimate in social presence marketing 3- Your target market tells you exactly what it wants, and they’re easy to find. [...]

With all the growth is social media sites I have been thinking about setting up a page on Facebook. I already use StumbleUpon a lot and have been very pleased with the traffic boost it provides. I have been hesitant about Facebook because you can’t see what is really like without opening an account, but [...]

Is that cool or what? Sign in was quick and interface is easy to use. Don’t know what it looks like on WAP devices … those users should just throw in the towel and move up to the iPhone.

From PC World Social networking site LinkedIn is extending its service from desktop PCs to mobile phones and iPods. LinkedIn’s 19 million members can now view other members’ profiles, invitations and updates via the company’s Wap site, which went live yesterday in six languages. A specially tailored version has also been made available for iPhone [...]

Last month I attended an event by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia held at Villanova University School of Business. The speaker was Adam Nash, Senior Director of Product at LinkedIn. As I always recommend clients set up a LinkedIn account and link to their new blog for the SEO benefits, I was eager to [...]

 97th Floor has developed a great extention for Firefox. The tool is the the ultimate time saver to building powerful social media accounts. One of the secrets of top Diggers, Stumblers, Navigators etc… is being the first to submit stories already becoming popular on other social news sites. For example you can browse Reddit to [...]

What is Social Media Marketing and how do I use it to promote my business? Social Media Marketing (SMM) combines the goals of internet marketing with social media sites such as Digg, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and many others.[1] The SMM goals will be different for every business or organization, however most will involve some form [...]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion listed the Four P’s of Blog Marketing: Passionate – Write about issues that are near and dear to your heart Purposeful – Make sure you keep the end in mind; why are you blogging? Present – Keep an eye on what’s topical today Positional – Take a stand on an [...]