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Social Media
By know, I’m almost certain you’ve heard of FourSquare or Gowalla. You may recall I introduced what I like to call the “new social media” or “location based networking”, back in Januaryand just at the beginning of the month I told you about a business who used FourSquare to increase their profits by 110%. Now [...]
Social Media News Brief
Google thinks it figures out how to get though Chineses laws, but then the government stuck back. We’ll give you the latest details in the battle between China & Google. Then we’re talking spam. One social media site has almost no spam, while another is being flooded with it. And the latest internet craze becomes [...]
Social Media News Brief
Google no longer in first place. What social media site has taken the gold from the giant search engine? Then, can the battle between Google & China soon be over? Why a letter from several companies may have given the world a big clue that the end is near. And one of the most anticipated [...]
Social Media,Social Networking,Studies & Stats,Viral Marketing
We often here of studies that find consumers who follow or fan companies or brands on a social networking site, like Facebook or Twitter are more likely to purchase products or services from them. Once again, the latest study from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies confirms that. Amazingly, the study found that consumers who follow [...]
Industry News,Search News,Web 2.0
For as long as many us can remember, Google has been the most visited site on the web. You may recall, that during Christmas & New Years Day, Facebook was the most visited site for the day, but Google quickly took that spot back. However, HitWise said during March 7 and March 13 Facebook surpassed [...]
Viral Marketing,Web 2.0
AJ Bombers, is a popular burger place in Milwaukee owned by Joe Sorge. On Sunday, Sorge’s sales were up 110% thanks to the new social media application FourSquare. 161 FourSquare users checked into the restaurant at the same time, that’s between 25-35% of Milwakkee’s FourSquare user population. So what brought 161 FourSquare users to this already [...]
Studies & Stats
According to the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, the relationship between social media and small businesses have doubled in the past year from 12% to 24% in the United States. The study which was released earlier this week found that roughly one in five small businesses have embraced social media and are integrating [...]
Social Media,Studies & Stats
It was just last week, I was explaining how some of my predictions for the next decade in the social media world were coming true. This week, thanks to the latest study from Pew Internet, another prediction has become a reality. The study analyzed how American’s are now using social media and other variables to consume their [...]
Social Media News Brief
Facebook accomplished a few major accomplishments in January according to recent surveys, and could the tree in your front yard soon be twittering?! Get up to date on today’s social media news brief! Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Search News,Social Media,Studies & Stats
We already know that Internet users are spending most of their time on Facebook more than any other site. Despite the time spent on the site, Google continues to dominate the web as the most visited site on the web. However a new report from Compete.com shows that Facebook has now taken out Yahoo as the [...]
