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Why Stalking Your Website Visitors Isn't a Very Good Idea

February 9, 2012 by Bob Apollo with 43 views

 I recently received a LinkedIn message from someone whose profile I had accidently visited, saying something along the lines of “I just noticed that you visited my profile on LinkedIn. Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with.” This is the second time this has happened in the past couple of weeks, and I hope that... [read more]

Want Facebook Business Results? Get Off of Facebook!

February 3, 2012 by Pam Moore with 124 views

For most business leaders, it isn’t long after you setup the Facebook business page that you realize it’s not the magic genie you thought it would be. You realize it is going to take real work. You got that right! So let’s roll up our sleeves and crack this Facebook nut! [read more]

The Value of Writing Things Down

February 1, 2012 by Bill Ives with 49 views

Here is an interesting bit of research. Kevin Purdy reports in, The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out, that “a Forrester Research survey of business professionals found that 87 percent of them supplement gadgets with paper productivity, and 47 percent thought their personal and company efficiency would improve with better note-taking.” [read more]

10 Social Posting Tips and Traps

January 31, 2012 by Daniel Kehrer with 106 views

One question business owners often ask about social media is what to post on Facebook, Google+ or other social pages and platforms. The list of options is long, but here are five easy things to consider posting, plus five things you should never put on your Facebook business page or in any other public forum for that matter: [read more]

Connect to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and G+

January 30, 2012 by Brad Feld with 54 views

I noticed something when I tried out two apps (Mingly and Cobook) this morning – they each immediately asked to connect me to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter during their onboarding process. And, by using my Gmail as the starting point / authentication, they connected me to G+. [read more]

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10 Steps to Boost Your Webinar Registration and Attendance

January 26, 2012 by Katie Reynolds with 78 views

Have you used webinars lately to nurture your audience? They’re a great tool to engage an audience with your content and your brand – if you can get people to register and attend. It can be difficult to get very busy people to open an email and commit themselves to an hour-long webinar. [read more]

Moving Your Web Site Into the 21st Century

January 26, 2012 by Bill Ives with 26 views

Geoff Bock provides a useful look at what firms need to do to make their Web sites relevant to today’s Web users with is article, Beyond the Web page: Broader Web strategy a must for business success. He sees 2011 at the end of Page-oriented Web sites.Geoff notes, “Enterprises can no longer afford to maintain their digital presences... [read more]

11 Tips for Increasing Your Twitter Followers

January 24, 2012 by Jim Ewel with 488 views

Some people, as well as services like Klout, partially measure your influence by the number of people following you on Twitter. More Twitter followers can also mean more readers of your blog, and more opportunities to spread your message. So how do you increase your number of followers? Here are 11 Tips for increasing your Twitter followers. [read more]

7 Steps to a Captivating Social Network Profile

January 23, 2012 by Erin Tillotson with 68 views

I’d like to introduce you to Mr. Blank. I know you’ve seen him on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites. He’s the one with no profile picture and no information. [read more]

Google Waves A Red Cape: Why Your Business Should Be on Google+

January 19, 2012 by Jim Ewel with 74 views

Changes to Google's search engine mean your business needs to stay on top of Google+. [read more]

SocialMediaToday.com Will Honor the SOPA Blackout Today

January 18, 2012 by Robin Carey with 18 views

Our largest community, SocialMediaToday.com, is dark today in support of the protest against SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act that places misguided restrictions on the Internet. [read more]

Does Your Business Need a Mobile App?

January 13, 2012 by Vipool Prajapati with 188 views

 Recently, New York Times reported that the one millionth mobile app went into the market. Are mobile apps now as much a requirement for a business as a web presence and a 1-800 number? Thinking along the lines of below questions may help determine if your business really needs a mobile app:Know Your CustomerForemost, and as obvious... [read more]

You Cannot Ignore Google+ for Your Business

January 11, 2012 by Drew McLellan with 231 views

How you connect on Google+ will impact your business in search results. [read more]

So Many Tablets, But Only a Few Are Selling Well

January 10, 2012 by Bill Ives with 47 views

What are your experiences with tablets? [read more]

Connectivity Does Not Mean Availability

January 4, 2012 by Jacob Morgan with 29 views

Not too long ago your workday started when you arrived at work and ended when you left work.  Then, overtime, as new forms of communication were introduced and implemented in the workplace work started to play a more central role in our lives.  Work was no longer about when you got to work and left work it became about when you... [read more]

More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

December 31, 2011 by Brad Feld with 68 views

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. The post, and the comments, are full of super useful stuff that every entrepreneur should read carefully. I sent the link for the post out to the Foundry Group CEO email list and it generated a great discussion thread, including one of the... [read more]

5 Reasons Why It’s Time for CIOs in Mid-Sized Businesses to Move to the Cloud

December 18, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 81 views

Despite numerous market research forecasts predicting that small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) would be in the vanguard of adopting today’s rapidly expanding array of Cloud-based services, the truth is that most mid-sized businesses have been slow to join the migration to these ‘on-demand’ alternatives. In too many cases, it has been... [read more]

In The Messy NFC Battle, Consumers Are The Biggest Losers

December 15, 2011 by x x with 31 views

Format wars aren't new--hello VHS versus Betamax and Blu-ray versus HD-DVD! But a different kind of format war is casting a shadow on NFC and the amazing benefits it could bring to future payment tech. Google's Wallet is among the very first large-scale efforts at transforming how you pay for things, injecting futuristic wireless... [read more]

4 Tips to Help You Successfully Advertise on LinkedIn

December 14, 2011 by Shashi Bellamkonda with 84 views

Are you a B2B company? If you’ve thought about moving some of your traditional advertising online, consider advertising on LinkedIn along with Google and Facebook. With their focus on professional networking, it’s a great way to reach your target market. [read more]

What the New Twitter Brand Pages Mean to Marketers

December 9, 2011 by Steve Olenski with 108 views

Late to the party or not, Twitter has followed in Facebook's and Google+'s footsteps with the launch of their new brand pages and brand marketers would be wise to sit up and take notice of the new features coming to a Twitter account near them. Clearly the brand battle lines are being drawn. [read more]

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