Social Media Updates: Page 334

  • 6 Viral Video Marketing Tactics for YouTube

    YouTube is one of the best ways to reach a target audience. It's a video search engine based on keywords from users who want to find specific videos. Simply uploading a lot of video does not guarantee success, but the following tips on viral video marketing strategies can help build your followin...

    By • Nov. 20, 2014

  • Is Twitter's Messaging Enough for Wall Street?

    Twitter, my former-fave social media app, is suffering from low mojo amongst Wall Street analysts. Since its IPO one year ago (November 2013), the honeymoon is over and tough questions are becoming the norm.Twitter has had a recent spate of lackluster messaging being disseminated via tweets and b...

    By • Nov. 17, 2014

  • Facebook Messenger Reaches 500 Million Users

    You Don't Reach Half a Billion Friends Without Spamming a Few EnemiesHalf a billion people now use Facebook's standalone app, Messenger. Should we all be congratulating Facebook for their feat? Messenger seems to have done what Slingshot and Facebook's other failed apps could not.It would be quit...

    By • Nov. 17, 2014

  • Users, Activities, And Brands On Pinterest In 2014 [INFOGRAPHIC]

    "With 70 million users in the world and numerous social interactions every day, Pinterest is a social network on the move... The latest statistics about users' activities and brands' heavy mobilization prove it."Take a look at this infographic, created by Over-Graph and Christian Radmilovitch, to...

    By • Nov. 17, 2014

  • Social Media Marketing: Build Your Business on Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Are you using Google+ for marketing purposes? Do you want to learn how to grow your business on Google Plus?"The following infographic will serve as a visual guide to anyone who is not well-versed in the platform of Google Plus about how to optimally use it; outlining how to create and engage au...

    By • Nov. 16, 2014

  • Facebook Tweaks Its News Feed

    Just Another Brick in the WallFacebook's news feed is the most important part of one of the key sites on the internet. Almost everyone who has ever owned a computer is able to at least recognise it (particularly as so many other websites have emulated it in so many ways), and most of these people...

    By • Nov. 12, 2014

  • Your Holiday Facebook Ads Should Have Started Yesterday

    Don't be surprised if you start to see a "buy" button on Facebook in the coming weeks.That's not a prediction, but it is an educated guess. The social giant has been testing the buy button since mid-summer, and with recent research pointing to a big holiday season for shopping through Facebook it...

    By • Nov. 12, 2014
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    LinkedIn Gives Back to Veterans on Veterans Day

    On the most important Holiday in the United States, LinkedIn launched what its Global Content Marketing Manager for the Marketing Solutions Group, Jason Miller, would most certainly call "Big Rock" content. It's essentially one of the most thorough, well-organized resource hubs for Veterans trans...

    By • Nov. 12, 2014

  • Facebook: More Than Social Media

    Facebook isn't only interested in making money off your personal details and sponsored ads. The popular social media network has been taking an interesting turn recently: amidst the usual selfies and statuses, Facebook has displayed a conscious effort to actually try and better the world.First, t...

    By • Nov. 10, 2014

  • The Utility of LinkedIn Groups

    LinkedIn is not the network I spend the most time on but perhaps it should be. Facebook is where I connect with friends/colleagues on a personal level, Twitter is where I share news with a larger sphere, but LinkedIn, I'm finding, is actually where I learn things. That learning doesn't happen in ...

    By • Nov. 10, 2014

  • Everything Is Turning into Facebook

    Twitter And WhatsApp, Sitting In A Tree, C-O-P-Y-I-N-GIt's no big reveal to say that quite a lot of people have, use and enjoy Facebook. These people - particularly the ones who are relatively new to the internet and barely manage to grasp the site's basics - like the way it works. They like how ...

    By • Nov. 9, 2014

  • WhatsApp to Say When Your Text Is Seen

    Tick, Tick, TockIf there's one thing that's kept my ego treading slightly above water for the first few years of my adult life, it's that maybe all the texts I've sent that haven't been responded to have have had a perfectly valid reason to be ignored. Maybe, just maybe, my SMS carrier screwed up...

    By • Nov. 8, 2014

  • LinkedIn Activity: Trying to Manage the Virtually Unmanageable

    This article attempts to help intermediate and advanced LinkedIn users understand how their LinkedIn activity is broadcast and shared with other users, and provides recommendations for the best approaches to managing that activity within LinkedIn's constraints. It provides a comparable assessment...

    By • Nov. 7, 2014

  • Ways in Which Social Media Can Help Fashion Trends

    Like every other industry, the fashion industry has also adopted social media for advertising and promotional purposes. And why shouldn't they? Social media has allowed many businesses to reach out to millions of users, build relationships with them and market their products and services. The out...

    By • Nov. 7, 2014

  • 5 Winning Tips for a Successful Twitter Contest

    Are you looking for a new, interactive way to engage your target audience? A Twitter contest may be the answer. A successful social media contest can do many things for your brand - increase followers, drive engagement, create brand awareness, and more. With Twitter specifically, there is the add...

    By • Nov. 6, 2014

  • How to Kick Start Your Referral Networking on LinkedIn

    LinkedIn is one of the best tools for finding and generating referral business.If you're looking to kick start your networking, start with LinkedIn and who you already know. According to Dale Carnegie, 91% of customers say they'd happily give referrals, but only 11% of salespeople actually ask f...

    By • Nov. 6, 2014

  • Twitter Generated $716 Million in Auto Sales in 2013

    If there's one thing that marketers should learn from Twitter, it's that you can make a big impact with a small message. Though it may be trickier than Facebook marketing, the sheer number of Twitter marketing success stories is evidence that the platform has value to marketers and advertisers. F...

    By • Nov. 6, 2014

  • How a Teenage Worker Became an Overnight Sensation

    Alex Christopher Laboeuf, a Texan teen, was just doing his job, working at Target, when a teenage girl with a large Twitter following snapped a candid picture of him. She tweeted it, with the caption 'YOOOOOOOOOO', and an internet sensation was born.The Texan teen, now known as 'Alex From Target'...

    By • Nov. 6, 2014

  • SMT Shorts: Bob Gilbreath on the Pinterest vs. Instagram Debate

    Bob Gilbreath, Founder of Ahalogy, discussed how B2B companies can use Pinterest, the great Pinterest vs. Instagram debate, and how Pinterest is leaving the follower model behind.

    By • Nov. 6, 2014

  • Facebook Introduces 'Dark Web' Access for Tor Browser

    Who Turned Out The Rights?Those unfamiliar with the constant war for net neutrality that rages on behind the net curtains of the internet may not be familiar with Tor, the open source service which pledges to "prevent somebody watching your internet connection." Tor is non-profit, and its main pr...

    By • Nov. 5, 2014

  • US Gangs Are Using Social Media

    The Bloods, The Crips And The RetweetsDue to social media's unique ability to propagate rumour and news faster than anything else in existence, it's no surprise that various subsets of the community have tapped into its power over the years. Social media is, if nothing else, an absolutely perfect...

    By • Nov. 4, 2014

  • 4 Social Platforms More Popular Than Facebook

    Last year, Facebook hit a new turning point in its nine-year history. It lost users. But to whom?Over the last two years, social media across the globe has exploded. In India, social media users grew by an estimated 51.7% in 2012-in a country of 1.25 billion people, that's sizable. Indonesia had ...

    By • Nov. 3, 2014

  • 19 LinkedIn Ninja Tricks Experts Haven't Taught You Yet

    Have you ever wondered if you're missing some of the functions on LinkedIn that may help you with your business? It's hard to keep up with all of the changes and functionality on social media sites. It's something that my team and I do daily to make sure we stay up-to-date on all of the tricks, t...

    By • Oct. 31, 2014

  • 8 Brilliant Facebook Marketing Tactics to Use Right Now

    Facebook makes a lot of changes and that can be really frustrating for marketers, especially those of us who do it all ourselves, right? Part of my job is to keep you up-to-date on changes and tactics that will help you successfully navigate your social media marketing.Remember, more time is spen...

    By • Oct. 31, 2014

  • How to Use Twitter Search for a 360 Degree View of Your Brand

    The way most businesses manage their Twitter communications, usually comes down to three things: posting, monitoring and browsing. The posting of updates and tweets, sometimes through a scheduling tool such as Buffer and the browsing that takes place in 'realtime', usually on Twitter itself.All t...

    By • Oct. 31, 2014