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Beyond Your Borders: Promoting Your Business Internationally Using Social Media

SocMed Sean

Lingo24 has been helping some of the world’s biggest global brands with their localization campaigns since 2001. Which sites to choose The social media sites you might already be familiar with – sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – are all global brands with their own localized settings for foreign language users.

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Praying and piggybacking: Who is Nesamani and why are brands talking about him?

Unmetric

Nesamani is a character played by Tamil actor and comedian Vadivelu in the 2001 film Friends. A user on a Facebook memes page asked a harmless question about hammers, leading to a Tamil user making a reference to Nesamani. Why was the world suddenly concerned about Nesamani? See the latest Nesamani posts by brands.

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Using social media across cultures

Janet Fouts

However, the majority are still only focusing on major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. A 2010 report from Econsultancy found that over 80% of marketers are planning to spend more on social media this year, but only a quarter will focus their campaigns in more than one country. Choosing your networks.

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5 Steps to Launch Your International Social Media

Convince & Convert

Launched in 2001, Lingo24 has clients in over sixty countries, and translated over forty million words in the last year. Even though Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google are American companies, social media doesn’t begin and end at the shores of the USA. Mixi – the biggest social network in Japan. Based in Malaysia.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Quick and Dirty Competitive Research for Keywords : If you’re looking for keywords to target in your SEO campaign, this guide will tell you what to do with available online tools and websites. It’s about being active all the time, watching the progress of your campaigns as they go through their cycles. Link Building.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First (Real) Stop: Friendster In 2001, I took the plunge into Friendster , and as an early adopter, I befriended just about anyone I had some sort of association with and reciprocated every friend request. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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WebVisible Contest to Award Free Local Online Advertising to Small Businesses

Bill Hartzer

From the business owner whose daughter is helping her learn to use “Happy Face” (aka, Facebook), to the one who doesn’t believe people go online to look for a barber, it’s clear – there’s still a Great Divide. Study: Facebook Fan Pages are Great Marketing Tool for Businesses Companies that use Facebook and Facebook fan pages to market.