Janet Fouts

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Twitter to Offer Deals with Earlybird

Janet Fouts

In these times what’s not to love about buying a coupon for a dinner at 40 or 50% of it’s market value? I guess the investors are buying it too! I’m a big fan of group coupon networks, deals and discounts offered through Twitter. In fact, Groupon raised over $175 million in funding. They’re not alone of course.

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Facebook- FBML or iFrames?

Janet Fouts

This buys you some time to decide if you want to use FBML or you’re ready to jump into iframes. So what’s a girl to do? Go follow this tutorial to add FBML tabs to your Facebook Page now, in case you need them. Nobody will know, you remove the tabs from the navigation like this. Now for the exciting part! Check it out.

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Meercat jumps on Twitter Video

Janet Fouts

It will be very interesting to see how long Twitter let’s this Meerkat live or if they snap it up and buy it (as they should). In some ways it’s like Snapchat in that it’s immediate and once the live stream is over the video is gone and can’t be seen again unless you save it and reshare it.

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NEVER Feed the Trolls

Janet Fouts

Being a satirist at heart, Loren got the bright idea of a puppet show in which his Shel Israel puppet interviewed some social media thought leaders and he even went so far as to buy the domain ShelIsrael.com and posted his shows there (Shel finally got control of the domain.) and even retained sponsorship for the videos.

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Need a little Social Discipline?

Janet Fouts

I agree it’s hard, but when you look at how much time it takes to cold-call a customer, visit their office, buy them lunch, walk their dog and take out their trash to get their business it’s nothing. I get around 800 emails a day (half of them are alerts, newsletters and feed reports for my clients). Break it down.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

Meerkat has already introduced an option to add a popup at the end of the stream to connect to external sites; like the one to buy Madonna’s album on iTunes. This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. The apps are relatively easy to use. These apps attract trolls and spammers like mad. “– Frank Strong.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

Meerkat has already introduced an option to add a popup at the end of the stream to connect to external sites; like the one to buy Madonna’s album on iTunes. This is a great Q&A or conversation tool with your audience. The apps are relatively easy to use. These apps attract trolls and spammers like mad. “– Frank Strong.

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