Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 14, 2011

Amidst all the hype with social media, there’s a growing trend that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle: Mobile marketing. Before starting my own company in 2006, I worked for 16 years in the wireless industry for AT&T Wireless and Cingular, so I’ve watched mobile develop over the years with more than a casual passers-by interest.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I am just putting the finishing touches on the 2nd Edition of Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger (and BTW we have sold over 20,000 copies in less than a year!). We also just completed Facebook Advertising for Dummies (Wiley) which is due to ship in November.

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APRIL 1, 2016

Mobile could well be the last true computing platform. Not smartphones, but mobile. Back then, the mobile carriers were not concerned with data. Back then, the mobile carriers were not concerned with data. There was no real mobile Web. Mobile is eating the world. The ecosystem - at the core - is mobile.

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The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. via Yahoo. 63% of Facebook Users Share Product Info on the Social Network With Friends, Family. Those who share product information on social media are most likely to do so on Facebook, according to a recently released study by 8thBridge. via Twopcharts.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 21, 2013

Whatever you think about Facebook, there’s one thing that’s hard to dispute: Mark Zuckerberg isn’t afraid to mix things up and try new strategies, and that’s especially true when it comes to advertising. Let’s take a quick look at six things you can do to get more out of your Facebook campaign right now.

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yMarketingMatters

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Tools like Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts monitor the web for you and alert you, by email or through RSS news feeds (see below), every time a new piece of information relating to your keywords is posted to the web. Bonus Tip: Before deciding on an aggregator, check out its mobile app. There are a number of good aggregators on the web.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 15, 2014

Google, Yahoo! Virtual reality seems to be one of the hottest trends: Google has Google Glass , Facebook bought Oculus VR (which makes the virtual reality gaming headset Oculus Rift), and Yahoo! Companies using performance models for growing channels, such as mobile and video, will soon be a common sight.

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yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

This is how you will turn your casual website or Facebook visitors into ongoing subscribers and fans. This is how you lead your casual website or Facebook visitor to take that call to action: click the link, sign up, register, tell a friend, become a fan! Make every person/client feel special. Trend #4 – Do Email Marketing!

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since Facebook unveiled its advertising options for businesses, the ads have grown substantially. Looking for the next big thing in Facebook advertising ? Looking for the next big thing in Facebook advertising ? Here are five Facebook advertising features you haven’t tried yet. Image credit: Revinate. Carousel ads.

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yMarketingMatters

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Tools like Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts monitor the web for you and alert you, by email or through RSS news feeds (see below), every time a new piece of information relating to your keywords is posted to the web. Bonus Tip: Before deciding on an aggregator, check out its mobile app.

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Social Media Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2023

Digital marketing techniques include the internet, mobile phone, social media, search engine optimization services, and various channels to reach clients. Some famous and well-known stages are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. We suggest this Facebook and Instagram Promotions online course to see some more.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Number of people using mobile phones around the world: 5.20 To put these numbers in perspective, more than two-thirds of the world now uses a mobile phone (67 percent), while almost 60 percent of all the people on Earth now use the internet. However, when it comes to social media, users clearly prefer mobile devices.

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MAY 21, 2013

Screens are mobile. I was familiar with the concept of three screens (television, computer and mobile), but four screens was something new. In the Newsweek article, Instagram Will Take Facebook Into the Mobile Age (April 16th, 2012), journalist Dan Lyons so appropriately wrote: "The Internet was all about websites.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 23, 2013

billion users worldwide, Facebook came in at number one. Earlier this year, Facebook said it “had 665 million active users each day on average in March, up 26 percent from a year earlier, and 751 million using Facebook from a mobile device each month, up 54 percent,” Yahoo News reported.

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The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. via Yahoo. Nielsen ranked Foursquare behind only Facebook (78 million) and Twitter (23 million) in terms of July mobile app users, according to AdWeek. The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Twitter: over 500 million users. via Twopcharts.

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

APRIL 15, 2022

Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers are Out. The following year, however, Google announced via a video that it doesn’t use social signs such as Facebook likes in its search rankings. billion by 2020, with Facebook owning about 50% of the market share. Format your content for mobile users using long-tail keywords.

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yMarketingMatters

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Here is a list of the most popular and effective social media channels: Facebook. billion people using the site each month, 665 million active users each day, and generates up to 645 million local business page views per week, Facebook has proved that its popularity amongst users is here to stay. There are 40 million users and 1.3

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Atom Thought

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What happens if Yahoo also launches a social platform around it’s email service integrated with flickr? This may be challenging, as the centre or core of communication has now shifted (from emails) to twitter and facebook (social platform). The scene is similar now- Social Networking scene is dominated by Facebook and Twitter.

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The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. via Yahoo. Related Stories 135 Million Users Are Active in Google+ Stream Social Networking Stats: 42% of Those With Foursquare App Are Active Users, #RLTM Scoreboard Millennials On Mobile, Social Media [Report]. Twitter: over 500 million users. via Twopcharts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple! Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach. Mobile Marketing – Frankly I think Social Media is just a warm up for Mobile Marketing.

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APRIL 22, 2012

If we learned anything about the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook , it is that the world of Social Media and mobile is colliding faster than we had ever expected. Heather Lutze has been a part of many digital revolutions (she used to work at Yahoo ) and is now the head of the Findability Formula. Enjoy the conversation.

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Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Now add the mobile element to this and what you will see is a continuous explosion of mobile apps, mobile marketing, and mobile sites all geared towards our escalating migration away from the desktop. And it makes sense. Lastly, our online social connections will continue to become more ubiquitous and less assumptive.

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 19, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Stay N' Alive

JULY 17, 2012

People keep saying Yahoo engineers and employees are going to feel less-likely to want to leave Yahoo now that + Marissa Mayer is the CEO. Here's why: Yahoo needs a complete reboot. Yahoo's now the underdog, which means they need to move fast. Yahoo, more than anything needs to focus. Yahoo mail?

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Danny WhatMough

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Digital ad revenues grow 15% to $23.1bn as mobile jumps 76%. Adobe has reported that Facebook organic reach is down 50% year-on-year. Snapchat launches its first advert – a 20-Second Exclusive Movie Trailer for ‘Ouija’ Facebook launches Rooms – a new take on chatrooms. Subscribe here. Image credit.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2013

From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. ” Facebook and Twitter are their “keynote” channels, with Tour Diaries a close third. Yahoo bought Tumblr last week, triggering a lot of talk about the blogging content site.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple! Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach. Mobile Marketing – Frankly I think Social Media is just a warm up for Mobile Marketing.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2017

Feel free to discuss your own social media wins and pain points in our Facebook community. Sprout Product Focus: Mobile App. With great mobile apps, of course. Add to Calendar: Outlook • Google • Yahoo • Outlook.com • Apple Calendar. Add to Calendar: Outlook • Google • Yahoo • Outlook.com • Apple Calendar.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. So how can news sites maximize their real-time search visibility? First, a quick look at how news content is currently being included in real-time search results.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Amazon in talks to buy TI mobile chip arm: paper - Reuters. "Rumour has it that Amazon wants to buy the mobile chip maker Texas Instruments ; the chips already power the Kindle Fire tablet, and speculation is that Amazon wants to move into the mobile phone space, to compete not just against the iPad but also the iPhone.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Rapid-quick load times and mobile responsiveness. The browser will now default to Yahoo search. Facebook graph search is powered by Bing. Entrepreneur Jonathan Long recently recommended that you should consider Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo in your SEO copywriting, and we tend to agree. An intuitive user experience.

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Stay N' Alive

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

On Twitter , Buzz , and on Scoble’s blog I was insisting there was a way to retrieve Email addresses via Facebook ‘s API. However, that aside, I’d like to put the Onus on Facebook this time. It’s time for Facebook to stick to their guns, fix their API, and make this stuff a little more open than before.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Digital Marketing professional and venture capitalist, Darren Herman , ran some quick numbers and here's what he uncovered: " the digital media ad spend (search, display, mobile, etc) is controlled by Google , Yahoo , AOL , Facebook , and Microsoft. advertising landscape. advertising network. cable network. chris anderson.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The common plight of smartphones and mobile devices is that they are shackles that handcuff an employee to their work. My iPhone will not beep, vibrate or blink when emails, tweets, or Facebook updates arrive. mobile device. mobile device. Twenty-fours hours a day and seven days a week. blackberry. business column.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

If you have accounts with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, or similar sites, it is advisable to tightly control how your personal information is disseminated to other individuals and organizations. Mobile Devices. Most of the ideas above apply to both computers and mobile devices.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. Then Facebook announced that Bing will exclusively power Web search on Facebook and serve up search ads.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

The carriers pocketed the money, the US is still miles behind other countries in terms of access to fast bandwidth, and carriers want to treat traffic that makes them money differently from traffic from, say, Google or Facebook. What You''re Worth To Facebook - The New Yorker. "Facebook had a great week. Facebook thinks so.

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