The Social Media Marketing Blog: Social Network Shorthand

Have you ever needed a quick analogy in a business or social situation that helps you explain what a social network concept is? I know I have – many times.
One of the most common questions I get is “What’s Twitter?” And I’ve witnessed many experienced people explaining Twitter in more than a few sentences. I [...]

5 Ways To Find & Acquire Customers On Twitter

Emerging platforms create new opportunities to find and acquire the lifeblood of your business—customers. Twitter is the breakthrough product of 2009 because of its unique ability to create lightweight and fluid conversation—in near real time—around just about any topic.
Let’s look at 5 ways you can leverage the platform to build your business:
1. Twitter Search (The [...]

5 Steps to Ranking #1 on Twitter for a Keyword

Twitter is HOT, HOT, HOT! It is now a powerful and popular online marketing tool that everyone should be taking advantage of. We are going to be doing a two part series on twitter and the first part will cover details regarding optimizing your profile for SEO. It has been noted that twitter is ranking [...]

Twitter Changes Prioritize Search, Trends And Featured Users

San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has added a more powerful and prominent search function to its popular free micro-blogging service, along with new features for tracking the service’s most-discussed trends and users, in an expansion of a limited test begun last month. On Friday Twitter began rolling out the new features, contained in a [...]

The Life and Times of A Twitter Link

Twitter is a fast moving world and what you say can easily be missed by your loyal followers.  But just how fast moving are your followers’ twitter streams?  Thanks to the URL shortening service bit.ly we now know the answer is just a brief five minutes.

We asked the author of @thewholeworld, who has about 2,500 [...]

Gosh Napoleon Dynamite’s Guide To Social Networking

If you’re not an idiot, you’ve seen the movie. Now, with even bigger hair and sweeter dance moves, five hints on social networking from the master, Napoleon Dynamite!

1. Give, like, creative and real compliments.
“You have a sweet bike. And you’re really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you’re like the only guy at school [...]

YouTube Adds Social Features to API

You can already import activities from YouTube into your activity stream on social networks like Facebook and FriendFeed, but now the video sharing site is expanding its API to give all developers access to this data.
The expanded API includes YouTube activities like favoriting, uploading, and commenting on videos, which the company hopes will lead to [...]

5 Reasons You Should Link Out to Others From Your Website

There’s a lot of debate in the web world, particularly in the SEO & marketing departments of mid-size and larger organizations, about whether or not to link out to other websites from their own. People are scared for a number of reasons; they worry that linking out could:

Harm their reputation
Damage their search engine rankings
Cost them [...]

What If A Client Doesn’t Like Link Building?

What if you have a client who wants SEO but simply does not want you to do any link building even though, over and over and over, you’ve told this sweet client that link building is a key component of doing well online? I’m not talking about the outright purchasing of links here either. I’m [...]

Debunking Six Social Media Myths

Using social media to market your business is a good idea. Just don’t plan on getting your whiz-kid nephew to do it for free
Source: BusinessWeek
For companies, resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Your competitors are already there. Your customers have been there for a long [...]