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How to Get Retweeted
If you create a Twitter account for your company or for a product you produce, the goal is to get as many followers as you can so that you increase brand awareness and have a built-in audience to whom you can advertise and promote yourself – in moderation, of course, or you’ll risk losing all of your followers. But the Twitterverse can be a tough...
8 Things Every Website Should Have in 2012
Over 60 percent of small businesses still don’t have a website, but hopefully you’re in the 40 percent that do have one, because 2012 is a few weeks away, and it’s a little 1997 to not have a website by now. If you already have a website, or are finally going to arrive in the 21st century, then here are eight things that your website should...
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World Map of the Top Twitter Accounts
Richard Florida posted this interesting map in The Atlantic. It shows where the Twitterati (top 500 most followed tweeters) live: “The United States accounts for a whopping 358 of the twitter 500, nearly three-quarters of the total, with 780 million followers worldwide. The second place nation is Brazil, with 42 (8.4 percent) of the world’s...
Top 6 Twitter Best Practices
When setting up your social networks, you can simply “set it and forget it,” but your following will grow faster and you’ll see more of a return on them if you put extra effort into the process. Don’t get discouraged if it is slow-going at first. Growth on social networks is often exponential. You start out with a handful of followers who help...
Investing in your Tweets – How Twitter is Changing the Trading Industry
Stocks and Commodities traders are joining a growing group of people who have become big fans of Twitter. Early adopters of Twitter started using the micro blogging tool to track trade sensitive information. Industry professionals say that the use of Twitter is growing rapidly throughout financial markets, and being used by traders as a platform for...
Seeing the Big Picture: A Social Marketing Perspective
The social Web offers a unique opportunity for providing useful information, building relationships, increasing visibility and engaging businesses with consumers. Since social media marketing is still very much evolving, there’s no better time than now for you to get your feet wet. The key word to remember is “social,” so get...







