Social Search – The Train is coming…
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Over the last few days Google made a significant change to it’s search algorithm. If you are now logged in to Google and perform a search it will give a strong weighting in search results to content provided by or linked to by your friends in your social graph. This could be …
Social Networks – Show me the micro money
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As mentioned in my previous article social commerce is a big growth area this year in social networks but there are transactions for products that are typically of higher value and then there are micro transactions. Micro transactions are typically for very small amounts of money and the issue with these is that payment providers [...]
Social Commerce – How can we make money from social media?
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Last year a lot of companies jumped on the social media train but failed to see a return in investment. This year more and more companies will start to really look at how they can make money through social media and you’ll hear the term social commerce mentioned a lot. This is really about a [...]
Building Social Products, Developing Social Strategy and More
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Hi All, Here’s the best from last week. 1. Social commerce what’s fueling it’s growth How we shop on the web is radically changing and this has huge implications for anyone that sells products or services online. Interesting article which outlines why this is big business, well worth a read. 2. The role of the [...]
Findings from Google’s Search Engine, Facebook’s Strategy and More
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Hi All, Google Zeithgeist Very interesting summary from Google on what was most searched for in 2010, it has the fastest rising queries in sport, food and much more. Well worth a look. Facebooks’s grand plans for the future An interesting article which shows how the founder of Facebook thinks that Facebook will be responsible [...]
Guides to SEO Optimization, Social Media Readiness and More
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Hello all, here’s some articles to warm you up this week: 1. LinkedIn Share button LinkedIn have released new share buttons which you can put on your website and let visitors share out content on LinkedIn. Very useful if you want to promote your content through LinkedIn. 2. 3 Pillars of Social Media readiness The [...]
How to get views on Youtube, get more Facebook fans, and more
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G’day, Here’s the top articles this week: YouTube Cheat Sheet An interesting article on how you can optimise your content on Youtube to appear on searches. As YouTube is the 3rd biggest search engine in the world, it’s well worth taking a bit of time to optimise your content on it. Using Youtube Analytics for [...]
LinkedIn and Facebook Updates, the Value of a Like and More
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Good morning all. What is new this week… 1. LinkedIn expand company pages We see how popular business pages are in Facebook and LinkedIn were always going to follow suit. At the moment their business page functionality is very basic, however, they have just made changes which allow you to start displaying your products, services [...]
Your SEO Report Card, Amazon and Facebook Team Up, and More
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Hi All, I hope your week gets off to a flying start. Here’s some articles/tips to kick it off: Amazon Offers gift cards through facebook. Social gifting is going to be big. If you now link your Amazon and Facebook account you can purchase a gift for a friend on Facebook and then schedule when [...]
Kerwin Rae – Marketing Secrets Exposed
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There’s an interesting event coming up in Dublin to-morrow run by Ian Lawlor in Horizon Speakers. It’s a guy with a great reputation on Marketing called Kerwin Rae. There’s still tickets left and there’s a discounted deal for two. Anyway, here are the details: It’s on 8.30 to 4.30 in the Berkeley court in Dublin. [...]



