7 Tips for running Facebook Competitions
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It can be very useful run competitions on Facebook but there’s a few things not to do. 1. Don’t run it on your wall You should read the Facebook Competition guidelines and you’ll see that you are not allowed to run the competition from the wall. You need to run it as an application which [...]
Facebook Edge Rank Versus Google Page rank
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If you have been involved in Search Engine Optimisation you probably would have heard of Google Page Rank. Google ranks every page on the web from 0 to 10. If you create a new website you’ll start off with a page rank of 0 so Google will pretty much ignore you. When you earn some [...]
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 …
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 [...]
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. [...]
Tippex Youtube Commercial – Innovative and Fun
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The recent Tippex youtube commercial where you are displayed a video of a man about to shoot a bear and then you are given the option of selecting what should happen has had over 6 million views already. It’s a very innovative approach to getting a message out about your brand. Try …
Changes to LinkedIn, Launching a Successful Blog, and More
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Hi All, here’s our weekly selection of great articles, tips etc that we have come across this week. 1. Using News releases to boost your seo. A great article from Hubspot. 2. Creative professionals can now display their portfolios on Linkedin. Update from LinkedIn blog. Handy features for people like web designers who can now [...]
Rank Number 1 in Facebook Search, Hubspot Lead Generation, and More
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The following outlines the most useful information I came across this week. It’s a mix of tips, articles, information on products and anything else that will add value and save some of your time. It’s hard to filter out all the good stuff! 1. Facebook Friends phone numbers - If you go to – Facebook [...]
Will Facebook’s search engine compete with Google?
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I read a very interesting article on All facebook about pages from the internet now starting to appear in searches within Facebook. The example given is displayed below: You can see from the image displayed the second result of a page search is a page not on Facebook. It was a page that is on [...]
Michael Birch, founder of Bebo – National Science Gallery Talk
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Michael Birch was in Dublin yesterday as part of Dublin Web Summit and prior to this event he spoke in the Science Gallery. Michael was in the news recently because he was founder of the social network bebo, sold it to AOL for US$850 million and last week AOL sold it on for a …