How peer influence is much more effective than relying on well-known influencers for business marketing Word-of-mouth marketing is still the most popular and useful way to successfully market your business. Many entrepreneurs rely on influencers with a huge social clout to post professional or fun tweets and status updates about their merchandise. These people usually…
How reviews can entice customers to spend their hard-earned money on your products and services You’re browsing the Net for restaurants to dine in with your date. As you look at the websites of several well-known dining establishments, you’re more confused than ever which to choose. All of them have a tasty-sounding menu with pictures…
You have a small business and you’re interested in widening your reach and attracting more customers. Study what you’re getting into before launching and investing on a sales or marketing campaign. If you’re not equipped with enough knowledge, your strategy might backfire on you and turn you against trying for it again. This is the…
How to turn your complaining customers to loyal customers for life When we see a customer’s thunderous expression and aggressive stance, we turn our heads from left to right looking for a way out. Since dealing with complaints can be stressful, some businesspersons avoid answering a complaint and hoping it will go away. That approach,…
Make Your Page Interactive with Non-Marketing Apps Posting articles about business, marketing and other serious topics all the time can actually pose harm for your page. Many social media users have a low boredom threshold, which can be triggered by continuous updates of your favorite topics. A page that engages other users’ interests attracts more…
How users must be critical of what they read before they believe it. With social media, there’s a 50/50 percent chance of false news appearing on your feed. Well-known people sometimes turn up dead on the web when they’re alive and well in reality. Due to the shock factor this type of news generates, users…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media as a News Channel Social media is a vessel of information for everybody. It is updated everyday with new data from regular users who drop in to share news they’ve heard, events they’ve experienced and, most especially, scoops on the latest hot topics. Users passionate about social media strive…
Ok this is a simple and entertaing video animation that looks at parallel parking and has a surprise ending. Ham. But after watching it and having a chuckle check out the incredible detail in the animation modeling. There is so much stuff going on for this simple idea. I use this to illustrate that great work can make a simple idea even…
Why Twitter Dominates in Breaking the News January 12, 2010 – A massive, strong earthquake devastates Haiti. The rest of the world moved on, busy with their own lives. Seven minutes after the quake, Frederic Dupoux (@FredoDupoux) tweets, “Oh shiet [sic] heavy earthquake right now! In Haiti!” The world suffered a quaking realization due to…
How Social Media Became Popular in News Dissemination If we examine the picture above, we can see how social media is surpassing other traditional news mediums like radios and magazines. Although TV news is still the strongest contender, social media is now waiting to overthrow newspapers from its current second-place position. And almost everyone, especially…