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Business Blogging as Marketing Tools
By Tony Tran on March 9th, 2010 | 9 Comments

Business blogging is all about promoting your business on the internet platform. Business blogging is gaining importance with every passing day because now, general public are interested in buying different product from the online resource. This change in the behavior of end users is diverting the mind of every small and big business to consider business blogging in order to give more exposure to their business over the internet. At the very beginning, blogging was consider as sharing your thoughts and views on different aspects with people over the internet. A blog provided the people with a ...
How Google Buzz is Different from Facebook & Twi...
By Tony Tran on March 9th, 2010 | 20 Comments

Social media market is all set to become more competitive. With already cut-throat competition, surviving more for Facebook and Twitter would demand quite a bit of innovation and fierce marketing strategies. Google Buzz is in a better position to capitalize from its Gmail user base. Since Google Buzz is accessible through a link in Gmail, it makes it all the more effective social media tool. Google Buzz is a unique social platform in itself that promises more functionalities than Facebook and Twitter. Let us take a closer look on some of the unique features of Google Buzz: Unlike Twitter, Goog...
Online Personal Branding Tips to Build Now
By Tony Tran on March 8th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Online personal branding and marketing helps not only your company search engine optimization, but also your own personal search engine optimization efforts. Whether you are trying to find a job or marketing your company, the bottom line is you should strive to build your name as a leader in your industry. The following are some low cost personal online branding resources to consider:1. LinkedIn If you have a LinkedIn account but havent touched it in many years now might be the time to get in there and really beef it up. If you dont have one make the effort and launch one. Make it...
39 Free/Low-Cost Tools for Marketing Your Small Busin...
By Tony Tran on March 8th, 2010 | 6 Comments

Thousands of free online marketing tools clamor for attention, with new ones popping up every week it seems. You know you should be doing more to reach out to your customers, but just researching which tools to use can be a vast time investment, even if they dont require a big financial outlay. Below is a compiled a list of the most popular (or most useful) low-cost or free small business marketing tools. You might be using some of them already, but youre sure to find a couple that will round out your small business marketing toolkit nicely. And, if youre just starting out marketing a ...
Site Speed Tips for When Google Uses That as a Rankin...
By Tony Tran on March 8th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Last year, Google’s Matt Cutts dropped the bomb (to put it in the exaggerated tone that many took the news in), that Google was considering taking site speed into consideration as one of many potential ranking factors for search results. This of course freaked a lot of people out, but as Matt and Google as a whole has maintained, this would not trump relevance. It would be taken more into consideration when there are two sites of relatively equal relevance, but one site loads faster and delivers a better user experience. Matt reiterated this point in an interview we did with him...
What if Facebook Added a “Blog” Tab ?
By Tony Tran on February 23rd, 2010 | 21 Comments

Facebook wants to keep users on Facebook. So far, they are doing a pretty good job of that. More and more people are spending more of their online time on Facebook, not to mention, spending more time connected to the web in general (at least partially due to rising use of smartphones). How much time do you spend on Facebook in a month?A week? Let us know. Facebook recently made it a point to show users how to use the social network to keep up with the news. Users can simply become fans of their favorite news organizations’ pages (feel free to include ours in your mix), and group...
6 Things You Need To Make A Living Online
By Tony Tran on February 23rd, 2010 | 6 Comments

Everywhere you look on the internet, and every day in your inbox, you will find marketers and ‘Gurus’ offering you the latest ‘sure-fire’ way to make sackloads of money for doing very little – or even nothing! But before you reach for your credit card yet again just take a moment and ask yourself this: Do you realistically think that you could set up any ‘normal’ business and make it successful just by buying a $99 e-book and then sitting back while the money floods in? No, I thought not. You will very soon be on the road to financial ruin if you...
Consider These 8 Sources of Web Traffic
By Tony Tran on February 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

Over the last year or two, I’ve written a number of articles about different ways to get traffic to your website. Here is something of a compilation of these concepts. Obviously search engine optimization is an important component, but I’m going to leave that out here.Facebook Some sites have been known to get even more traffic from Facebook than they get from Google. I suggest setting up a Facebook page. Compete recently found that demographics of Facebook users strongly resemble demographics of Internet users in general. Essentially, that means that people of all kinds...
Using Facebook Because That’s Where People Are
By Tony Tran on February 21st, 2010 | 5 Comments

In previous article, I asked, “Do you need Facebook for Business ?” Whether your answer to this is yes or no, there are a variety of reasons why Facebook can be a useful part of your mix. I was looking at an article I wrote about a year ago about driving traffic to your site with Facebook, and I noticed a comment left last month that tells an interesting story. Allow me to pull an excerpt from the comment. A consultant named Heather O’Sullivan Canney talked about the reasons she created a Facebook page and why it has helped her business: As a result (IMO) of creating ...
Do you need Facebook to Success in Business
By Tony Tran on February 20th, 2010 | 4 Comments

According to data from Compete, Facebook has surpassed Google as the top source of traffic for major portals like Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. In December, 15% of traffic to these sites came from Facebook and MySpace, 13% from just Facebook. They say it is among the top traffic drivers for other types of sites as well. By Facebook’s most recent stat counts, the site has over 400 million active users. Half of them log on each day. Over 35 million upate their status each day, with over 60 million status updates posted each day. Over 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, bl...