Social Media

30 Mar

The “Big Hairy Spider” Facebook Update Makes Merchants Prey to New Fees

Social Media

Facebook is a wickedly wide web of news, people, businesses, and all sorts of other tchotchkes that inevitably entangle with user streams and ad nets. But make no mistake, Facebook is not a user generated “web” like the world wide variety. It was spun by a host of spiders loyal to Facebook’s profit and loss [...]

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23 Mar

Case Study: LinkedIn Groups Drives Ten Times More Traffic Than Facebook

Social Media

Remember the proverb that “statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do”…all true, without context. Here’s the back story. LearnChineseBusiness.com started posting informational “news” blogs in October of 2011 on zero budget and has done pretty well using keywords and gaining traction with organic traffic and back links. And because there’s so much hype around being on [...]

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22 Mar

Simply Youth Ministry Reveals Secret Social Media Handshake

Social Media

Justin Boling, who manages Simply Youth Ministry‘s social media campaign (boasting 12,000+ FB fans!) recently let us in on their secret handshake, or formula for success if you will. For those who know Justin, no it’s not about him believing that skinny jeans are cool and lucky, like some football players do with their special [...]

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8 Mar

Facebook to Push Page Redesign on March 30, 2012

Social Media

If you are absolutely in love with the way things look and work on your Facebook Page now, try to detach. Changes are coming; don’t they always–especially on Facebook. This time, as you can see in the screen shot of FastPivot’s FB page (see the original for comparison) to the right, the new redesign will [...]

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29 Feb

Who Wants to Be First to Add a “LinkedIn” Follow Button to Their Yahoo! Store?

Social Media

According to LinkedIn’s February 27th, 2012 blog post, the long overdue “LinkedIn follow button” is out. Facebook, Twitter, and even Pininterest all came out with their follow buttons fairly quickly, but for some reason LinkedIn didn’t. Maybe they thought the “share on LinkedIn” button was enough. But many internet users feel that level of engagement [...]

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