Monthly Archives: December 2010

How your customer service departments can make use of Facebook and Twitter amid the snow chaos hitting the UK

Snow and ice is wreaking havoc across the UK. And it’s showing little sign of letting up. ‘Snow’ is one of the most popular words being touted around Facebook status updates and Twitter feeds and has been for the last

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Online community: what motivates people to work for street teams and what can we learn from them

Street teams popped up as long ago as 2001. They were there long before Facebook. But they’re still relevant now and many bands are still using them to release albums and keep momentum going when they might not otherwise be

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Why you should never sell to your friends on Facebook, even at Christmas

You think Christmas is sacred? It isn’t nearly as sacred to people as their personal Facebook profiles. Seriously. So, unless people are under no illusion that the reason they’re connecting with you is to buy stuff from you, then never

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How to take great photos for your website, with Shropshire’s Ella’s Kitchen Company

Images. They’re what sell your content on your web properties. Get them right and they can turn prospects into paying customers. Katherina of Shopshire based Ella’s Kitchen Company, knows this. Here she shares her top tips for making sure your

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How to tell if your blogs are popular on the social web

You put a lot of effort into crafting your blogs. You write them and you hope people read them. Heck, maybe they might even be prompted to engage with you having read them. That’s most bloggers’ goal after all. If

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Will The Numbers Game be the next craze to hit Facebook?

OK, we had the cartoon character Facebook game and that was fun. But in the fickle world of social media, the next big thing is always lirking. Could that be the Numbers Game? It certainly seems to have gathered some

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How news of John Lennon’s death would have been different in 2010, an imagined view in a world of citizen journalism and social media

In 1980, John Lennon was shot dead my Mark Chapman, a crazed fan, in New York City. An ABC news reporter happened to be receiving treatment for a minor road accident the moment his lifeless body was brought into the

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6 time saving tools to simplify your Twitter marketing activity

Twitter’s a lot of fun and fast becoming an essential business tool for any forward thinking company. So you want to find ways to make things quicker, raise your game, follow more efficiently, engage more effectively and generally make the

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What we can learn from the cartoon character craze sweeping Facebook

In case you’ve not noticed, your login on Facebook has been decidedly more colourful these past few days. That’s because somebody came up with the novel idea of getting everyone to change their Facebook pictures to their favourite cartoon character.

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How to get your digital marketing right in 2011, simple strategies, acquisition tactics and a free guide

2011 is going to be all about digital. And we can help you with all of it. If you don’t know where to start or what might be right for you and your business, that’s OK. Just use our checklist

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