Once upon a time, Yahoo was my favorite company – great leadership, oozing investor confidence and innovative products built on cutting-edge technology. However, over the years, Yahoo’s fortunes have dwindled and the company is no longer reminiscent of its golden days. To make matters worse, Yahoo hasn’t been able to find an able leader who can turn its fortunes around. …

Content is king – while there is no denying that fact, it’s equally important to ensure that quality content gets the attention it deserves. Whether it’s blogs, social media profiles or websites, getting eyeballs to your content could be a challenging task. Hence, you must device creative ways to get eyeballs to your content. I’ve often come across several websites …

So you’ve finally decided your company needs to have a presence on Twitter. Congratulations! You’re joining a number of companies that have made that exact same decision and seen a lot of success because of it. However, it can be a harrowing experience using Twitter in the marketplace if you’re not educated and informed on what to do and what …

Every online business owner knows what it takes to run a successful business: not only popularity but increased revenue through high-quality traffic and conversions powered by optimum customer service. Optimizing the customer’s experience of your website is critical to the survival of any website owner’s business. If your business website is generating low income due to declining traffic, perform routine …

Starting last Friday, Facebook started updating all brand pages to use the ‘Timeline’ feature. To put things in perspective, Facebook Timeline has been available as an optional feature for a while now and earlier this month, I wrote about how to use Facebook Timeline for branding and conversion. None the less, if you have a brand page, there’s no more …

The brand and branding remain dear subjects to most businesses and entrepreneurs but they have continuously been misconstrued and implemented. This video helps you understand what a brand is and how to start branding fast. Firstly, What is branding? Branding gives every business the opportunity to really stand out by demonstrating its core values and expertise and offering it to others …

Now that you’ve decided to jump on the Twitter bandwagon to gain maximum benefits for your business, what do you do next? Getting an impressive Twitter profile and getting a high-quality targeted ‘following’ is only half the battle won. The other important half is to maintain and increase your Twitter following in order to grow your business. Nothing works better …

What makes social media so compelling and attractive for selling? It is a myth or just media hype? How should you sell on social media? Will aggressive selling work on social networks? These are some of the questions I’m often asked by marketers who are wary of how to sell online using social media. There’s no rocket science involved in …

Finding a happy middle ground when using Twitter can be tricky for any business. After all, there is a pretty thin line between success and failure when it comes to business in microblogging. It’s important to recognize that, through careful scrutiny, Twitter can teach very important business lessons. Thinking should always be your first step

Marketing success is measured by how well you locate your target market and how effectively you convert its members into customers. This measurement is just as relevant if you are using social media as a vehicle to let the world know about you and your business. Locate and follow your target audience: it’s like a “seek and destroy” mission in …

Last month, I wrote about various ways in which you can use Pinterest for your business. Since then, I’ve been flooded with requests to provide more insights into how businesses can use Pinterest specifically for Public Relations. If you don’t know what Pinterest is all about, I’d highly recommend that you read my earlier post first. In this post, I …

The social web offers tremendous marketing and customer relations opportunities for SMBs and major corporations. Your success with the social web greatly depends on having a solid understanding of social media fundamentals. Below is an infographic cheat sheet to help your business re-establish its social media campaign. Source: Flowtown

At the end of the day it does not matter whether you are on main street or Wall Street or cruising down easy street, the fact of the matter is with these Occupy Wall Street protests is that there lies a problem – the problem of a burgeoning income gap between executives and employees, a corruption of banking and loans …

Here’s an infographic which highlights nine entrepreneurs who made it big pretty early. Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 27 has an estimated personal net worth of $17.5 billion, tops the list, followed by Groupon founder Andrew Mason ($1.3 billion) and Firefox founder Blake Ross ($150 million). Click image to enlarge Source: H&R Block

Marketing is the engine that runs any successful business and organization. Last week, we started a series of posts to focus on the basics of social media and digital marketing. Today, we answer the broader question of what is marketing. Though this phrase has been around since several decades, it’s ironically the most commonly misunderstood term in the business world. …