As Facebook goes public, who owned the social networking giant before IPO? To help you understand and dissect Facebook before IPO, here’s an interesting infographic from Kissmetrics to help you gain deeper insight into the transfer of shares and many other figures surrounding their recent performance as the social networking king.

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 …

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 …

The much-anticipated Facebook Page Timeline is now available for business users. I personally believe it’s a welcome change as it provides more flexibility for businesses to structure their page and interact with their audience – thereby making it a valuable branding and conversation tool. In this post, I present you 7 tips on how to use the Facebook Page timeline …

Even as the dust is yet to settle on Facebook’s much-hyped IPO, it’s taught the world a much-needed business lesson – It doesn’t matter whether you are a small business or the world’s most popular social network, you need to make revenue out of your mobile user base. While Facebook has nearly 425 million mobile users, it’s not making any …

Facebook on Wednesday filed for its Initial Public Offering with the intention to raise around $5 billion. This is expected to increase due to great demand for a piece of the social networking giant. This IPO is considered the largest out of Silicon Valley, topping Google’s $2 billion IPO in 2004. Here’s a prior infographic I find interesting: Source: Accounting …

In year 2011, Facebook further solidified its position as the world’s most widely used social network among users across the board. The question is, are we obsessed with Facebook? The infographic below helps us answer that intriguing question. Source: Online Schools

In year 2011, Facebook further solidified its position as the world’s most widely used social network among business and enterprise users. Whether it’s the launch of Facebook for Business, the Facebook Pages for Business and Brands or business-friendly profile changes, the world’s leading social network did most things right to please the business fraternity. Though Facebook Pages were well received …

Have you ever wondered why Facebook is the world’s most popular social network? Is it all about the user experience? Or is it because Facebook is the undisputed choice for businesses when it comes to social media? Or perhaps because Facebook did most things right while others got it wrong? Well, I strongly believe that Facebook’s biggest strength is its’ …

Even as the public outrage over the newly introduced ‘frictionless’ sharing refuses to die down, Facebook is introducing another major change – the world’s leading social network is now listing sponsored stories in their recently introduced News Ticker. While it may be a blessing in disguise for advertisers, Facebook users have every reason to be worried if this be the first …

While it’s true that a social network is all about collaboration and sharing, it still needs to comply with the golden rule that states excess of anything is bad. Till date, Facebook has served as a modern age example of how to get sharing right in a social network – just the right amount of information, presented in an easy …

There’s no doubt that Google+ started on the right note – it came, saw and conquered the hearts of people all over the world. It had the wow factor and it hit other social media networks where it hurts the most. And then Facebook hit back in style, launching one innovative feature after the other. Google+ responded back by opening …

When Google+ launched, it was widely projected as the next big Facebook Killer. While that didn’t happen, Google did a remarkable job of exploiting Facebook’s weaknesses with innovative features such as Circles and Hangouts. The world’s leading social network eventually hit back in style and as time passed, the initial euphoria over Google+ begin to fade away. All this while, …

Critics and analysts often love to pit one social media network against the other – be it Facebook vs. Twitter, Facebook vs. Google+, Twitter vs. Google+ or Facebook vs. LinkedIn – we’ve seen nearly all permutations of comparisons over the last couple of years. In fact, the comparisons and the so-called battle between Facebook and LinkedIn has been a well-documented …

First things first, I’m no Facebook worshipper. In fact, I use all leading social networks for definitive needs. I use LinkedIn as a professional networking and hiring tool, Twitter as a means for marketing, YouTube for video promotions and Facebook for advertising and customer service. And I’ve to admit that I’ve liked whatever I’ve seen of Google+ so far as …