Tag Archives: social network

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 …

How do you identify the best social network for you? Does the one size fits all rule apply? Unfortunate as it is, the above rule doesn’t apply to the world of social networks. A social network that may sound perfect for business may indeed be a recipe for disaster for another business. Your competitors are all over the place so …

Yup! I’ve been thinking of blogging about the movie on Mark Zuckerberg and his journey to the first 1000,000 friends, ever since I saw the movie. A “MUST” watch cult movie, for sure! However, I was not so impressed by the Hollywood allegory and dramatization. I liked the warm, fuzzy promo film about Steve Case’ AOL – “You got mail” a …

If you’ve good intentions, it’s never too late to start afresh. I come across several successful online marketers who aspired to be social media icons but they feel they’ve missed the bus. The immense power of social media is now viewable to one and all – it’s already ranked as the most popular online activity in less than half a …

A recent Nielsen study indicates that Americans spend nearly a quarter of their Internet time on social networking sites. Social media has surpassed email in terms of online time and it’s just early days of social networking. Social media already accounts for a whopping 23 per cent of America’s online time versus a paltry 8.3 per cent on email. Facebook …

Diaspora may have started off as a project being developed by a group of four New York University programming students, many believe that it’s about to change the face of social media for good. What’s special about Diaspora and will it live up to all the media hype and attention? Let’s find out. What is Diaspora? Diaspora is privacy-aware, personally …

When it comes to social networking, you may be using Facebook to create deeper business relationships; Twitter for quick communication and news sharing; and LinkdIn for your overall professional networking. But might there be another level of social media linkage that can be well worthy of your time? To that end, here’s a short list of solid social networking sites …

Google announced this morning the official launch of its intended Twitter killer, Google Buzz, a Google approach to real time sharing of your content. According Google’s VP of Product Marketing, Bradley Horowitz, “It’s something exciting…”. Google Buzz is built right into Gmail. It will help surface your social graph by allowing you auto-follow the people you communicate with most via …

To mark its sixth birthday on Thursday, Facebook announced there will be 400 million people on Facebook this week. This number has more than double its user base of just 150 million active users barely a year ago. This level of growth has proven the year 2009 as its best year yet. What’s next for this social networking giant?