The explosion of social media sites in the last few years has changed the way consumers learn about businesses. Let’s face it – today if your business is not a member of Facebook or Yelp, it is likely to be overlooked by many potential consumers. And if your business is without a website, you might as well be non-existent.
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*The following is a guest post by Stacey Cavanagh, an online marketer with Tecmark SEO Manchester.
Whatever our reasons for blogging – whether it be for hobby, to give advice, or a way of earning an income – we all need one core thing in order for our blogs to succeed: readers. Without them, what’s the point? Twitter is a potential source of massive numbers of new readers, based on them seeing links to your blog from other members. But how can you get people to Tweet
links to your blog? Quite simply, it all comes down to whether or not your readers feel that your content is worth passing on to people they know. Creating a Tweet-worthy post means you essentially have to give something to your readers, whether this is new information, a good old fashioned laugh, or a talking point. Here are a few hints on creating a blog post that’s worth Tweeting.
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Peter Cashmore of Mashable.com reports that a spoof email is circulating around the Internet inviting users to connect via Twitter. Instead of containing a link, the spoof asks users to download a zip file which contains a nasty email harvesting worm.
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Those vacation or other personal photos that you upload to Flickr, SmugMug, Picasa or other picture repository sites may not remain private. England's Guardian newspaper reports on its web site that a Missouri family's Christmas card photo ended up in a grocery store ad for a company in Prague, Czech Republic. A family friend of Jeff and Danielle Smith spotted the photo on a billboard advertising the grocery store's home delivery service.
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If you use the Internet for business, you have no doubt come across numerous social networking sites. There are a mind numbing number of these sites, all of which help you share what you are doing with the world, and to establish relationships with others who share common interests. Examples of these social networking sites include:
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