Posts tagged social networks
14 Ways To Promote Your Company Or Brands Online - Conclusion
Jun 21st
Top Web Promotion Methods #8 – #14:
8. Bookmarking/Tagging
Social bookmarking has become a popular method to share, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web resources. Some of the most popular social bookmarking websites: Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Fark, Mixx, MyBlogLog, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, Slashdot.org, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, and Buzz.
9. Discussion Forums and Boards
Participating in online forums can be a great way to market your products and services, and interact with your audience and other professionals. Engaging your audience in a niche forum can bring high value to your website and brand, too.
10. Content Aggregation
Content aggregation offers you the chance to bring all news and feeds around your online community accounts in one place. Some would argue this is the future of social media. Emerging content aggregation websites are: Bloglines, FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Lijit.
11. Brand Monitoring
Social networks are also offering a variety of tools that can help businesses understand the positioning of their brand. Popular examples are: Buzzlogic, Radian6, and ReputationDefender.
12. Ratings and Review Sites
Another great way to find out where your website stands, or how your brand is perceived by others, is through ratings and reviews. The two most popular are Yelp and GetSatisfaction.
13. Widgets
For those trying to promote their own brands, they can More >
The Biggest Social Media Platforms and News Sites
May 18th
Comprehensive list of the Top 100 social networking or bookmarking sites are identified, and ranked in order of popularity. Regular updates to the ranking system, which is based on the Alexa. Also shows Pagerank and identifies the category of the site.
Finding Your Customers On Social Networks
May 17th
For most organizations, the conversation of “why” or “should” we do social media has shifted to “where” and “how” do we do social media?
A major component of answering those questions effectively is understanding in which social platforms your customers are already connected and concentrated, because there really is no benefit in beating your customers or clients to the punch this time! Companies need to follow…not lead, their customers across the social networking web.
Maybe your boss thinks none of your customers are on Facebook, but you think they are. How can you prove it?
Or maybe you’re a small-business owner, and know many of your clients or customers are socially connected, but aren’t sure how to find them?
Here are 4 ways to find out where your customers are in social media:
#1: Hire Someone to Tell You
Rapleaf and Flowtown are just two services that reside in the emerging field called “social anthropology”. You provide them with the list of all your customer email addresseses, and they figure out who among your customers is on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media networks; their likes, and other important details.
#2: Analyze Email Behavior
Have you added links to all your social accounts in your emails? Have you added More >

