How to Get a Blog Started

Everyone always ask me this same Question, How to Get a Blog Started well below is everything you need to know, just a little bit of enthusiasm and creativity and you are good to go. Just give your thoughts below:

Blogging gives you the power to express your independent views and opinions, or write on just about anything that you are passionate about, and reach out to the Internet community at large.
But more importantly, it is a great way to make money online.
If you are new to making money online, then getting started might be a bit intimidating. Luckily, the following tips can help you out:

Decide what your blog is going to be about

You are free to blog randomly on anything and everything, but that may not be the best way to succeed in the blogging world. Choose a subject that appeals very strongly to you, and which can captivate the attention of your readers or potential ones. You will be able to add value to your blog, and create a niche for yourself in a crowded world of blogging by focusing on a specific theme that establishes a clear identity for your blog. You can read more about picking a niche here.

Choose free or paid hosting

You will have the choice to host the blog yourself for a small annual fee, or opt for a free blogging service such as blogspot.com. You need to decide which option suits you better, and start your blog accordingly. With a free blogging service, you do not have to pay a penny, but you will not obtain an exclusive domain name. It will always include the name of the hosting service.
Secondly, if later you choose to shift to your own private domain, you will not be able to take your readers with you. You will always be dependent on the host service, and will have no control over your site. Paid hosting at a cheap price is possible with several service providers. You can acquire free blog software from reliable sources such as WordPress, which will give you the flexibility and the room to grow. You can acquire your own domain name for a small annual fee, and develop your own blog with an exclusive identity and total control over your website.

Decide on a blog design and layout

The value of your blog content will be enhanced if you can showcase it attractively with a good design. The free blog hosting service providers will offer you a gallery of ready templates to choose from. You can pick your own layout and color scheme for your blog. Try to personalize your blog design to give it a unique identity, so that readers can differentiate it from other blogs quickly.
You can also add images and a profile of yourself. This will help because most readers are curious to know about the blogger, so you can provide them a glimpse of your life. Add other blogging freebies such as blog chalks, buttons, tagboards, imoods, guest book, guest maps, and comment box for readers’ feedback. These will allow for better reader engagement levels at your blog.

Promote your blog

Visit other blogs and interact with other bloggers for mutual promotion of blogs. Create a network of like-minded bloggers to build a larger collective readership. Send the URL of your blog to your friends and acquaintances. Promote your blog over social media networking sites. If you write a blog post on a current issue, it can circulate fast over social media sites, giving wide exposure to your blog. Your blog’s success does correlate with your social media skills. Do not become discouraged if you do not see interesting results if you are just starting out in this arena.

So my Dream came true by NETFLIX!

I just Can't believed that they actually read my blog, Did they? Yes I told them "click on this link to see previous post" Why make another site if the one you have is just working! Guess that the McFries and the Mcburger Idea sounded pretty cool!

Dear Lourdes, It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. This means no change: one website, one account, one password…in other words, no Qwikster. While the July price change was necessary, we are now done with price changes. We're constantly improving our streaming selection. We've recently added hundreds of movies from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, MGM and Miramax. Plus, in the last couple of weeks alone, we've added over 3,500 TV episodes from ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, History, and PBS. We value you as a member, and we are committed to making Netflix the best place to get your movies & TV shows. Respectfully, The Netflix Team

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Facebook New changes List

So Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg in F8 introduced the lates changes on Facebook the new design and some other changes. These are some of the most profound changes seen on Facebook since its inception. So many changes, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track. I'm really overwhelm.

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Facebook Changes Again: Everything You Need To Know

about 17 hours ago by Chris Taylor 105

As we predicted, Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at the f8 conference in San Francisco Thursday introduced some of the most profound changes seen on Facebook since its inception. So many changes, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track. So here’s a handy-dandy guide.

2. You don’t have to just Like something — now you can [verb] any [noun].

1. You’re going to get a Timeline — a scrapbook of your life.

3. Facebook apps need only ask permission once to share stories on your behalf.

4. All “lightweight” information is going to the Ticker.

5. You can watch TV and movies, listen to music, and read news with your friends — all within Facebook.

6. Facebook has more users and more engagement than ever. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Facebook Changes for Marketers

Changes are a big part of Social Media for the past 5 years. I find myself sometimes saying "I can't keep up with all this changes". Is a real headache the fact that once you seem to manage one thing for the past 30 days in the next 10 days you are going to get a surprise that it has changed. As Arnold Bennett said "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." I do second that. But changes are always good for the future and keeping up it was we have in order to be part of the movement.

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What Facebook’s Changes Mean for Marketers

about 15 hours ago by Todd Wasserman 25

One big change is that Facebook has added a control in the top right of each story that users can check to unmark a top story. Facebook will use that information over time to automatically edit the feeds. Since users now have more control over their news feeds, brands with boring or irrelevant updates will have lower visibility. (They will still show up in the Ticker, however.)

How to do that? David Berkowitz, senior director of emerging media and innovation for 360i, says Facebook will now be about branding actions. “Before on Facebook it was about getting people to ‘Like’ the brand,” he says. “Now, it’s about getting people to take social actions enabled by that brand.” For example, if a consumer posts an update about a run they just took, that’s a prime opportunity for Nike. “If your run is powered by Nike, you might still wear Adidas,” says Berkowitz, “but Adidas will have to find something else that’s social about its brand to become part of your story.”

The change will require new thinking from marketers who had merely tried to accumulate as many fans and “Likes” as possible. Jenna Lebel,managing director of strategy at Likeable Media, says the “Like” is “a little less relevant now,” and that marketers will have to work harder to earn their place in news feeds. “Your content is going to need to be absolutely amazing,” she says. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Difference Between thing a great comparison site

I just found this website really cool! I can now be more to the point on conversation and I can actually know the difference between things.



DifferenceBetween is a free to use website that details the differences between two seemingly similar things. Two great things to know for example: advertising and publicity, and the terms ‘infectious’ and ‘contagious.’ You can browse the site for its articles, search specifically by name, or browse the site’s categories that include everything from business to technology.

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Difference Between Cold and Flu (8) • Cold vs Flu Both the flu and the common cold are respiratory illnesses but caused by different pathogens. These two types of illnesses have symptoms that are similar to flu. Therefore it is difficult to differentiate between them just by looking at the symptoms alone. The flu illness is worse than the common cold with [...] Read more at www.differencebetween.net

Difference Between RAM and ROM (12)

RAM vs ROM RAM (Random Access Memory) and ROM (Read Only Memory) are two very old technologies that were created in the very early days of computing. Despite that, they are still used nowadays even if the technical definitions of the two are not as applicable as before. The main difference between RAM and ROM [...]

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Difference Between Yoga and Pilates (0)

Yoga vs Pilates Both pilates and yoga are forms of exercise and fitness systems but pilates was developed in Germany by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century while yoga originated in India and has been practiced for thousands of years as mental and physical system. Yoga is said to have been developed by the [...] Read more at www.differencebetween.net

Difference Between Classic and Gourmet Knife (2)

Classic vs Gourmet Knife Ever since the beginning of time, cooking your own food is always a requirement. Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, an activity that is only unique to humans, and also believed to have served a very important role in the evolution of man. Cooking techniques and ingredients [...]

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Difference Between Beer and Malt Liquor (5)

Beer vs Malt Liquor You may have consumed both beer and malt liquor, and have noticed a difference in their flavors. Well, apart from this, there are many other differences between the two. Indeed, some people consider malt liquor to be inferior to beer. The main difference between malt liquor and beer is in the [...] Read more at www.differencebetween.net

 

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An Explanation and Some Reflections By Netfilx CEO

Everything below, I just find it really hurtful. I was expecting more of like, you are getting your old account back sorry for the miss understanding. My marketing advisers suck big time. No. This was more of like My Marketing Advisers suck even more and I go by whatever they say. I do not understand still how can you change something that was working perfectly fine for your consumers. Maybe I don't know the end budget or how much money you have lost. But I believe that you are adventuring into something you do not know how its going to work. My Idea would have been " Create qwikster.com as a competitor against Netflix and lets see how it works". Why will you feel if now you have to go to another website to actually stream and get your DVD. Two different charges to your card. And Keep up with the movies you don't get on time on DVD because they skip it if the first one on your list is not available. Anyways I believe you can't make everyone happy, but this is kind of screwing it up 2 times in less than 2 months. I wish I can be part of your marketing department. Maybe a real user of Netflix can let you know. Did you do any Focus Group after you change to this idea? Why did you make this decision? Who made this random suggestion? Who is advising you? Did you sleep on it? How will you feel if tomorrow McDonald decides to split and form McBurger & McFries? Please read below the letter: Dear Lourdes, I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming. Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us). So we moved quickly into streaming, but I should have personally given you a full explanation of why we are splitting the services and thereby increasing prices. It wouldn’t have changed the price increase, but it would have been the right thing to do. So here is what we are doing and why. Many members love our DVD service, as I do, because nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD. DVD is a great option for those who want the huge and comprehensive selection of movies. I also love our streaming service because it is integrated into my TV, and I can watch anytime I want. The benefits of our streaming service are really quite different from the benefits of DVD by mail. We need to focus on rapid improvement as streaming technology and the market evolves, without maintaining compatibility with our DVD by mail service. So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are really becoming two different businesses, with very different cost structures, that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently. It’s hard to write this after over 10 years of mailing DVDs with pride, but we think it is necessary: In a few weeks, we will rename our DVD by mail service to “Qwikster”. We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name “Netflix” for streaming. Qwikster will be the same website and DVD service that everyone is used to. It is just a new name, and DVD members will go to qwikster.com to access their DVD queues and choose movies. One improvement we will make at launch is to add a video games upgrade option, similar to our upgrade option for Blu-ray, for those who want to rent Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games. Members have been asking for video games for many years, but now that DVD by mail has its own team, we are finally getting it done. Other improvements will follow. A negative of the renaming and separation is that the Qwikster.com and Netflix.com websites will not be integrated. There are no pricing changes (we’re done with that!). If you subscribe to both services you will have two entries on your credit card statement, one for Qwikster and one for Netflix. The total will be the same as your current charges. We will let you know in a few weeks when the Qwikster.com website is up and ready. For me the Netflix red envelope has always been a source of joy. The new envelope is still that lovely red, but now it will have a Qwikster logo. I know that logo will grow on me over time, but still, it is hard. I imagine it will be similar for many of you. I want to acknowledge and thank you for sticking with us, and to apologize again to those members, both current and former, who felt we treated them thoughtlessly. Both the Qwikster and Netflix teams will work hard to regain your trust. We know it will not be overnight. Actions speak louder than words. But words help people to understand actions. Respectfully yours, -Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix p.s. I have a slightly longer explanation along with a video posted on our blog, where you can also post comments.

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How Facebook changes may affect your business?

Lately Facebook is providing me a headache with all of their changes. But this may mean real time management and less stress when it comes to managing your social media business life. Please find below a list and meanings written by Mikal E Belicove regarding these huge changes on the most view social Site in america.



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BY Mikal E. Belicove| August 30, 2011|

Facebook recently made a number of product and platform changes that affect companies and brands that market using the world’s most popular social utility. Here are five of the latest changes you need to be aware of:

1. Privacy settings for sharing:

What this means for your business: Facebook wordsmithed the default sharing prompt that alerts users about who sees what they’re about to post. The default setting "Everyone" was changed to "Public," and that subtle change taps into the human psyche surrounding issues related to privacy. "Public" clearly demonstrates that the public at large can view your updates, photos and more, whereas "Everyone" is ambiguous, or even folksy. That, of course, worked to the advantage of social media monitoring tools that rely on lots of public-facing content to fill their dashboards and analytic reports. The new "Public" label will likely result in fewer public-facing citations, which means businesses may have less to listen to.

2. Facebook Deals is dead:

What this means for your business: Facebook Deals was only available to merchants in eight U.S. cities, so unless your business operated in or around one of them, you won’t be impacted by this development. In any event, there’s no shortage of daily deal sites interested in working with you.

3. Ad targeting by Topic:

What this means for your business: If you know your target audience has a set of interests, ad targeting by Topic eliminates the need to manage a complex list of keywords. The addition of Topic targeting also allows businesses and brands to run A/B testing, or split testing, whereby you run two versions of the same ad -- one powered by Topic targeting, the other by Precise Interest targeting -- and then determine which one generates a higher return.

4. Advertising restrictions eased:

What this means for your business: Lifting restrictions on what is often viewed as advertisements for somewhat unsavory offerings may case users to lump all Facebook advertisements into the same distasteful pool. Now, more than ever, truth and authenticity in advertising matters.

5. Places gives way to location tagging:

What this means for your business: The impact here is minimal. Users will still be able to check-into a geographical location and take advantage of check-in Deals created by your business. But instead of using Places, they’ll use location tagging to indicate where they are -- possibly resulting in even more people tagging your businesses location. Read more at www.entrepreneur.com

 

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How to position your Blog ?

Please find below a list that will help you position your blog, if you want more information about the list just click on the last link

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10 Ways to Turn Your Blog into a Lead-Generation Machine

BY Ann Handley | September 7, 2011| 13

Sometimes when I hear companies talking about creating a "machine" for their lead-generation efforts, I think about Dr. Seuss. Specifically, I think about all the fantastical and imaginative machines he created in his 46 children's books--like the Super-Axe-Hacker, the Utterly Sputter and (my favorite) the Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz, a mighty machine that rapidly fires explosive sour-cherry stones.

39% of b2b marketers in North America find blog posts to be valuable marketing content. --Focus research, June 2011

Here's a 10-step prescription to increase your visibility and attract more qualified folks to your site. It may not shoot cherry pits, but it will help you convert your traffic into leads.

1. Make your blog an extension of your main website.

2. Solve or share, don't shill.

3. Show up.

4. Avoid War and Peace posts.

5. Pen a killer headline.

6. Link to other resources.

7. Embed companion calls to action.

8. Offer subscription services.

9. Trick out with social bling.

10. Remember one final thing. Read more at www.entrepreneur.com

 

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Sometimes the answer is in front of your nose. Stare.

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Five Things You Should Know About Web Analytics Web traffic alone doesn't generate sales. Answer these questions as you track your web-site metrics. Print Email By John D. Leavy   |   July 11, 2011   |   20

Good website analytics take the mystery out of wondering who's visiting the company website and why. You don't need to be an online marketing strategist to use them, either. There are plenty of website analytics packages for sale on the Web, but you can get started free through Google Analytics.

Related: How to Decode Website Metrics to Pump Up Your Online Marketing

Here are five points to consider as you start delving into the numbers:

1. Do your website visitors already know you?

2. Are you bringing in potential customers?

3. Does your social media presence work?

4. Are visitors bailing from your homepage?

5. Are they looking at your product or service pages? Read more at www.entrepreneur.com

 

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Unlimited Movie Theater Movies, $50/Month

This is not that bad




Unlimited Movie Theater Movies, $50/Month: "

Would you drop $50 a month to see as many movies in theaters as you wanted? MoviePass is hoping you will! Me? I don't like going to the movies. Something about sitting in the dark with a bunch of strangers makes me uneasy. I'm always afraid the person behind me is gonna stab me in the back with a dirty needle. That or talk the whole time.

Still in beta, MoviePass uses a web-based HTML 5 application to let users find the movie they'd like to see, and check with the theater. This allows them to skip the box office (or those e-tick machines) entirely, and go straight to the ticket-checker.


Users who sign up for the 'unlimited' MoviePass can see an as many movies as they want for $50 a month. Imax and 3D movies will cost $3 extra per movie. And the company is currently preparing to launch a 'limited pass,' which allows subscribers four movies per month for $30.

Right now, only 21 San Francisco area theaters are on board. But the company plans to expand to other cities this summer, and hopes to have 40 percent of US theaters with their service by the time MoviePass goes national this fall.

Well -- would you go for it? Not gonna lie, I'm averaging about two movies a year so it's not for me. Unless -- UNLESS -- there's an all-you-can-eat concessions upgrade. Then I'd f***ing live there.

MoviePass: See unlimited movies in the theater for $50 a month [digitaltrends]

Thanks to Bear, who once ate four packs of Sour Patch Kid Watermelons during the previews and ran through the movie screen."

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Don't do what you love what a contradiction

It's common wisdom to do what you love. Management experts usually promise that happiness and fulfillment will follow. But that's not always the case as I read on this article in HBR. Here are three reasons you may want to avoid pursuing your passion according to them:

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It's not your strength. You may love to do something you are just not good at. Because it can be hard to self-assess, ask for frank feedback from those around you to know where your strengths are.

You're too emotionally attached. Passion may cloud your judgment. When you care deeply about something, it can be hard to be take criticism or let others get involved.

It's a hobby, not a job. Sadly, you can't be paid for everything. What you love may not be lucrative. Instead find something you like that pays."



I Guess I'll just go with the wind...

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Don't Do What You Love

Last year, I finished directing a documentary film called The Work of 1000. Our heroine was Marion Stoddart, a woman who in the 1960s spearheaded a cleanup of the massively polluted Nashua River in Central Massachusetts — one of the most dramatic environmental success stories in American history. Amazingly, however, the river was her second choice for an advocacy project. She had originally wanted to help with the adoption of Korean children, and could have gone down that path, but she decided she'd get "too emotionally involved" to do a good job — and thus became an eco-pioneer instead.

Doing what you love can inspire great dedication and a sense of meaning — but sometimes, that passion can blind you to feedback (are you the only one who thinks it's a good idea?), make you miserable (who knew launching the initiative would mean managing a dozen new staffers?), or harm your financial prospects.

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the National Park Service. To learn more, listen to her podcasts or follow her on Twitter Read more at blogs.hbr.org

 

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CanYouDrawTheInternet Contest

Hey you! Yes Talented Graphic designer or Unborn Artist this is your time to shine and show the world your talents.



CanYouDrawTheInternet is a competition launched by UK-based digital agency Saint, ArtWeLove, Deviant Art, The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and The NYC Department of Education. The competition asks people to describe the Internet in a single image.



The submissions to the site will be sold through Artwelove with the proceeds going to New York’s public schools.

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After a wildly successful campaign for Internet Week Europe, UK-based digital agency Saint is partnering with ArtWeLove, Deviant Art, The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and The NYC Department of Education to bring Can You Draw the Internet? to Internet Week NY.

See more at www.canyoudrawtheinternet.com

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Genious Popcorn with CAFFEINE

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With these easy steps you can start creating and setting Facebook Page instantly. These steps are the beginning of something greater than expected.

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HOW TO: Set Up a Facebook Page

There are 500 million active users on Facebook — it’s about time you get in on the action and start a Facebook Page for your business. After all, the best marketing reaches out to consumers where they already are, and people spend more than 700 billion hours a month on the site. Exposure to that many eyeballs could translate to a lot of business for your company.

Not tech savvy? That’s not a problem — the process isn’t too technical. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you initiate your Facebook marketing campaign.

1. Create Your Page

Local Business or Place Company, Organization or Institution Brand or Product Artist, Band or Public Figure Entertainment Cause or Community

2. Fill In Information

3. Add a Photo

4. Suggest Your Page to Friends

5. Import Contacts

6. Start Writing Content

To post a link the proper way, click “Link” and paste the URL. Click “Attach.” Once you “attach” the URL, you’ll see that the text and photo from the page you’re linking to will populate automatically. You can change the title, paste different text into the snippet, and change the pictures (if there are several options, indicated by the “Choose a Thumbnail” prompt):

7. Get a Vanity URL

8. Use the Tools That Are Available

8. Assign Other Admins

Now that your Facebook Page is all set, you can learn more about what to do, what not to do and when to post to get the best engagement. Read more at mashable.com

 

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Google To Lease Chrome Laptops for $20/Month

URL:  http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/google-chrome-laptop-sub...

WOW, this is awesome! makes me want to go to school again

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Why Social Media Isn't Helping Online Retailers Find Customers?

This is the terrible thing someone could have ever done. Is kind of Like Mixed signals to entrepreneurs that are starting to use Social Media Marketing. Let me tell you is not that SMM is everything, but is a huge help when it comes to SEM (search engine marketing) the blogs that you write the Tweets that you send the specials that you have on facebook is a huge population that see's that and you are not reaching if you would only do Outbound advertising. Let's Face it, Social Media can help boost your position on the search engines and because the difference between the referrals from your work on SEO (search engine optimization) is more than the referrals coming from the SMM which is less doesn't mean that SMM is not working. We haven't find tools that can be more specific in the importance of SMM.



Just look at this, many of the people think that by just creating a Facebook account and a twitter they are doing social media. Just because you have a concentration in Marketing that doesn't mean that is going to work the same on SMM. Social Media is proven to be cost effective and with the right tools and the right person handling the social media efforts you will have great results.

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Why Social Isn't Helping Online Retailers Find Customers

Online retailers in the U.S. reaped an impressive $176 billion in sales last year, an 11 percent increase over 2009. That pretty much establishes Web retailing as a legitimate tactic that should command respect from those who market and sell their wares exclusively within a brick and mortar environment.

But a new study finds that while online sales continue to compete well with physical retail establishments, most online merchants believe that social media-related marketing does little in the way of lifting sales -- calling into question what if any benefits businesses actually derive from participating in social media.

Sixty-two percent of online retailers say their return on investment is either unaffected by social media or that the benefits remain unclear, according to Forrester Research's The State of Retailing Online 2011: Marketing, Social & Mobile, which was released earlier this week to members of Shop.org, the online retail division of the National Retail Federation.

Although the online retailers polled say they are underwhelmed by the results of their marketing efforts within the social networking utility Facebook and microblogging platform Twitter, they do point to a number of benefits such as building brand awareness and improving customer service.

So, then, what works for finding customers?

A whopping 90 percent of online retailers said search-engine marketing was the most effective source used to acquire customers last year, while 49 percent pointed to affiliate marketing, or paying a commission for referred business. Further, 44 percent of online retailers cited organic search traffic as having helped them find customers, while email marketing and having a social network presence each garnered 18 percent. Ten percent of those surveyed also indicated that direct mail and sweepstakes were a help, whereas about 7 percent cited offline ads and remarketing -- that is, targeting website visitors who have previously visited your site with ads that appear across the Web. Finally, just 1 percent said microblogging -- a.k.a. Twitter -- helped them find customers.

And while online retailers say social-commerce marketing has been less than successful for their businesses, many claim they’ll continue to place more of their marketing dollars into social networking, citing the potential for improvements from those channels in the future. Read more at www.entrepreneur.com

 

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The 50 Most Valuable Brands

Apple is the queen of Brands, who would have thought that apple will become the best big thing, and will surpass Microsoft on sales Im just Happy that Google is next to it Remember once you go MAC you never go BACK.

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With Event Check-ins now available on mobile devices, you have another way to increase awareness of events such as store openings and special sales. Anyone invited to an event who responds as "Attending" or "Maybe Attending" will be able to check in three hours before the event starts and until it ends. When they check in, the action creates a story in their friends' News Feeds, spreading awareness of your business and your event in an organic way. http://amplify.com/u/b10636

Facebook Page Banning!

It's been a long time i have been waiting for this Facebook page ban tool. Now you can ban those obnoxious situations between Page and Fans.

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Facebook Pages Can Now Sort Their Likes to Remove Pages and Unban Reformed Trolls April 13th, 2011

When Facebook Page admins click the Like count beneath their Page’s profile picture, they’ll now see the option to sort those who Like their brand into people, Pages, admins and banned users. From this interface, admins can remove Pages they don’t want to be affiliated with, and unban users who they want to return wall posting privileges to.

As part of the February 2011 Facebook Page redesign, Facebook began allowing Pages to Like other Pages. The new sort ability makes it easy for Pages to see which other Pages Like them, opening opportunities for alliances where Pages link to each other.

Now, admins of larger Pages can sort out all users and just see the Pages that Like them, making it easier to discover and remove offensive Pages.

By giving Page admins more flexibility as to how they handle moderation, Facebook is becoming a safer place for brands to set up shop and purchase ads. Read more at www.insidefacebook.com

 

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