Social Media

Facebook Page SSL and the SmallBiz WordPress Theme

September 19, 2011
Thumbnail image for Facebook Page SSL and the SmallBiz WordPress Theme

Many SmallBiz Theme owners are using the SmallBiz Facebook App to manage their Facebook Page Tabs in WordPress. On October 1 Facebook will be requiring that all content delivered through Facebook Pages be delivered from a secure HTTPS server using SSL. (Here’s their announcement.) Getting Ready for SSL So if you have created custom Facebook [...]

Read the full article →

How Small Businesses Can Use Google Plus

September 2, 2011
Google Plus

Google Plus, or Google+ or just G+, is all the buzz on the web these days, even though it’s still in the relatively early stages of development. As a small business owner, it’s important to understand what Google Plus is and what you can do with it. Start formulating some strategies for using Google Plus [...]

Read the full article →

Google Places Online Review Tips for #RWX

July 27, 2011
#RWX

Here’s a video with a couple of tips for accessing your online reviews on Google Places. I really like the Review Wednesday (#RWX) idea from GetListed.org. The idea is to take a few minutes every Wednesday and leave a review for a small business you have visited during the past week. Then share a link [...]

Read the full article →

How is Google+ Different Than Facebook and Twitter?

July 4, 2011
Google Plus Circles

I‘m really digging Google+. Even more than Facebook or Twitter. For me, one of the most compelling things about Google+ is the way it allows you to organize your friends and contacts into “Circles”. Sharing on Facebook In Facebook, when I share something, *every one* of my Facebook friends gets it. Sometimes I’m sharing a [...]

Read the full article →

How to Add Twitter Followers Everyday …and for FREE!!

July 4, 2011

What’s the last thing you want to worry about every day? It’s where you are going to get your newest twitter followers from. Well, with these three strategies here, I believe that you could change your Twitter life. This Woman Rocks at Twitter! I did and was able to build my list up to 5403 followers in [...]

Read the full article →

Google launches its alternative to Facebook – Google+

June 28, 2011
Google+

Google announced the launch of Google+ today, and this seems like their most well thought out answer to Facebook yet. Google clearly realizes that it needs to have a stronger social component across all its offerings. Personally, I hope it does well and challenges Facebook – unlike their previous forays into Social. Facebook is too [...]

Read the full article →

Social Media to Take Root in Search Algorithms

May 19, 2011
MIT Technology Review thumbnail

This month the MIT Technology Review Magazine released what it describes as the Top Ten Emerging Technologies that will impact everyone’s daily life. The magazine profiles all walks of technology and science. What was number one, you ask? Social Indexing! What is social indexing? It is the concept of compressing data from networks like Twitter [...]

Read the full article →

Quality Content Begins with a Good Plan

May 17, 2011
Google Panda Update Thumbnail

This is a guest post from Julie Trade-Levitch, President of SourDough Communications. Julie has over 15 years of experience in copywriting and helping businesses put together marketing and communications plans that get results. There has been a lot of online chatter lately about Google’s recent updates to its algorithm. Referred to as the “Farmer Update” [...]

Read the full article →

An Introduction to the New Facebook Page Changes and iFrames

April 26, 2011
Thumbnail image for An Introduction to the New Facebook Page Changes and iFrames

Recently Facebook made some pretty significant changes to the way Facebook Pages work. They changed the appearance of the pages and where the page tabs live, and they also changed the way that you create custom page tabs. A New Approach for Facebook Page Tabs – iFrame Previously, to create a Page Tab with custom [...]

Read the full article →

Help Your Favorite Small Businesses with Review Wednesday #RWX

January 9, 2011
RWX Review Wednesday

Want to help out your favorite local business in a tough economy? Here’s your chance: the smart folks at GetListed.org have come up with a very cool idea- it’s called Review Wednesday. The idea is to help spread the word about your favorite small businesses and help them get more customers. Online reviews are very [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →