The top reasons for social media marketing in 2011 and why this should be on your 2012 radar

Increasing website traffic through social media integration Improving brand awareness or reputation Converting social media members, followers, etc. into paying customers Converting social media members, followers, etc. into paying customers Improving the position in search engine rankings Achieving or increasing ...» read more Posted on 12/01/11 Tags: increasing roi for business, search engine rankings, seo, social media, social media 2012, website analytics,

Social Media Marketing – how to monetize the channel

How do you overcoming the challenges of making money out of social media. How do you monetization your blog or website? This is a brief article on how corporate business perceives social marketing and its ability to produce ROI for the company and how to measure it. The newest report from MarketingSherpa 'CMO Perspecti...» read more Posted on 12/01/11 Tags: social media, social media for business, social media marketing,

Current Social Media Stats

Facebook: 750 million users via Facebook Twitter: over 200 million users via AllTwitter Renren: over 170 million users via Mashable Qzone: 480 million users via TechCrunch Sina Weibo: over 100 million users via Mashable LinkedIn: 100 million members via LinkedIn Groupon:...» read more Posted on 09/10/11 Tags: social media, social media stats,

Google+ user feedback has caused changes to be made.

It’s been a couple of weeks since Google+ launched, and with the exception of China already blocking its use, people do seem to like it. That’s good news for Google after the failures of Buzz and Wave, and bad news for Facebook who now has a serious competitor in the social network space. You may think ...» read more Posted on 07/16/11 Tags: google, social media, social network,