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Social media marketing is a vast landscape.

When you decide it’s time you started making better use of social media to promote your small business, it’s easy to get distracted for hours looking at all the different social networks and wondering:

‘Which of these should I be using?’

Let’s break this down and look at the big networks one at a time.

Do I Need to Be on Twitter?

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A well-designed business card can help boost your business and people's awareness. What makes a potential client pay attention to a business card over all the others? Perhaps it’s the person giving the card, or the product/service they provide. But most likely, chances are business cards that get saved are the once that stand out from the rest.

Check out the following tips to help you create memorable business card.

With the rapid proliferation of social media and social media channels, there’s been an equally as rapid growth in the creation of memes. While memes — highly viral niche content with fast burnout rates — have existed for some time, they are currently the internet’s favorite phenomena. A meme is, by definition, a cultural element passed from person to person. These can be viral videos, animated gifs, trending catchphrases, mash-ups of content like the Angelina Jolie le...

Yesterday, Google announced it would be replacing Android Market with a newly named service called Google Play. The company claim this is more than a name change. The Google Play Store not only replaces Android Market, but also extends it, adding other types of digital content such as eBooks, music, video content and more.

Under the Google Play label, the company hopes to consolidate all of its purchasable digital content under one umbrella. The search giant says the change...

During some reasearch and reading I was doing I found this video by Erik Qualman! Full list is below:

Tech killed the…

1. Busy Signal

2. Encyclopedia

3. Overhead Projector

4. Blind Date

5. Carbon Paper

6. Map

7. Cursive

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Despite the fact that social networking is anticipated to replace traditional email, there is still some resonance with the electronic exchange of messaging.

One thing I’ve noticed as a young professional is the messages you communicate other than the basic content within an email.

 For example, if you write an email to your boss and you use ALL CAPS, it can be interpreted as yelling.

Or if you choose to just capitalize some wo...

 There are countless articles circulating the Web about how to network on Twitter, how to get more Twitter followers, how to tweet, when to tweet, what to tweet, who to follow, what URL shorteners to use, Twitter SEO, and so on. With all of that information available, it’s not hard to imagine that Twitter users, particularly Twitter beginners, can go a bit overboard and actually end up driving otherwise willing followers away while thinking they’re following all the ‘ru...

47% of small businesses with Facebook pages see a significant amount of traffic go from their Facebook page to their website, which is great for business growth. Even better, 48% of those polled said a portion of the new visitors convert to paying customers!

Clearly small businesses are using their Facebook pages well. Their top strategies? Highlighting basic info about their business, sharing photos and videos, having conversations with customers, providing customer support, and holdin...

If you have ever dabbled with Twitter, you’ll know that the concept is really quite simple: you have 140 characters to use to update your followers. At first this may seem like a novelty fad or something fun to play around with, but Twitter has proven to be a huge and effective tool when it comes to promotions. As it turns out, those 140 characters can make a huge difference in attracting people to your site and g...