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Using Facebook Like to Market Your Business

According to new figures released by a joint survey between Exact Target and CoTweet, Facebook users use the Like option for a brand for one overpowering reason – discounts and special offers.

Surveying 1,550 U.S. respondents aged 15 and older from March 2009 to April 2010, the results found that a whopping 40% of consumers like [...]

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Draw a Tree, Get Cool Stuff

Over at Bonsai Interactive, we made an art video on how to draw a bonsai tree, but we’re not sure of the results. So… we want you to show us the way.
Draw your interpretation of a bonsai tree (either yourself or with friends) and then upload to the Bonsai Interactive Facebook page [...]

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Facebook Pisses Off Users. Again.

For all its cool connectivity features and business tools, Facebook can still manage to piss users off even when it’s trying to be helpful.
Whether it’s new privacy features gone mad, or redesigns to the site itself, Facebook always seems to divide its userbase between happy, non-chalant and hate. Now a new feature for Facebook Page [...]

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Facebook Fan Page Evaluation Fun with Vitrue

One of the reasons I set up a Facebook page was to offer an outlet where folks that were more comfortable on Facebook could connect and interact.
Yes, my blog is my home space, and then there’s also Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and other social profiles where we can connect. But not everyone likes reading blogs; not [...]

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7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook

With over 400 million active users, Facebook continues to be a great marketing platform for your business.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a small-to-medium business or a large conglomerate – Facebook should definitely be in your marketing arsenal.
To help you find some of the ways you can start to use Facebook to market your business, I’ve [...]

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Twitter Advertising on Facebook? No Thanks

Have you signed up for Sponsored Tweets on Twitter? Or Magpie? Or TweetROI? Do you offer sponsored posts and paid reviews on your blog? If so, you might have to re-think how you share this information, thanks to a Terms of Service update from Facebook.

Why does a Facebook update affect you if you’re on Twitter, [...]

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When Social Network Security Can’t Protect You

Justin Michael is like many online users. He has a Twitter account and a Facebook account, as well as his own website.
He’s passionate about new technology and social media/networking and what it can do for you, personally and professionally.
Justin is also running for Mayor of Santa Barbara in the upcoming November 3 election. He’s using [...]

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Communication + Unity = Community

Yesterday on Twitter I made the comment that communication + unity = community. A simple play on words, it seemed to hit the target with a lot of people. This guest post from Cathy Browne, a Canadian PR professional currently based in the US, takes that sentiment further and looks at how we can all [...]

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