How to promote your new business on Facebook

How to promote your newly established business on Facebook? How can you effectively and efficiently utilize the world’s top social network, which has an estimated 350 million active users online? The following tips will give your fresh business, service, or product a substantial exposure it needs by using Facebook:

1. Have a friendly profile

In getting into all the benefits and advantages Facebook can give to your business, you need to first have a nice and friendly profile. It means you need to have a lot of friends – real friends and not people whom you have grabbed through spamming. You also need to be active in commenting and liking your friends’ posts, responding to their valid requests, greeting on their birthdays and other friendly social interaction activities. Your profile should also be complete and transparent to all your friends. A complete profile shows all your necessary information including your real name, status, interests, contacts, address, websites, email and the like. Your profile shall also contain photos and videos that will enable your friends to recognize you fully. This is to build trust and confidence between you and your friends. Read more

6 tips to skyrocket your blog traffic

So the title of this article caught your attention? Perhaps you got a new blog that you want to attract visitors; or you’re running a not so old blog that continuously disappoints you for not pulling the level of traffic you’ve been dreaming? You think you can dramatically increase your blog’s traffic and keep that numbers consistently? Of course you can! And that’s what I’ll tell you in this article. Now enjoy the following six tips on how to attract people coming into that blog of yours.

1. Conquer Stumblers
Stumbleupon, next to Google search pages, is the second referrer of visitors to my blog. Thousands of stumblers have already landed on my blog, which is more than the number of diggers and other bookmarkers Read more

What is lifestreaming? Will it replace blogging?

I was creating my post about the “list of top marketing blogs and bloggers” when I stumbled upon Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion blog. Steve was saying goodbye to blogging and welcoming lifestreaming. The title of his blog post created a very intriguing question inside my mind. Why should he decide to leave his well-established and very popular blog? It’s like a comet that was about to hit the world of blogging. Is this a sign that the blogosphere will begin to fall and be dominated by the world of lifestreaming. Steve stated the following: Read more

Let’s follow and tweet each other on twitter

As I write this post, Twitter is already ranked 26^th among the world’s most popular websites according to Alexa’s web traffic rankings. Since it’s creation in 2006, Twitter has already become a phenomenon in the online world. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging services that enables its user to send and read messages known as “tweets”. Tweets are text-based posts of 140 maximum characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. I am enjoying twitter about a few months now. As of today, I already followed 1,485 twitters. 1,550 twitters also have followed me as of this time. Twitter is a place for easy connection with the people you want to follow and you want to keep an eye on whatever they do. A simple question that says “what are you doing?” does all the update of every users, tweeters and members of the site. It can also become an effective medium to promote your blog or website. That is, as long as you abide the rules of ethical social media practice. Read more