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May 2nd, 2013 by SEM Contributor
We all know social media is important to your business.
Twitter is one of those essential venues to work with, and once you’ve setup your account, you want to see those followers rolling in. But what if you don’t? How can you get more followers?
Check out these tips…
1. Sign up on Directories
You can use different directories to…
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Social media users, the stock market, and (some of) the world at large ran amuck on Tuesday when the Associated Press Twitter account was hacked and tweeted this erroneous information: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.”
All it took was 140 characters. These “small bursts of information” can send us into an uproar, make…
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April 27th, 2013 by Ann Smarty
We all know the basic ways that we can customize our Gmail accounts. Just hop into Labs and you can make it into pretty much anything you want. From the ultra-helpful and productivity sparking, to the pretty much pointless and just a little silly, there are a lot of interesting projects you can use to make Gmail your own.
But…
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April 22nd, 2013 by SEM Contributor
When you’re trying to choose a college for the coming fall, it’s easy to get frustrated. There’s just too much to consider.
The faster you can narrow down the options, the sooner you can get things moving in the right direction. And one way to make this fast and easy for you is to use social media to help you…
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April 18th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
Trolls have existed almost as long as the Internet itself. Trolling was first identified as early as 1978, long before the easy-to-use Facebook platform had even been dreamt of, when the Bulletin Board System (BBS) was developed to share knowledge between hobbyist computer users via connected computer networks. But trolling became far more commonplace in the early 1990s, when computer…
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April 17th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
The thousands of ‘Likes,’ Comments and Shares you expected to happen naturally for your company Facebook page never materialized, huh?
There are a number of reasons why your company’s social media isn’t working.
Luckily, there are some great tips for creating buzz around your social media platforms. Ready to get social?
Give your customers a reason to visit your social …
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April 16th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
Social media did not always put people out there in such a way that strangers could find out anything they want about us. In fact, when Facebook first went “public” after the Ivy League colleges in the US had access, only a few universities were given access at a time. As the popularity grew, just like social networks before it,…
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April 11th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
Social media is proving to be an incredible thing all the time. On it, you can get the opinions of thousands of people in an instant, if you know what you are doing. Recently, Pete Ashton was on the Internet trying to find a plumber, when an idea came to his mind. He attempted to use Twitter to find the…
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April 10th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
Social media is where it is now.
You can’t keep your kids away from it. But you can teach them to be smart about it, because unfortunately, story after story tells us that bad things can happen on social media.
So how do you let your kids keep up with everything digitally and socially while keeping them safe at the…
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April 9th, 2013 by SEM Contributor
There is a large amount of car dealerships in the world today, which makes the industry extremely competitive. One great marketing tool that car dealerships need to use in order to combat the competition is social media.
Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are great marketing tools for car dealerships because they allow them to connect with their followers, gain…
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