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5 Ways to Get People to Tweet About Your Business

  • August 31st, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Twitter has because a huge form of promotion for businesses. You can get plenty of free promotion for your business by using Twitter. You can use a few simple procedures to help make it a little easier for people to leave remarks about your business. These should be used if you want to get people to be more likely to… Read more

Facebook’s New Button

  • August 29th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Button, button, who’s got the button? Facebook, that’s who. The popular social media site’s “Like” button has infiltrated the popular culture as well as proved to be a make-or-break for some people’s day, social status or mood in general. Now Facebook will rev it up a little bit with the creation of a new button for people to get happy… Read more

Should A Brand Engage With Celebrities On Twitter For Getting Noticed

  • August 21st, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Establishing a new brand on Twitter is not a very simple task. Most people on Twitter are not interested in an unnoticed brand and would only follow three types of people on Twitter, firstly a celebrity Twitter account, a big brand or an account that follows back. For a brand to get established, it is important to maintain a high… Read more

4 Winning Strategies to Dominate YouTube

  • August 14th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Admittedly, most people crave the stardom and attention that comes with viral YouTube videos. The right strategy to make this happen is perhaps the Holy Grail of online video marketing. With daily views of YouTube videos surpassing two billion and hundreds of original channels with different shows, it is no wonder that over forty-eight hours of video content are up-loaded… Read more

Should Your Small Business Use Instagram?

  • August 9th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Take a look at any newsfeed, and you’ll see how insanely popular Instagram has become. Suddenly everyone is a photographer, and every photo looks vintage. The easily-recognized Instagram filters do have an uncanny way of making everything look better. With Instagram taking off and quickly gaining millions of new users, it’s only natural that businesses will flock to it with… Read more

How to Save Money on Insurance Using Facebook

  • August 8th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
The flood of advertising for affordable insurance is not limited to TV and print ads. Social network sites are now a place for insurance providers to offer discounts for safe, responsible drivers. Insurance companies maintain their own pages on Facebook and other similar media network sites, and visiting these pages may actually result in a savings on insurance. Although some… Read more

Undroppable: Social Media is Being Used for a Documentary

  • August 7th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Too many American students are not realizing the value of their education and are dropping out of school. Though schools have constantly enlisted the help of motivational speakers and guidance counselors, and though the rest of the world has been witness to public service announcements, these tactics are no longer having the same effect. The structure of our world has… Read more

10 Sites That Look Like Pinterest

  • August 6th, 2012 by Ann Smarty
Pinterest has managed to become both a highly controversial and popular websites since its creation. With a massive growth between January and February of this year, there has been no sign of it losing the support of its loyal userbase. All while continuing to find new people to populate its innovative pin boards with images found both internally and externally… Read more

Louisiana Law Forces Sex Offenders to Post Convictions on Social Media

  • August 2nd, 2012 by SEM Contributor
Many parents worry about their child’s use of social media sites like Facebook. Not only do they have to worry about cyberbullying, but they also have to worry about the millions of strangers that can easily befriend their child and gain information about or access to them. It’s unfortunate that our world is filled with criminals, but when it comes… Read more

Must Know Advice for Teachers Using Facebook

  • July 27th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
It seems like every other a day, another teacher is losing their job over something Facebook related. Unfortunately, though Facebook may be your own personal account, many school districts are using the information they find on these sites to get rid of teachers. If you’re a teacher, you need to protect yourself from being a Facebook victim. Use the following… Read more