Twitter for business has finally relaunched this past Monday, and aims to be the central resource to help businesses gain traction, fans and income with their Twitter marketing strategies. There, you can find a variety of lessons and tutorials teaching you about leveraging the 140 character platform. Let’s investigate. What is Twitter For Business? Twitter [...]

Social media news changes faster than ebooks can be published, which is why it’s so important to stay connected with updates, news and changes in the industry. This week, there is a host of news pouring in from Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and others, that we’ll clue you in on here. Latest Facebook News In the [...]

Google+ updates have arrived, with the platform hastily advancing its current design and usability, thanks to Twitter and Facebook’s constant evolution. The new features are actually very user-friendly and great for local businesses. Today I’m going to detail what’s changed and how it will help your company online. The Google+ Updating System Many will say [...]

Social media news this week that caught my eye, made the Alltop top posts. This post was by blogger Chris Abraham, on how NOT to pitch a blogger. I bet many of you small business owners out there have often wondered, am I doing this right? That’s why today I discuss his post, along with [...]

The Facebook marketing team has once again pushed the privacy envelope a little backwards, as they recently announced that marketers can pay $1 to inbox you. While still in its testing phase, this is another aggressive step in the ‘Facebook is becoming more ads than social’ crisis since their public offering last year. Today I [...]

The interactive gun map that was published recently by New York paper, The Journal News, has caused outrage and retaliation – from one blogger in particular. Christopher Fountain went out of his way to strike back at a paper that thought publishing the names and addresses of gun owners would be a good idea. Today [...]

Instragram the photo editing site that can’t seem to stop hogging the headlines, is at it again. Apparently vicious rumors surfaced that Facebook-owned Instagram could now sell your photos anywhere they like. It’s a photo bonanza! Not true of course, but let’s see why this is happening and who or what may have sparked these [...]

Social media has developed to the point where it’s not only wanted, it’s needed. No business can navigate the high seas of technology and online marketing without it. That’s why students of Newberry College can now major in social media! It’s not just a step in the right direction – it’s a leap. And today, [...]

The new Facebook newsfeed has been outraging business owners for quite some time – what with the rumored hefty pricetags that ‘must’ be paid for posts to reach people that already like your page. In response to this continued outrage, Facebook has rolled out ‘pages only’ a feature that supposedly fixes these problems. Today, we [...]

Facebook privacy has long been a contentious issue among users and businesses alike. We don’t like the fact that Facebook lays claim to everything that is published on the site, and Facebook doesn’t really care that we have a problem with that. But today, a privacy notice went viral, that claimed to protect users from [...]