Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category

Top 10 Ways to Avoid Social Media Scams

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Don’t Become a Victim of Social Media Fraud Facebook recently made world history when the social media site crossed the 500,000,000 threshold of registered users.  Along with other popular social media networks like YouTube, My Space, Twitter, and LinkedIn, to name a few, there exist today online networks of unprecedented proportions that represent a marketer’s [...]

Facebook Advertising Reaches 62% of Online Americans

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Why have business owners been migrating their on-line ad spend to Facebook? The simple answer – Market Reach. The latest finding published by comScore shows that that businesses can reach 62% of the all Americans that are online via Facebook.  A very distant second is MySpace. Here are some of the pros and cons to [...]

Social Media Marketing Stabilizes for Small-Medium Businesses

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

About a quarter of small businesses now marketing via social media After climbing steeply, according to research from Network Solutions and the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, small-business adoption of social media marketing has plateaued at 24%. The study of US small business found [...]

Who are the Buyers – Twitter Followers or Facebook Fans?

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Research conducted by Exact Target and discussed last week by eMarketer revealed that Twitter follower have a greater propensity to make a purchase than Facebook fans.  The data showed that the Twitter followers (37%) were more than twice as likely to make a purchase from a brand they follow than Facebook fans (17%). To take [...]