Twitter as booster of your Business

October 30th, 2009

Advantage of using Twitter

1. IT ANNOUNCES BREAKING NEWS:
Latest updates can be checked easily whatever current situation is going on it easily informs us in seconds.

2. IT Transmits time-sensitive information:
As the heading shows using twitter saves time by quick Access to information. It transmits the data at the earliest.

3. Positions the company as a thought leader:
This includes distributing original content to extend the conversation.

4. Provides an alternative forum for comments:
This also includes enabling attendees at live events, such as trade shows, to communicate with each other.

5. Commerce support:
Twitter can aid sales, but it can’t become strictly a promotional broadcast channel or many followers will leave.

Twitter is expanding day by day as it gives an open forum era for marketers and costumers. As it increases the perceptibility of our band it is one of the most powerful free tools.

  • Twitter is also often known as micro-blogging. A device that accepts messages from sms, web or third party API projects. Makes people easy to get connected. By this way twitter is also a relationship between different people from different parts of world.
  • Lead generation. Track the number of sales leads, purchases, or reduced customer complaints. This will help you in different ways like:
  • Communication: This is an indication of how engaged your followers are with you. Be in contact with them and get to know what they really need
  • Improve your brand:. Beyond traditional measurements, access whether public perception of your brand changed as a result of your Twitter interactions.

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How to Boost your Business via Facebook???

October 28th, 2009

1. Facebook can help you market your small business.
2. Profile page on Facebook becomes your “brand”.
3. Facebook Apps are worth spending time and money on.

Facebook is wonderful because it really meshes the best of what you might find at MySpace or LinkedIn, for example. Facebook was started originally for college students, so it was a very natural progression to offer it to professional as they went into the business world. you’re going to find a lot more small business owners on Facebook. MySpace has a very personal quality. It’s used a lot to talk with friends. Facebook kind of combines the two where you can really blur the lines between professional and personal. It’s a wonderful tool.

You can write on people’s virtual walls. You can leave people messages. Facebook is great to expand your current network. Facebook as a relationship building tool, that’s how you can really market your business and get out there.

It makes it so easy for you to connect with people you may not have met before this thing helps you out to expand your business and really reach out and build these relationships on an online platform that’s serious yet at the same time can be fun. There’s three main ways. Facebook is a great marketing tool for small businesses because it’s free. That’s the biggest reason. It’s fairly easy to navigate. So the first thing would be to put up a great profile. If some one searches your name in Google or any searching engine – and you’re on lots of pages – You’re Facebook profile pops up about sixth. That’s very strong, and it’s wonderful for search engine rankings, just to get your name out there.

Establishing a strong profile is the basis of your entire Facebook marketing strategy because it really allows you to show what you can do, who you can help, what you have to offer.

The second way for Facebook is to reach out to other people in your industry, really to make those connections.

The third way is to reach your target market. One really neat way to do that is Facebook offers a feature that lets you see friends of friends. Facebook is really a relationship tool. The more relationships you make on this, the better you can really market your services. Anyone can start a group. It’s wonderful for small businesses that want to market themselves, to bring together people in their industry.

That’ how u can boost your business via Facebook.

1. Facebook can help you market your small business. 

2. Profile page on Facebook becomes your “brand”.

3. Facebook Apps are worth spending time and money on.

Facebook is wonderful because it really meshes the best of what you might find at MySpace or LinkedIn, for example. Facebook was started originally for college students, so it was a very natural progression to offer it to professional as they went into the business world. you’re going to find a lot more small business owners on Facebook. MySpace has a very personal quality. It’s used a lot to talk with friends. Facebook kind of combines the two where you can really blur the lines between professional and personal. It’s a wonderful tool.

you can write on people’s virtual walls. You can leave people messages. Facebook is great to expand your current network. Facebook as a relationship building tool, that’s how you can really market your business and get out there.

It makes it so easy for you to connect with people you may not have met before this thing helps you out to expand your business and really reach out and build these relationships on an online platform that’s serious yet at the same time can be fun. There’s three main ways. Facebook is a great marketing tool for small businesses because it’s free. That’s the biggest reason. It’s fairly easy to navigate. So the first thing would be to put up a great profile. If some one searches your name in Google or any searching engine – and you’re on lots of pages – You’re Facebook profile pops up about sixth. That’s very strong, and it’s wonderful for search engine rankings, just to get your name out there.

Establishing a strong profile is the basis of your entire Facebook marketing strategy because it really allows you to show what you can do, who you can help, what you have to offer.

The second way for Facebook is to reach out to other people in your industry, really to make those connections.

The third way is to reach your target market. One really neat way to do that is Facebook offers a feature that lets you see friends of friends. Facebook is really a relationship tool. The more relationships you make on this, the better you can really market your services. Anyone can start a group. It’s wonderful for small businesses that want to market themselves, to bring together people in their industry.

That’ how u can boost your business via Facebook.

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Effective tips to use twitter as powerfull marketing tool

October 27th, 2009

Marketers can use Twitter to better dominate see engine results pages (SERPs). Search engines exclusive exhibit two natural results for a autochthonous website per query, but marketers can publish content elsewhere to curb more of their SERPs and stifle competitors’ rankings.

Pushing content out to sites like Twitter can pull users back to marketers’ sites to verify whatever action. It’s great to physique off-site communities and microsites, but finally marketers want to bring engaged traffic back to their own sites. Marketers should view their total efforts as wheels, with their websites as hubs with different social media spokes. Direct, point-to-point communication helps marketers reduce the risk users will drop off before returning to their sites.

Recently Google & Yahoo signed exlusive contracts with Twitter and Facebook for availablity of live feeds which will be included in the search engines.

Bing Tries to Bring Relevancy Factor to Real-Time Search

As previously reported, Microsoft has prefabricated deals with both twitter & Facebook , which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time see efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of see engine marketing, particularly with Google also on board with Twitter and rumored to be conversation to Facebook.

Bing has already prefabricated a beta version of its Twitter see acquirable to users at bing.com/twitter. The most interesting aspect of Bing’s Twitter see is that it offers something plain older Twitter Search (formerly Summize) doesn’t. That is a connexion factor (or at least an attempted connexion factor).

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Facebook debuts restructured news feeds

October 27th, 2009

(CNET) — Facebook members will start to see a new look for their home page “news feeds” on Friday, with the design now featuring a toggle view between a main view, featuring the top stories from their friends list based on their Facebooking habits, and a “live feed” featuring real-time updates from the whole network.

“When the user wakes up in the morning, you go to Facebook and you see [the] news feed,” product manager Peter Deng told CNET News. “You see the stuff that you missed, the best of the previous day, to basically catch you up on what your friends have been up to.”

This is sort of bringing Facebook’s design back to an earlier version. This spring, likely inspired by the hype surrounding Twitter’s “stream,” Facebook converted its home page news feed into a feed of live updates and relegated “highlights” to a small column on the right side of the page. Plenty of members absolutely hated it, even though Facebook execs have since said that the redesign didn’t result in a drop in traffic or usage.

Deng said that the design released Friday, which will be rolling out to the social network’s massive user base over the course of the day starting at 1 p.m. ET, was put together by “responding to a lot of feedback along the way.”

Birthday and event alerts are now more prominent, and the news feed also contains stories that stopped appearing when Facebook launched the stream-inspired home page: relationship status news, photos added and tagged, and the like. Brands’ fan pages will be worked in there, too, but Deng said Facebook does not allow them to pay for higher placement or prominence. User controls will stay the same: you can opt to see fewer updates from a given person or fan page.

The upcoming redesign was leaked earlier this week via a document distributed to advertisers. But Deng said that the company has “made a few user interface tweaks since then.”

News Source:  http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/24/facebook.newsfeed/index.html

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Gifting Applications for Facebook Platform!

September 8th, 2009

icon_facebookThere are numerous types of applications run on facebook platform to increase your brand/product visiblity on facebook.com. You might have seen many gifting applications already running on facebook.com. Gifting application will allow users to send and receive virtual gifts, small tokens of appreciation that are the perfect way to say “Happy Birthday”, “Congrats”, or just “Hey, I’m mising you…”.

These gifts can be your product image or images relevant to your industry. Users can engage in activity like inviting xxx number of friends to earn credits and these credits can be redeem to purchase virtual gifts.  In this way more users will come and join the application and your brand/product will be promoted without any huge upfront costs.

To get your own Gifting App, click here to request a quote!

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Top Twitter applications of all time!

September 7th, 2009

Twitter is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds lately.  It seems like everyone is talking about Twitter.  I picked the top twitter apps based on there monthly unique visitors (compete ranking).

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Twitter Applications Monthly unique visits (Compete)
1. Twitpic 1,236,828
2. Tweetdeck 285,864
3. Digsby 233,472
4. Twittercounter 212,200
5. Twitterfeed 149,812
6. Twitterholic 147,164
7. Twhirl 143,333
8. Twitturly 88,793
9. Twtpoll 74,154
10. Retweetist 60,051
11. Tweepler 51,304
12. Hellotxt 45,754
13. Twitdom 45,411
14. Tweetscan 44,463
15. Tweetburner 41,754
16. Tweetvisor 31,621
17. Twittervision 30,708
18. Twitterfall 29,592
19. Monitter 25,433
20. Twibs 17,168
21. Twistori 16,229
22. Twitbin 14,986
Top Twitter applications of all time!

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How to Make Money from Facebook Apps?

September 5th, 2009

doyouThe app industry has really exploded over the past couple of years, and is making big money. In the past if you wanted to get in on the lucrative app business you would have needed to be well versed in the relevant programming language to be able to write the code for your application, but now anyone can get in on it as an entrepreneur and make good money from it without needing to have any kind of technical knowledge or skills whatsoever.

There are two major platforms which really dominate this market – Facebook and the iPhone, both of which have a truly enourmous market for new applications. Since I have already written a hub about how to make iphone apps and make money from them, I thought it was about time I wrote another hubpage focussing on facebook instead.

There are two routes which anyone can take to make money from facebook apps which I know of, so take a look at both and then decide which route suits you best - have a go at both!

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Introducing Facebook Connect for Mobile Web

September 5th, 2009

Over the last three years, there has been unprecedented innovation in the mobile industry, made evident by a surge of new devices and applications. As engagement with this technology grows, developers are empowered with the opportunity to create compelling experiences that transcend platforms and enable users to engage with applications wherever they are. Last March, we announced Facebook Connect for iPhone, to make it possible for iPhone developers to integrate the power of Facebook with their apps. Today, we are bringing the power of Facebook Connect to every mobile developer with Facebook Connect for Mobile Web.

Facebook Connect for Mobile Web makes mobile sites or applications on any platform more social, and will provide developers with social distribution. Users can now publish Feed stories from their phones to Facebook, and those actions will be instantly distributed to their friends through News Feed. Facebook Connect for Mobile Web has the same rich features you find on Facebook Connect websites and iPhone apps, including:

  • Making API calls so your application can access user data and integrate users’ identities
  • Publishing directly to the Facebook Stream
  • Prompting users for additional permissions

For example, using just a few lines of code, Qik integrated Facebook Connect for Mobile Web with their Symbian client for Nokia smartphones, making it easy for users to connect to Qik and share with their friends from their phones.

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We’ll continue to work with the industry to ensure that mobile developers have access to our powerful set of tools and APIs, with which they can enable users to access Facebook wherever they are.

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What’s the buzz about Viral Marketing?

August 27th, 2009

What’s the buzz about Viral Marketing?

Viral Marketing refers to a marketing tactic which is aimed to spread like a virus creating loops of awareness and interactivity about an event or a product. You guessed it right! Like a virus spreads and takes on epidemic proportions, an idea/message by word-of-mouth or a social network reaches out to scores of people creating tremendous buzz and hype at no cost.
The term is considered to be first employed by Harvard B-school guys Jeffrey Rayport and Tim Draper. Credit, however, of using it first on the web goes to Douglas Rushkoff who wrote at length about it in his book Media Virus in 1994. Some of the early instances of Viral Marketing can be found in now oh-so-common Pyramid Schemes of investment and Multi-level Marketing endeavors.

Today as Viral Marketing evolves in to a full-blown marketing and social phenomena, it is widely believed to be a no-cost, sustainable way to communicate with a community of like-minded users and in the process get converts and potential customers. Major social networks or Web 2.0 icons like Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace have today turned into household names.

A recent BBC survey targeting users in the 16-35 age groups announced “A third of young people regularly access Facebook and Twitter via their mobile”. There are other studies too which indicate Facebook leads the pack and is far more in vogue than MySpace, Twitter and Bebo combined. It’s not uncommon to find such flippant polls on the web as the following on Hip Rank site:

As Viral Marketing gets epic popularity, its use for driving traffic to a website or as a product evangelist has increased. No matter if you use Bebo, Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, the key is to keep your message real short in about 200 characters. Avoiding advertising terms like “Sale”, “Free”, “Buy” or “limited time” is highly recommended as nobody wants to walk on a sales pitch. Social networks are your best bet when you share an article, tip, or some rare bit of useful information with one and all. Not only would you get “followed”, “tweeted”, “beboed” and “facebooked”, you might even land that much coveted book deal or an MSNBC face-off.

Go seed your own viral marketing campaign today!

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New Opportunities for Inbox and Notification Integration on Facebook

August 23rd, 2009

Facebook recently announced that they are continuously looking for ways to open core Facebook experiences to developers for innovation. Today we set our focus on two communication channels: notifications and the Facebook Inbox. We’re excited to release two new APIs that will let your applications access your users’ inboxes and notifications in a structured manner. In addition, you can make your stream applications available as attachments for Facebook messages so that users can more easily share application content with friends.

Inbox API

Last week we announced an update to the Open Stream API to allow integration of Page streams with applications. Today we are releasing the Inbox API so you can provide users with even more opportunities to interact with rich Facebook features within your applications. For example, a desktop application geared toward small business owners could enable users to check their company’s Page stream, as well as read messages and receive notifications, all from their desktop.

The Inbox API allows you to access your users’ messages, once they grant your application the new read_mailbox extended permission. This lets your applications provide an interface for users to view their messages. For example, your application could pop up an alert when the user receives a new message.

To access information about a user’s Inbox, you’ll query any of three new FQL tables:

  • mailbox_folder: This table gives you information about a user’s folders; currently all users have three folders: Messages (inbox), Sent (outbox), and Updates.
  • thread: This table gives you information about specific threads. For example, you can get information about recipients of a thread, whether a group or event sent the thread, when it was last updated, the subject, whether it is currently unread, and more.
  • message: This table allows you to get information about each message in a thread. You can get information about who wrote the message, the content of the message and also information about the attachment to the message, if it exists, in the same format as attachments are returned in the stream.

While we currently don’t allow applications to send messages through this API, we’re always thinking about new functionality to offer through Facebook Platform.

To get started, as a developer you can access the Inbox APIs via the read_mailbox permission in order to develop and test your application. To launch your application to all users, please apply to the Inbox API whitelist here.

Application Attachments for Facebook Messages

We’ve simplified the way you can create application attachments that users can share with their friends through Facebook messages. This feature works only with the new Inbox, which a number of users have been testing. The updated Inbox will launch to all users in the coming weeks.

The new Inbox incorporates the same Publisher used to publish to the streams on the home page and profiles. We’ve enhanced the Publisher so it no longer requires you to create template bundles — you can now use the simplified attachment model that stream.publish uses. As we roll out the new Inbox over the next few weeks, we’ll deprecate the old message attachment process.

To integrate your applications into the new Inbox:

  1. Create a Publisher endpoint and enter its URL as the Attachment v2 Callback URL you specify on the Advanced tab in your application settings.
  2. In your Publisher integration, specify “attachment” for the content parameter, instead of “feed”.
  3. Test your attachments today with your test accounts on www.beta.facebook.com.

We’re still supporting existing Publisher integrations that use the “feed” content type, but you should find the flexibility of stream attachments easier to use, as they’re more universal throughout Facebook.

Notifications API

The notifications API lets your applications retrieve your users’ notifications to use within your application. We’ve created a notification FQL table and two new API methods, notifications.getList and notifications.markRead, that let you retrieve structured information about notifications and mark them as read.

The new FQL table contains the same information used to generate the instant notifications you see on the Facebook website. We’ve opened up that data so now you can create better experiences for your users. For example, you can now create new desktop experiences integrating notifications, letting your users stay in touch with their friends and other connections. For example, Facebook for Adobe AIR now uses the notifications API and Inbox API to display notifications and new message alerts alongside the application window.

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