Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’



`12 Days of Christmas’ Items’ Cost Nears $100,000

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the unlikely event that your Christmas list this year includes every item mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” be prepared to pay nearly $100,000. Trying to buy the 364 items repeated in all the song’s verses — from 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree — would [...]

Facebook Passes eBay in Value, Becoming No. 3 U.S. Web Company

Facebook Inc.’s estimated worth is now bigger than Ebay Inc.’s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors. Facebook’s stock is trading at more than $16 on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, said a person familiar with the latest [...]

Google to add In-Flight WiFi for Holidays

If you want to fly this holiday season, and happen to have a ticket booked on AirTran, Delta, or Virgin America, you can thank Google for in flight Wi-Fi access! Google Chrome has teamed up once again with the travel industry to provide Gogo Inflight Internet to passengers from November 20, 2010 to January 2, [...]

We live in a Twitter-iffic world….

Twitter is slowly revolutionizing the way in which we communicate. You can tell which of your Facebook friends also have Twitter, and use it regularly. If you think about it, you don’t realize how long your normal, everyday thoughts are, until you are given a limit of characters in which to express that thought. I [...]

What is it about babies?

They are cute, funny, adorable, and they have the uncanny ability to sell things. They are better sales people than the most seasoned veterans. How is it that you would trust a baby to sway your investment decisions, but have a hard time trusting the 50+ year old suit and tie? Why is it that [...]

GrabTheDeal.com

Interactivity Marketing announces the launch of Grab The Deal is slated for November 1, 2010. Signup to stay in the loop at http://www.GrabTheDeal.com

Undervaluing Social Media for Customer Service

While social media is on the rise (acquiring new customers and increasing brand awareness), few brands are using social media channels for customer-service objectives. Surveyed top-brand senior-level marketing executives consider the most important objectives for social media to be: • New Customer Acquisition: 30.10% • Drive Brand Awareness: 26.50% • Retain Existing Customers: 24% • [...]

Generating Business from Location-Based Social Networks

The time has come for those of you business owners who aren’t utilizing location-based social networks to jump on board. Google Local, Twitter Places, and now Facebook allow users to “check in” to a location and reveal their thoughts/opinions. Equally impressive is the influential ability of one customer; one good review can lead to another, and so on and so forth. Before you know it, you’ve generated a large amount of business from your customers’ opinions.

Facebook Introduces ‘Places’ Feature

Statuses, updates, posts: while they may let you know what a friend is doing, they don’t have the ability to inform exactly where they are. Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t put you in even closer contact with your friends, they went ahead and introduced the Places feature: mobile GPS technology that announces an exact [...]