To Be or Not To Be Social

Social Media Marketing on February 2nd, 2012 2 Comments

Human beings are social by nature. They have always lived socially since their existence. Common interests and relationships bind them together. This concept of living together is very much inherent to their nature. And, with the coming of social media sites, this idea has reached an all together new level. Social media has enabled all [...]

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Impact of Social Media on the Traditional Media Landscape

Social Media Marketing on January 25th, 2012 1 Comment

‘Professionals create the Content – Amateurs consume it.’ Since the invention of the printing press hundreds of years ago until a decade back, this statement had defined how media functions. Be it books, newspaper, radio, film or television, one and all followed the same mantra. This basically resulted in a kind of monopoly that these [...]

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Is Facebook Copying Google+?

Social Media Marketing on August 19th, 2011 No Comments

Just 15 minutes back, we noticed a sudden change in Facebook profiles. The differences which we noticed are: Images seems larger (As in Google+) And a ticker, which is showing all my friend’s & page’s live feeds in it. As you have already seen in some of the websites, blogs, and RSS feeds, Ticker is [...]

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“What, Who & How To” of Social Media Copywriting

Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0 on August 27th, 2010 Comments Off

Content, as they say, is still king. Copy plays a stellar role in any social media marketing campaign. You may have the best social media strategy and incorporate them in your blogs, tweets, scraps and pretty much anything that is social; however, without the proper social copywriting or content writing strategy and technique, all will [...]

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Build your network with LinkedIn

Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0 on August 18th, 2010 Comments Off

This is not my first write up on LinkedIn and its capabilities and utilities in a highly connected and networked world that we live in. However, in all my previous discourses, I emphasized and stressed on taking a holistic approach to effective marketing with LinkedIn.Unlike other social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc, LinkedIn not [...]

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Volatile Online Marketing objectives

Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing on June 22nd, 2010 Comments Off

In today’s time, every business house, irrespective of size, is definitely looking at social networking channels to market itself. Initially, when social media sites came into being, the idea was to network, gossip, connect and share. They were nothing less than a revolution in communication and brought people closer. Marketers have discovered great potential in [...]

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Guide to Online Reputation Management

Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0 on April 14th, 2010 Comments Off

Imagine, you start your day sitting down with a cup of coffee… you search your company name online and the top result is someone slamming your company, your brand or you. I am not kidding, it’s very possible that conversations about you and your company are taking place across the web on various social networks [...]

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How to use LinkedIn for promoting your Business

Social Media Marketing on April 5th, 2010 2 Comments

When I am talking about Social Media, particularly for the small businesses and for whom the time to invest in less and want to jump into social media quickly being on one or two social media site out of continuously growing social media tail, then I’d suggest them to try LinkedIn or Facebook, the truth [...]

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Best Social Media sites to begin with

Social Media Marketing on February 15th, 2010 3 Comments

I recently wrote an article on Social Media Marketing- Boon or a Bane, and this blog post follows up on that by offering a list of the best social media websites to start your business idea with. There are a great deal of social media sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them [...]

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Making Sense of SMM (Social Media Marketing)

Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0 on August 18th, 2009 2 Comments

Everyone is talking about ‘Social Media’ these days. SMM is the buzzword in the town. Media is riding on the ‘Social Media’ boom to catch the eyeballs. Yet, most of us are grappling to leverage the ‘true’ value of Social Media Marketing. Isn’t that expected? Today, SMM is going through the journey, which SEO (Search [...]

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