A list of articles to help those promoting their Business on social media to be more effective and waste less time.
One distinct way brands can network and discuss shared interests with employees, customers, or potential customers in real time is to participate in Twitter chats. A Twitter chat is a pre-arranged chat on Twitter through Twitter updates that include a predefined hashtag for each tweet to connect tweets together in a conversation. Twitter chats are …
For businesses that advertise on Facebook, it’s important to be able to determine the number of paid versus organic activities on your page in order to accurately measure organic growth. And since organic growth reveals successful tactics for building your audience, it can also be used to calculate your Facebook advertising budget. According to Facebook, …
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Based on information gleaned from News Feed optimization service Edgerank, the Facebook algorithm that decides which stories appear in each user’s newsfeed, of 50,000 posts by 1,000 Pages, organic reach per fan has steadily declined as shown below: Feb 2012 = 16% Sept 2013 = 12.60% Nov 2013 = 10.15% Dec 2013 = 7.83% Mar …
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One of the most effective ways to get the maximum bang for your buck out of your advertising dollar is to target ads to the demographic most likely to purchase your product or service. With Facebook’s recent launch of what the company calls hyper-local advertising, brick-and-mortar businesses can target ads to anyone who lives within …
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Last year, Pinterest began a test promoting pins that appeared in search results or category feeds on the web or in mobile apps. They functioned just like regular pins, only they had a special “promoted” label, along with a link. Pinterest began by promoting certain pins from a select group of partners. For their first …
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WhatsApp is an instant messaging subscription service for smartphones and selected feature phones that uses the internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video, and audio media messages as well as their location using integrated mapping features. WhatsApp is supported on most Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Nokia smartphones. …
The social networking site Reddit recently announced it has obtained $50 million in outside funding, and disclosed its lead investor as Sam Altman, along with Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital and Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz. Snoop Dogg Among Investors Of $50 Million In reddit The money will be used to hire more staff for product …
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Many advertisers target and track the performance of online ads with cookies, a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer’s hard drive when you access the web site. But marketers and advertisers complain that cookies are inaccurate, unreliable and don’t function properly on smartphones and tablets. Enter Atlas. Atlas, Facebook’s …
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One way to promote your business and build support for your band is to create a Facebook fan page. A fan page differs from a personal Facebook profile because fan pages are visible to everybody on the Internet. Anyone on Facebook can connect to and receive updates from a page by becoming a fan. Share …
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A classic example of the power social media wields over businesses involves an incident with the Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York. Recent media coverage revealed that the hotel fines couples $500 for every negative review posted any where online by one of their guests. Since a negative review on websites like Yelp …
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In order to maintain a competitive advantage, many small business owners have stepped up their efforts to collect and collate customer data so they can rapidly anticipate customer needs and provide them what they want. And the speed and quality of data collection has vastly improved because affordable software, such as the kind used by …
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With over 540 million monthly active users, Google Plus is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook, and is a great way to connect with prospective customers. Since the Google Plus audience spends more time reading Google Plus entries than those on Facebook and Twitter, Google Plus is the most advantageous social …
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For restaurants suffering from a decline in same-store sales and rising food costs, providing a takeout service is a great opportunity to increase revenue. Since you already have the staff, the recipes, the kitchen space, and customers, establishing a takeout service can add an additional revenue stream without significantly raising your standard cost of operation. …
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With sharp declines in same-store sales in both casual dining and fast-food restaurants, this year has been challenging for many restaurant owners. As a result of a drop in customer traffic, and rising food costs, restaurant owners are searching for ways to trim costs and increase sales. Some restaurants are broadening their menus and experimenting …
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During the first quarter of 2014, same-store sales in casual dining and fast-food restaurants were impacted by adverse weather conditions, stagnant unemployment rates, and shrinking GDP. “The weather was terrible, but also economic activity was slow,” said Malcolm M. Knapp, founder of industry data tracker Knapp-Track. “It wasn’t that people just didn’t go out to …
Take-Home Catering: An Untapped Gold Mine In Your Restaurant’s Kitchen Read More »
