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Facebook Taking Over Social Media? Facebook is now making money and has topped over 300 million peoplenjoining.  Since the beginning, Facebook was started in a dorm roomnfive years ago. It has emerged from there as the internets mostnpopular online meeting place.  It has increasingly challenged bothnGoogle and Yahoo.  Facebook has revamped their search engines lastnmonth, [...]Related posts:<ol><li><a
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src="" alt="" align="left" />Facebook Taking Over Social Media? Facebook is now making money and has topped over 300 million peoplenjoining.  Since the beginning, Facebook was started in a dorm roomnfive years ago. It has emerged from there as the internets mostnpopular online meeting place.  It has increasingly challenged bothnGoogle and Yahoo.  Facebook has revamped their search engines lastnmonth, users have tripled and it is only going to get bigger. Because of this, Facebook will have a higher confidence on workingnwith investors. And that they could possibly go public in late 2010 ornin 2011.  Their even exploring more ways to make the service performnfaster. If your not on Facebook yet, now is the time to join.  It is reallyneasy and it is free. Just go to Facebook.com and put in your profile.nA good picture of yourself is really necessary, as Facebook is a placento connect with people and they want to know what you look like. Justnlike you will want to know who your are connecting with. You can upload pictures of your family, travels you have done, placesnyou have seen, anything to let people know you are a real person, andnwhat you do.  This will draw people to you with the same interest asnyou have.  Once their interest is peeked, they will want to get tonknow you better including what you do, what type of business you arenin. You can post updates on Facebook to let people know what your dailynactivities are.  Maybe your having a party, or a big event is comingnup you might think they want  to attend. You can even add things likena good book you just read or a home business opportunity you just camenacross. Maybe even a cruise your about to go on. It is real important to keep Facebook as a social place, not justnabout business.  Do not try to promote your business, let your newnfound friends find out for them selves what you do. You can postnthings that are related to helping people in business, like ways tonadvertise. You can also join groups that have to do with differentnbusiness. Or make up a group of your own and have people join it. Make Facebook fun for you and others and you are well on your way tonmaking tons of friends and finding out tons of information that is outntheir in the internet world.</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="Facebook Taking Over Social Media?" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/facebook/facebook-taking-over-social-media"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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/> </a></div><p>Whether you run a blog in your free time, do some online marketing on the side or are a full-time web marketer, you have probably come across several offers for products and software claiming to help you.</p><p>Many programs out there claim that they can help you get more visitors to your website, build lots on backlinks for better rankings in search engines, write more and/or better content, add tons of followers to your twitter account and much more.</p><p>Annoyingly, the sales-pages for these programs are often elusive about what exactly the software will do for you. It’s often more about how great your life will be once you hit the “order” button and less about what you’ll actually get. At least, that’s been my impression.</p><p>That’s why I decided to do a quick overview of what kind of software is most commonly available and whether or not this kind of thing is worth the money.</p><p><strong>Article Submission Software:</strong></p><p>This type of software is generally targeted at article marketers. What these programs do is log into lots of different online article directories and submit your article to each of them. This can be very useful for getting more exposure for your articles and also for gaining backlinks to your website.</p><p>This type of tool is worth it if you write many articles. To get the most out of it, make sure that the software features automatic registration to the article directories, automatic email confirmation and basic article spinning functionality.</p><p><strong>Directory or Search Engine Submission:</strong></p><p>This is often offered either as a software package or as a service. What this does is submit your website URL to lots of different search engines (often, they submit to hundreds or even thousands) and website directories (websites featuring nothing but categorized links to other websites).</p><p>Quite frankly, this type of service is almost never worth the money. It’s not much use to you if your site is submitted to some obscure search engine in Lithuania and backlinks from website directories are practically worthless (with the exception of the DMOZ and Yahoo directories).</p><p><strong>Bookmarking Software:</strong></p><p>This type of program submits bookmarks of your web-pages to many different social-bookmarking sites like digg, mister-wong, diigo, mixx and many more. The software automates the task of signing up, logging in and submitting your bookmarks and can save a lot of time.</p><p>These programs are generally good, but only if used correctly. If you simply use them to spam all of your pages to as many sites as possible, you’ll quickly see your accounts banned. So, if you go for a program like this, make sure this issue is addressed and there is some good guidance (documentation or video tutorials) offered along with the software.</p><p><strong>Website Analysis Software:</strong></p><p>These kinds of programs come in many shapes and sizes. Generally, they allow you to analyze any website you want in-depth. For example, they might show you how many backlinks a website has, where those links are coming from, how many of it’s pages are indexed on Google and so on.</p><p>The point of all this is to allow you to assess your competitor’s strength before you move into a new market. You can find out in detail what a page has going for it and why it’s ranking well and with that information you can see what you need to do to outperform that page.</p><p>This type of software is invaluable to an Internet marketer, in my opinion. I would never move into a new market without having spent some time analyzing my competition with such a program.</p><p><strong>Keyword Research Tools:</strong></p><p>These are often similar or in the same package as the analysis tools mentioned above. The purpose of such a program is to help you find an ideal keyword to target with a new website or article. You can see how many searches, results and competing pages there are for any given keyword and filter the results to your needs.</p><p>It’s not essential to pay for a keyword research tool, since you can use the one offered by Google for free. However, a good tool can make research a lot easier and so paying for it can be justified if it’s good enough.</p><p><strong>General Automation Tools:</strong></p><p>You can find automation tools for almost everything. From simple little things that send a tweet out automatically, every time you publish a new post to your blog to complete systems that run an entire blog for you and automatically post content and add links and images, there’s hardly an online marketing rel</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="Internet Marketing Products – What Can They Do for You?" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/social-bookmarking/internet-marketing-products-%e2%80%93-what-can-they-do-for-you"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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src="http://www.vestadigital.com/UserFiles/Image/Blog/build-website-relationship.jpg" alt="Build Website Relationship" />Everyone wants to have a successful Internet website. In order to be successful you need visitors and in order to have visitors you need traffic. So how do you go about drive traffic? Type “How to increase Internet Traffic” into Google and you will get thousands of results. But we have made a little list of some ways you may not have thought of. Here are five unlikely ways to get more traffic to your website. Sure &#8211; there are many, many more. These are just a few to get you going.</p><h3>Write Articles</h3><p>Write 5-10 articles and submit them to popular article directories like EzineArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com and Buzzle.com. 5-10 articles won&#8217;t get you a lot of traffic, but you might find that article writing and marketing is not as hard as you thought. These articles can vary in size and scope. They should feature subjects related to your business or website.</p><h3>Create A Video For YouTube</h3><p>You don&#8217;t need a recording studio to make a video that gets thousands of views. You can use a phone these days. Take a look at some of the videos on YouTube that are getting a lot of traffic. Make a video yourself. Try to be creative, catchy and make it cut through the clutter. You will be surprised how many people watch it.</p><h3>Add A Link To Your Email Address</h3><p>Simply add a link for your website to the end of every email you send. It only takes 5 minutes to add a link to your email, and even if it just gets you one visitor, it was worth it.</p><h3>Classified Ads</h3><p>Write some ads and place them on Craigslist and on other classified ad websites. You will get traffic from these ads for months and you will also build your backlinks along the way. And the best thing is – they are free.</p><h3>Write a small eBook On Your Subject</h3><p>This is one of the best ways to advertise your website. Just write a small ebook that people can download and send to others for free. Make sure that you specify on the first page that your readers have complete and free give-away rights and that they can send the ebook to anyone at anytime. This is a surefire way to get more traffic to your website.<br
/> There are a lot of ways to get more internet traffic for your website – these are five you may not have thought of.</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="5 Unlikely Ways You Can Increase Your Internet Traffic" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/smo/5-unlikely-ways-you-can-increase-your-internet-traffic-3"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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We all notice that if you are a MySpace user, you&#8217;ve come across some profiles that you&#8217;re dying taboo to view but only to catch out that they&#8217;re set to private. You realize that the simply way to view their profile is to add them as a friend and [...]Related posts:<ol><li><a
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src="" alt="" align="left" /><p>Tips How to View Private Myspace Profiles</p><p><strong>Author:lesa</strong></p><p>We all notice that if you are a MySpace user, you&#8217;ve come across some profiles that you&#8217;re dying taboo to view but only to catch out that they&#8217;re set to private. You realize that the simply way to view their profile is to add them as a friend and hope they accept. Unfortunately, nearly of the time they don&#8217;t know you and they wont accept your friend request. However, I can show you how to view private profiles on MySpace.</p><p>Almost of Myspace Users are dying to know <strong>how to hack private myspace profiles</strong>. <strong>Hacking private Myspace Profiles</strong> is the way too old shcool now (and I don’t think there’s still a quite <strong>security hole on Myspace</strong> anymore). You must have noticed that the only way that you can <strong>view the private myspace profiles</strong> is by adding them as friends but most of you just want to do that in some particular reasons (even it’s mostly because you don’t know them). <strong>Viewing private Myspace profiles</strong> can be very tricky , since the security hole has been patched since 2006 , and you guys still want to hack private myspace profiles ?</p><p>I don’t blame you if you’re dreaming to be able to hack private myspace profiles. But please be realistic , there’s no trick that lasts forever.  But in this article , I want to share a trick that I found on someone’s blog about private myspace profiles. MySpace private profiles are a great feature, however they can be a real annoyance when it comes to find friends that you haven’t seen in a long time, or becoming friends with people that you think look cool. So many MySpace users have been trying to find a way around to view private MySpace profiles, but this private profile hindrance keeps stopping them.</p><p>Now,here’s the working method in <strong>hacking private myspace profiles 2009</strong> :</p><p>Firefox with Google Toolbar is 100% free, there is no catch or anything extra you have to do besides download it and run it. The best part is, you don’t have to replace your currentweb brouser like internet explorer with it. You can keep this and only run it when you want to view private MySpace profiles</p><p>Ok, now after clicking on the download link, you can download and run the program to install Firefox immediately by selecting the “Run” option. However, you also have the option to save the file to your computer by clicking on “save”. Then once downloaded on your computer, you can run the file by clicking on it where you saved it. It will then go through the installation process. Once the installation process is completed, you will need to run Firefox to get onto the internet. Then you will be able to start the MySpace private profile process.</p><p>First, sign into your MySpace account. Then go to the private MySpace profile that you are trying to view. Once you’re there, here is what you do:</p><p>- Click on the “View” link in on the menu bar in Mozilla Firefox.</p><p>- Next, in the drop-down, select “Page Style”.</p><p>- You will then see two options. Select “No Style” from these options.</p><p>It’s that simple!</p><p>for more information or just a genral; chat visit http://lesasbigbusiness.yolasite.com</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="How to view myspace profiles" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/forums/how-to-view-myspace-profiles"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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src="" alt="" align="left" /><p>f the rise of social media is any indicator, the web has brought us closer together. With social networks reconnecting us with former schoolmates and old friends while enabling us to form new relationships, the web is meant for collaboration. The web is a collaboration-based platform (think Wikipedia and Answers.com) where everyone works together to discover and create in the quest to move our collective thinking forward.</p><p><em>Elements</em><br
/> <strong>Partnerships </strong>– It’s a competitive world out there. However, in the digital environment it can be advantageous to be kind to your neighbor. Who knows, one day you might need them to help you make the next innovation.<br
/> <strong>Crowdsourcing</strong> — Social media platforms such as MySpace and Facebook are only skeletons without their users. Same goes for Wikipedia. It is the user-generated content from hundreds of millions of users that make the sites robust and functional. This crowdsourcing model has migrated into startup business models.</p><p><em>Examples</em><br
/> <strong>Google Wave</strong> — The new mail client allows for real-time collaboration. Each wave can be edited directly. It would be as if you could back into a sent e-mail and change it. By enabling users to build a document together, Google is eliminating the bulk and confusion of long e-mail threads and moving collaboration towards a Wikipedia-like model — where everyone can contribute a unique perspective.<br
/> <strong>Kiva</strong> — In four short years, Kiva has grown into a top digital influencer while making real impact. The crowdsourcing microfinancing organization recently reach $100 million in entrepreneurial loans. Through the innovative nonprofit crowdsourcing model, Kiva has been able to take a large bundle of small loans to help entrepreneurs in developing nations grow their small business. Think of it as financial collaboration, where lenders can give entrepreneurs startup funding to improve their family’s livelihood and further the economic development of their communities.<br
/> <strong> 99Designs </strong>– Beyond financing and information, crowdsourcing is being implemented in a variety of industries. 99Designs uses crowdsourcing in, you guessed it… design. Clients design a creative brief, set a budget then decide which designers to work with.</p><p><em>Prediction<br
/> </em>There will be many businesses that leverage the crowdsourcing business&#8230;</p><p>To read more about consumer tech trends, go to Sparxoo, a digital marketing, branding and business development blog.</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="Tech Trend: Collaboration" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/social-media/tech-trend-collaboration"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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/> </a></div><p>As we all know, the new year is a time to set goals and resolutions both professionally and personally. I think we have all seen the large crowd of newbies at the gym at the beginning of the year or heard the endless water cooler discussions about how people had just started a new diet. Usually these resolutions start strongly for the people commiting to them, then tend to fade away by later half of the first quarter of the year. Well I wanted to put together a list of resolutions for new or small businesses that are very important for the growth and long term success of the organization. This list is in no particular order.</p><p>1 ) <em><strong>Strengthen your social media channels</strong></em> &#8211; If your business does not have a strong social media presense by now, you really need to put together a social marketing plan in 2010. Socail media is here to stay and it is no longer optional for small businesses to participate in the various social mediums.  Here is a short list containing the minimum sites your organization should have a presence in:</p><p>-<strong>Facebook</strong> &#8211; The younger generation has been navigating away from Facebook and focusing more on other social networks like Ning.  However with more that 350 million active users, you should strongly consider Facebook as an advertising and/or networking mechanism for your business.</p><p>-<strong>Twitter</strong> &#8211; So are we tweeting or are we just twits? <img
src='http://www.opensocialblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> Well either way, consumers are now spoiled with the desire for real time information and direct access to merchants. They want to monitor your business moves and provide instant feedback while sipping lattes at Starbucks. Therefore keep your customers engaged with your business by linking them to your Twitter tweets.</p><p>-<strong>LinkedIn</strong> &#8211; Are you looking for a place to network with professionals and other businessmen? LinkedIn is the premier option for B2B networking and to help your business find effective partnerships.</p><p>-<strong>Wordpress </strong>- Humm&#8230;to blog or not to blog&#8230;.that is the question. Well I feel blogging is extremely important to a small business depending on the service or product offered. Why? It gives customers direct access to your thoughts on what you are or intend to offer them. That could help build some form of understanding of your business and hopefully lead them through your door.</p><p>Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8</p><p>2) <em><strong>Build stronger customer relationships</strong></em> &#8211; The times of operating your business without deep understanding our your customer&#8217;s needs are over. In the past, customers had limited information on a business, it&#8217;s practices, competition and products/services.  Now people can google you and your competition, get price quotes, and rate your company from their cell phone while waiting in line! The importance of strong customer knowledge and understanding continues to rapidly increase as the technology devices and infrastructure get better.</p><p>3) <em><strong>Use or obtain free software</strong></em> &#8211; Small businesses need to take full advantage of the open source software solutions and free product offerings.</p><p>- <strong>SugarCRM</strong> &#8211; The community edition of this software is free and good enough for a small business to track customer relationships.</p><p>- <strong>Moodle</strong> &#8211; This learning management system is free and great for a small business who wants to set up a online learning solution.</p><p>- <strong>Joomla</strong> &#8211; This content management system can be used to manage a small business web site and online marketing campaign.</p><p>- <strong>Microsoft Bizspark</strong> &#8211; Are you considering using Microsoft products and or software and your business is less than 3 years old? How would you like Microsoft software for free? Yes&#8230;I did say free. Check out Microsoft Bizspark and see if you qualify. We did <img
src='http://www.opensocialblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p><p>4) <em><strong>Prepare to go mobile</strong> </em>- As I mentioned earlier, there is so much you can do on a cell phone nowadays. The speeds of the cellular networks keep getting faster and faster and the phones themselves keep getting better and better. Getting your business in the mobile world is very important as this market continues to mature.</p><p>-<strong>iPhone Application</strong> &#8211; For $99 and a little elbow g</p> <script type="text/javascript" class="owbutton" src="http://onlywire.com/button" title="Top 2010 New Year Resolutions for Small Businesses" url="http://www.opensocialblog.com/social-media/top-2010-new-year-resolutions-for-small-businesses"></script> <p>Related posts:<ol><li><a
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