Facebook to Push Page Redesign on March 30, 2012

If you are absolutely in love with the way things look and work on your Facebook Page now, try to detach. Changes are coming; don’t they always–especially on Facebook. This time, as you can see in the screen shot of FastPivot’s FB page (see the original for comparison) to the right, the new redesign will
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Who Wants to Be First to Add a "LinkedIn" Follow Button to Their Yahoo! Store?

According to LinkedIn’s February 27th, 2012 blog post, the long overdue “LinkedIn follow button” is out. Facebook, Twitter, and even Pininterest all came out with their follow buttons fairly quickly, but for some reason LinkedIn didn’t. Maybe they thought the “share on LinkedIn” button was enough. But many internet users feel that level of engagement
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Popular "How People Use Facebook" Infographic Interesting, But Outdated?

This morning, GetElastic Blog emailed subscribers an infographic via OnlineSchools.com, which illustrated how people use Facebook. To briefly summarize the infographic’s (on right) key points : 1 in 13 people on the planet are active on Facebook (500 mil total. Granted this number was tallied back in 2011, but even with a mass exodus or
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Why Yahoo! Store Merchants Should Add Pinterest Buttons ASAP

According to Pinterest’s about page, this virtual pin board: Lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Pinterest requires an invite to start,
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When Facebook Fails, A Reminder to Diversify

Here’s the scenario: You’ve spent countless time building your Facebook Page, because you know social media is the marketing of the future. In fact, to really make social media work you’ve got to be there posting and interacting everyday. And you’ve even added Facebook link icons to all your webpages, product pages, blogs, etc. etc.
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SEO Booster: Let Breaking News Guide Your Blog

SEO is a difficult code to crack, but there are ways–and it doesn’t have to be black or even grey hat. One white hat SEO strategy many don’t consider is coinciding their blogs with breaking news. If you can get something out within hours of the story breaking, then it’s possible to ride the news
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Case Study: How One New Blogger Increased Traffic 10-Fold in One Day

It has become popular for ecommerce merchants to start blogs to improve search engine ranking and for marketing purposes of engaging and updating customers. Everyone seems to initially believe: Hey I’ve got a great product, and once I start blogging everyone will tune in. Let’s do it! However the reality is blog after blog yields
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Facebook Stomps Out Sending Messages to "All" Fans

Until recently, internet retail marketers were discovering blogs like this, How To Send A Message To Facebook Fans and When To Use It . It’s always fun to learn new and useful Facebook tips, especially when it comes to how to send messages to all Fans on a Facebook page. What a great feature! That’s
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New Trend: It's Cool to Quit Facebook, Are You Next?

According to a Dec. 13, 2011 NYTimes.com article, Shunning Facebook and Living to Tell About It ,there’s a Facebook fade happening out there that might just turn the tide on Facebook. After all, as the article reports, “The number of Americans who visited Facebook grew 10 percent in the year that ended in October —
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