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A Brand Monitoring Tool Better Than Google Alerts: Mention

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on April 8th, 2013

They’re saying it’s Google Alerts on steroids. French startup Mention claims to be the next great thing in social media marketing and brand monitoring (and with half a million users already, its looking to fulfill that prophecy). And Google Alerts, a service that has not been updated or touched by Google since 2003) right now does…

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Boomtown Beta Testing: Social Media and Travel Come Together with TripTease

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on March 8th, 2013

The buzz line for the newest site we’re beta testing is: “brings together the best of photography, writing, and social media to be the next big thing in travel reviews.” We love social and how it’s being used to make every day tasks easier, so we were happy to get earlybird access to TripTease.com, the newest travel…

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How To Use LinkedIn To Recruit The Best Candidate For Your Company

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on March 6th, 2013

Companies looking to get the most out of social media marketing should turn their sites (and budgets) to LinkedIn, the best social media platform for B2B or B2C companies, especially when it comes to hiring. To find the best candidate for an open position in your company, you first need to make sure you are…

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LinkedIn Answers: 10 Alternatives for Brand Marketing With High Page Ranks

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 19th, 2013

You can tell by the posts upon posts about using LinkedIn Answers for B2C and B2B brand marketing that no Internet marketers or social media experts expected this message from LinkedIn only a few weeks ago: “As of January 31, 2013, the LinkedIn Answers feature will be retired from LinkedIn. We’ll be focusing our efforts…

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Twitter Local For Business: Watch Our ON AIR Webinar Now

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 15th, 2013

Click below to see our pre-recorded webinar on finding local customers for local businesses. These are our professional tips and tricks from using geo-targeted keywords to find live conversations, Twitter users and the most influential people in your area that can be future customers!   Comment to talk to us and ask any questions! Click…

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Video Marketing with Youtube: Using Social Media To Get More Traffic

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 12th, 2013

There are thousands of articles about how to optimize your Youtube channel and your Youtube videos for more views. But you may be missing a huge step: using your other social media sites to direct traffic to your best videos, the most important part of video marketing! As a company that started as a Philadelphia…

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Vine, Twitter’s New Video Sharing Service, Is #NSFW

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 11th, 2013

Human advancement of late seems to be continuously used for porn. The case is no different for Twitter’s new video-sharing service, Vine, a would-be trending topic on all Internet marketing blogs and would have probably spurred various tutorials, webinars and even some eBooks for those looking to learn “How To Brand Your Company On Vine”…

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Internet Marketers Are At Risk For An Unhealthy Lifestyle

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 6th, 2013

Internet marketers, web designers, programmers and mostly anyone tied to their computer at a desk all day are taking up a very dangerous job; leaving your body sedentary for 8 hours and more is causing many of serious health problems. According to the Harvard Business Review, “extended sitting slows the body’s metabolism affecting things like…

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Twitter Falls Short for Small Business Says WSJ

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on February 5th, 2013

About a month ago we posted Why Business Insider Is Wrong About Twitter And Retail when the publication argued that Twitter contributed to no Black Friday sales. Now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is not the best social media tool for small business owners. According to the 835 business owners surveyed earlier this month…

The Complete List Of Video Sharing and Hosting Sites

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on January 31st, 2013

Everyone knows Youtube as a video search engine and hosting site, but what about other sites you can post your videos to get more traffic to your site? Link builders and video marketers rejoice! Below is the complete list of the best video hosting and video sharing sites to post your branded video content. These…

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Filter The Noise: Finding the Conversations You Need on Twitter with Advanced Search Techniques

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on January 11th, 2013

Staring at your Twitter or Hootsuite screen, watching the waterfall of conversations come in is not dissimilar to a first-time NYC tourist standing on the corner of Canal and Broadway. Who do you listen to in the crowd of voices? And how do you find what you need when there are a million fake handbags…

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What Video Chat Means For Social Media Marketing

  • Posted by Caitlin Connors on January 2nd, 2013

As a Philadelphia web design company that loves SEO, SMO, PPC and any Internet trend or tool or acronym that you can use to benefit your business, we love keeping watch over what new trends are taking over and what platforms are able to keep afloat. The newest trend we’ve noticed (nay, adopted) is video…