Archive for April, 2010
Use your own judgment over that of experts
Posted by Rob Brideson in Social Media Marketing on April 19, 2010
You might be asking whether or not you should follow this tip, since I’m suggesting that you follow your own intuition, rather than my advice; however, in all seriousness, when it comes to building your brand online through social marketing devices, it is important that you think about your own business, rather than the generic [...]
Encourage existing customers to use your Facebook fan page
Posted by Rob Brideson in Facebook, Social Media Marketing on April 16, 2010
There are two benefits to encouraging existing customers to become a fan of your business on Facebook. The first is that you can slowly move away from paid mediums such as reliance on bulk mail and autoresponders to disseminate important information to customers. The second major benefit is that you can market new products and [...]
Internet 101
Posted by Rob Brideson in How to on April 16, 2010
One of the most comprehensive guides to the internet that I have come across over the years is Internet 101. As stated on the Internet 101 home page, “Internet 101 was created for those who just want to know the basics. This guide will provide you with enough knowledge to have fun on the Internet, [...]
Lure in followers by posting free, useful information
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Facebook, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, YouTube on April 9, 2010
One of the best approaches you can take to social media marketing is to attract potential followers by providing something truly useful. For instance, you could provide free information about something related to your niche. You could provide: Links to important news related to your niche Commentaries on important happenings within your niche Links to [...]
Put a thumbnail photo in your social networking site profiles
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Facebook, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, YouTube on April 8, 2010
No matter what social network you are using, it’s always a good idea to place a thumbnail photo of yourself (or at least your business’s logo) where possible. In general, people will be hesitant to interact with profiles that don’t have faces attached to them. Of course, this is a personal decision and is ultimately [...]
Remove spyware and adware effectively
Posted by Rob Brideson in How to on April 7, 2010
If you want to remove spyware and adware programs from your PC, you might need a good removal software tool to do it for you. Spyware and adware has become more and more sophisticated as more and more malicious programmers try to devise of ways for people to get rid of their malicious computer codes. [...]
Filter incoming blackberry email
Posted by Rob Brideson in How to on April 6, 2010
Just recently email spam to my blackberry was becoming a bit of a problem. Now naturally you would expect your hosting provider’s spam assassin email filtering facilities to take care of this as logically it does it for your normal email in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Windows Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird or other clients. [...]
Create a Linkedin.com profile
Posted by Rob Brideson in Social Media Marketing on April 2, 2010
If you’re not familiar with LinkedIn, you might be surprised to find out that they’ve already collected information about you; and have used it to construct a profile that might include some or all of the following information: 1) where you went to college 2) what jobs you hold or have held in the past [...]
Create a tutorial series on YouTube
Posted by Rob Brideson in Social Media Marketing, YouTube on April 1, 2010
There are many ways in which you can use YouTube improperly; and get nothing out of it. In fact, that is what most businesses do when they try to make money off of YouTube or video content in general. If you decide to do this, I personally suggest that you start by creating a tutorial [...]
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Promoting your business through blog commenting
Posted by Rob Brideson in Blogging, Social Media Marketing on April 8, 2010
Many marketers believe that the only way to get traffic to a blog is to post frequently, ping, and optimise for natural search engine traffic. In fact, one of the greatest ways to generate traffic via blogs doesn’t involve any of this. The approach I’m talking about is simple: get direct traffic from other blogs [...]
blog commenting, Promoting your business
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