20 Social Media Marketing Tips

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Social Media Marketing is much more than just adding your profile to LinkedIn and joining Facebook and Twitter. There’s a new breed of consumer out there looking to simplify their connections with others online. The Internet is an opportunity to create communication, get answers, find facts and data, research people, places, and things, get instants [...]

The Future is Social, Mobile and Local

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SMM – SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING The future success of global business is definitely Social, Mobile, and Hyper-local period.  Successful businesses and entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet and all its resources to remain on top of the social media marketing and advertizing game.  Sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and LinkedIn have long-term staying power and [...]

Twylah for Twitter Branded Pages

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Twylah offers and creates Twitter Business and Personal Brand Pages. Twylah consolidates and sorts out your tweets into an easy to read and understand page that will engage and keep your readers and followers longer.  The formatted page is cleaner and neater than trying to follow a twitter stream on your profile page or on [...]

How To Learn from Others’ Mistakes

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Some of us simply have to learn by doing.  Others have the ability to learn from watching others make mistakes.  Hopefully you’re one that learns from reading this, watching the video, and then applying what you learn in the next 5 minutes to a life-long process of trying to succeed! In this video, Scott Stratten [...]

Adding Social Media Buttons and Icons – Pushing Your Buttons

Social Media Buttons and Icons – Is Someone Pushing Your Buttons? During these past few weeks, since adding the “Signature” option to ActiveRain posts, I’ve received so many requests, calls, and emails regarding how to add “Social Media Buttons and Icons” to the footers of Blog Posts.  You’ve probably seen many of the various types [...]

Celebrating Four Years On ActiveRain

It was February of 2007 when I wrote my first Blog post here on ActiveRain.  Hardly seems like four years could have gone by this quickly.  I realized today that all the time and information I have contributed here is pale in comparison to all that I have learned and the relationships I have made.  [...]

How To Avoid Facebook Spam in Your Email

Ever feel like a fish in the water that just got hooked? If you’re biting, read on…. Face it, if you’re on Facebook, you’re getting email notifications constantly by those leaving comments or tagging you in videos and photos etc.  If you “” a comment by another member or friend on Facebook, you’re likely to [...]

32 Tweeter Twitter Tips

Do you use Twitter?If so, how? If not, why? Do you even need to be on Twitter? Since the birth of the site, these are age old questions that have been and will continually be asked regarding the popular micro-blogging social network. Millions are on Twitter, but how many use it effectively? The following tips [...]

Roost Now Provides Data From Zillow

Image via CrunchBase Some really exciting changes are happening at Roost Expanded Data for Your “Real Estate” Tab “Roost now provides data from Zillow as an improvement to the previous “Active Listing” data.  This set of aggregate charts provides average square foot & dollar amount per listing, median home value, home value distribution, year built, and [...]

Creating A Custom Twitter Background

How To Create A Custom Twitter Background Many Twitter users have a custom background for their personal or business profile page on Twitter.  There are many sites that offer FREE Twitter Backgrounds for your page, but have you considered creating one of your own that is unique and customized? In this video is the instructions [...]