Business, Social Media
& Online Marketing

Ping.fm is a very cool application that updates your status on all of your social networks and instant messaging services from a single web portal. Instead of visiting each site separately to update your information, go to Ping.fm and update them all. In addition, Ping works with programs like to make syndicating content even easier.
Ping.fm works with over 42 different social networks . There are too many to list them all but here are some of the main ones:

Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Skype, MSN, Google Gtalk, Ning, Delicious, Blogger, …

I can admit it – when I started out in a career in sales, I was that cheesy guy using every hard close in the book. There I was, 17 years old working at Future Shop, peddling cell phones and fax machines. I was using sales techniques with names like the columbo or the puppy dog close. What’s worse is that  because I was selling low priced goods, my techniques were mildly successful. This only fed my ego and further convinced me that I was on the right path, …

Hootsuite is a free online application that helps you manage your social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Ping.fm from one easy to use dashboard.
Their application let’s you send updates to all of your networks from one dashboard and provides  a scheduling function so you can time new updates. It also lets you group and monitor incoming information from your social networks. This way, you know what’s being said about you, your company and your industry on your networks in real time.
Because HootSuite is connected to you …

Great video by Radian6 on how social media is changing business through personal interaction and instant feedback.

If you’ve ever tried to add a stylish e-mail signature to your Gmail or Hotmail account, you probably weren’t successful. That’s because you can’t add html to many web based e-mail programs. That is, until now!
I recently found an extremely useful free Firefox plugin called Wisestamp. With it, you can create e-mail signatures like these in seconds.

Wisestamp lets you add all kinds of goodies to your e-mail signature such as your company logo, social media profiles,  Instant messaging usernames and even a RSS feed option that lets you post a …

Building your company brand has been in practice for years.  But, the Internet has drastically changed the way that your brand should be managed today. Successful companies and people understand that their target audience needs to identify with their brand. Social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook allow you to communicate with your audience in real time and establish a personal connection . It also provides you with a great tool to monitor what others are saying about your brand.
How can you build your brand using social media …

Social networking  sites are one of the most revolutionary developments of the 21st century. On sites like Facebook and Linkedin, people everywhere are building online communities to share their interests and passions with others. Everyday, millions of people from across the world interact with one another on social networking websites through a variety of ways, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
More and more businesses are making use of this new technology. They are using social media to create brand awareness, reach prospective clients, manage online reputation and build brand …

Do you want to tweet more while spending less time managing your Twitter account?
Twitter is a fantastic way to promote your blog and develop a network of readers. It’s also time consuming to send a steady flow of content to Twitter.
These seven tools are great time savers! With them, you can send Twitter updates, schedule your posts, and find new profiles to follow based on keywords.
TweetLater – Schedule tweets so your Twitter page is always updated, send auto-replies to new followers thanking them for following you, auto-follow profiles based on …

Start creating effective ads on Facebook like the one to the left in minutes!
It’s also easy to do.
Their one page ad builder allows you to choose the demographic you want to attract, input your title & description, and upload images with a simple user interface.
Choose how much you want to spend daily and the maximum you are willing to spend per click. Any time you can test an advertising campaign for $1.00 a day, it’s worth investigating!
Because there is so much demographic data available through Facebook, you can narrowly …

You’ve likely seen these icons to the left when visiting many of your favorite blogs. These tools allow readers to share information on social media sites.
If you see these icons at the bottom of a blog post, click on them and they will expand to show different social networking and bookmarking sites. Choose a site like Facebook or Twitter, and it will give you the option to post the link and write a comment on your profile. With ShareThis, you can even enter a phone number and text someone an …