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What is a QR code?

Posted in Our Blog on Saturday, February 18th, 2012 at 2:25 pm No Comments

A QR code is also known as a quick response code.  This is an image that contains a matrix barcode. This code has a large capacity to store information. The code was originally created and used to track…

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What is Twitter?

Posted in Our Blog on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 5:17 pm No Comments

Twitter was launched in 2006 as a social networking service that seemed simpler than Facebook.  The service lets you create a profile with a simple bio and picture.  It is a microblogging service that only lets you post limited content. The magic number is 140.  A tweet, your thought…

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What Is Foursquare?

Posted in Our Blog on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 8:54 am No Comments

Many people have heard of or use Foursquare. It is becoming more and more relevant with over 15 million users worldwide.  Businesses are jumping at the chance to connect to their actual customers or visitors.  This user-friendly application started off as a way to let your friends know where…

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What are Hashtags?

Posted in Our Blog on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 10:10 am 1 Comments

What are Hashtags?

Hashtags were created by Twitter users to categorize their tweets. A hashtag is the # symbol. It is placed before a word to mark keywords or topics within a tweet. When the hashtag is searched in the search bar, the tweets about that topic are more…

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What Is LinkedIn?

Posted in Our Blog on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 10:20 am No Comments

What is LinkedIn?:

LinkedIn is a professional networking platform geared toward gaining contacts and employment opportunities. The content on ones profile includes employment history and skills. This is a platform for one’s virtual resume. The ‘friending’ process is stricter than other social networks like Facebook in that LinkedIn asks you…

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Marketing: Then and Now

Posted in Our Blog on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011 at 9:17 am No Comments

Then: Businesses used to tell customers what the company wanted them to hear. Firms would spend months on advertising campaigns and in the end PUSH out content that they believed would be interesting to their customers. Most times these push strategies had ROI as their main goal….

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Social Media CliffsNotes: What Every Business Should Know About Social Media

Posted in Featured Blog, Our Blog on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 12:05 pm No Comments

Read our social media CliffsNotes, containing answers to, why a business should be using social media, major social networks explained, and what not to do when running your social media campaigns. For our younger audience that may not be familiar with the term “CliffsNotes”,

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Making A Web Site For Your Business

Posted in Featured Blog, Our Blog on Monday, July 25th, 2011 at 4:54 pm No Comments

How is your business coping with the current recession? Are you able to hold on to your profits? A lot of people have lost businesses because of this recession. You need to make sure that you aren’t losing any profits. You can do a lot for your business. We…

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Are you using it right? Social Media that is.

Posted in Our Blog on Sunday, July 17th, 2011 at 4:49 pm No Comments

So what is the key to having phenomenal business success online?  Given that there are up to 2 billion eyeballs or 4 billion if you’re counting them as 2 at any one time on the World Wide Web, why isn’t it like taking candy from a baby? If you…

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Social Media Statistics: More reasons to use Social Media

Posted in Our Blog on Friday, July 15th, 2011 at 1:59 pm No Comments

Social Media

  •  Social Media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity.
  • Years to reach 50 Million users. Radio 38 years,  tv 13 years, while it only took the internet 4 years.
  • 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
  • 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations while only 14% trust advertisements.
  • 93% of…
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