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Email Is Not Dead

May 17, 2010
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We’ve all become so caught up in the social media hype that a lot of people have forgotten the origin of the social web we so enjoy right now. I’m talking about the e-mail. How, you might ask, is the email the origin of social media? Well, it is one of the pioneer communication channels [...]

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Using Social Media In Product Development

May 9, 2010
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Unlike big companies who already have their reputation working for their, small and medium-scale businesses rely mostly on how good their products are to make sure that people keep coming back and doing business with them. As social media practitioners, we advise such business entities to take notice of the benefits social media can offer [...]

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DIY Social Media Marketing

May 6, 2010
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You’ve probably read a whole lot of articles telling you that you can do social media marketing through popular sites like Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter. Although some people find it easy to use such sites, some people think that it’s a confusing process. Well, not to worry, there are simpler ways to do social [...]

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Bring Your Social Media Marketing Strategy To The Next Level

May 4, 2010
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Small businesses may start out small, but every SME owner has dreams of having their business take off and get bigger. And for those who have already started using basic social media marketing strategies to get their business noticed on the World Wide Web, it’s about time we take things up a notch higher. If [...]

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Social Media Starter Pack Tools for Small Businesses

April 29, 2010
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Small businesses that are in the process embracing social media as a marketing strategy don’t really have much of an idea as to where to start or what tools to use. And in as much as it’s easy to just hire a social media personnel to do things for some small businesses, some don’t have [...]

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How To Add Value To Your Customers

April 6, 2010
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If there’s one thing businesses are taught to do once they set their first step in social media marketing, it’s engaging their customers. What better way to do that than by adding value to the relationship you’re building with your patrons. How exactly do you do that?

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Things To Consider When Hiring A Corporate Blogger

March 19, 2010
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So you’ve finally decided to get your business a blog. That’s good. You have a nice layout ready for you blog, as well as a concept for the niche blog you’re going to have, but then again you stumble upon a really big hurdle. You’re finding it hard to manage the business and provide content [...]

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Stepping Up From the Bottom Pile

March 18, 2010
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A start-up blog may be difficult to get out in public. Unless you’ve got influential friends promoting your blog on their sites, you’re bound to land at the bottom pile. Bottom pilers don’t really get much traffic. They get an occasional spike on pageviews, but not really a lot of readers. It’s a sad fate, [...]

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Aim For Strong Relationships In Twitter

March 17, 2010
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With so many people joining Twitter every day, it’s tempting for corporate Twitter users to just mass follow people and pray that they somehow end up as patrons of the business. But the thing is it should be like this. In social media, you don’t just aim for casual acquaintances. What you should thrive for [...]

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Social Media Channels For Creative People

March 11, 2010
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More and more people are starting to express themselves creatively. Artists of different media are popping up left and right trying to make a name for themselves. But even if you want to make it out in this cruel world on their own, it would be easier if you belong to a group or organization [...]

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Connection Disconnection: The Darker Side of Social Media

February 12, 2010
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You know how we always talk about how great social media is for personal and professional relationship. But then again, people tend to forget that there are always two sides to a coin. In as much as I love using social media to connect with distant friends or share information with online buddies and co-workers, [...]

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Why Social Media Will Not Work In Philippine Election 2010

January 5, 2010
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Many of our politicians wanted to do an Obama this coming election and they are looking into using social media to catapult them into success. During the US election, Obama and his staff did become masters of social media. From creating websites, using social networking, micro blogging and mobile, they were able to send the [...]

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Social Media For The Food Cart Franchise Business

December 28, 2009
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If you visit the Philippines, you will notice that we have numerous and humongous malls scattered in the cities. We Filipinos love shopping and just hanging around with our friends. It relieves the daily stress. Inside these malls, especially in the food court, you will see food carts selling a variety of food ranging from [...]

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Facebook Apps For Your Business

December 7, 2009
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Facebook‘s a very popular social networking sites. Its millions after millions of users all agree that it’s a really great place to hang out at. Businesses are all taking advantage of this fact and are digging more and more into doing business in it. If you had asked, like, days ago, you’d probably get responses [...]

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Getting Addicted With Social Media

November 6, 2009
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You and I both know that social media sites are fun places to be in. There are a lot of things for you to do in the sea of social media sites available. If you’re one who’s fond of learning new things, social bookmarking sites are a great place to discover stuff from other blogs [...]

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The Wave Called Google Wave

October 31, 2009
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Last month, Google started sending out invites to 100,000 beta users and fortunately, I received one. Yay Google! As always, it was a very impressive application that brings collaboration to the next level. Still in beta, developers can now create their own gadgets. For those of you who just woke up because of all these [...]

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From A Special Features Writer Of Business World

October 26, 2009
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A couple of days ago, I got an email message from Katrina Alvarez of Business World. Unfortunately, since I was on a business trip, I had limited access to my Inbox and wasn’t able to answer her immediately. Call me a slacker. Hah! But I wanted to share this to you guys and some people [...]

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Ban Social Media Sites In The Workplace

October 21, 2009
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Social media sites are fun and informative. However, it has the tendency to eat up time, especially if you become engrossed in the hundreds of different games you can play in these sites. Many business owners have observed that this has a significant effect on their worker’s productivity – mostly in a bad, distracting way. [...]

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Creating A Strategic Social Network Portfolio

October 20, 2009
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With so many social media sites popping out all over the web like mushrooms, you can’t help but get caught in the frenzy of joining just about all of those sites. But do you really have to? The thing you have to remember is that quality trumps quantity any time of day. You can join [...]

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