Legions of online businesses are following the trend of integrating game mechanics into their products. Investors used to hear customer acquisition plans that included, “and we’re going to make it social” or “and we’re going to make it viral.” But lately, these pitches have changed to include, “and we’re going to use game mechanics” to [...]
10 Intriguing Twitter Statistics
Most businesses have realized the power of using Twitter as a marketing tool. The growing popularity of social media inside of business has spawned a whole new field of research. The following statistics were collected in recent studies and suggest Twitter is a powerful platform for business due to it’s ferocious growth and intriguing user [...]
New Facebook Allows FB Page Owners To Log In As FanPage
Huge announcement today from Facebook for anyone that has a fan page! The new FanPage/ Facebook Pages Design will allow owners of Fan Pages to log in and interact with the rest of the Facebook World as the FB Page. Many business owners have been finding it hard to build their Fan Pages. They were [...]
Brian Tracy Del Mar Event
Brian Tracy Live Event A rare opportunity to see Brian Tracy Live in San Diego… At NO CHARGE! Tuesday, February 8th, 7pm at Del Mar Marriott. Please fill out the contact form below to reserve your seat! Here is a note from Brian Tracy: I recently got back from Singapore where I went to follow [...]
Questions About SEO
The Importance of SEO Recently I was asked to answer a few questions for a newspaper about Search Engine Optimization. It was directed at small & medium sized business owners, which is my favorite segment, so I participated. Here are the questions and my answers…. Q: Importance of quality relevant content and how it helps [...]
The Young Entrepreneur Mega InfoGraphic
WOW. This is an amazing resource and source of great information. Check out this image. Very visual representation of Entrepreneurship. Introducing The Young Entrepreneur Mega InfoGraphic, created by our friends at Infographic World! Below is not only the longest InfoGraphic posted on the Internet, it’s also undoubtedly the most useful to anyone with an Entrepreneurial [...]
Social Media- Managing Yourself
Here are some simple questions you should answer when thinking about how Social Media will work for you. It helps to look at the two spheres of social media activity—personal and professional—against the target audience—private and public. 1. Are your goals personal, professional, or both? 2. Is your desired target audience private (friends, family, co-workers, [...]
Facebook Cheat Code: Select All Friends
Do you have an event or even your Facebook fan page that you want to share with ALL your friends in an easy way. Some might call this a Facebook cheat code, but its really just a shortcut. You see, usually when you try to share something with your friends, a pop up box shows [...]
Text Message Marketing: The Simple Truth
Recently, T-Mobile the wireless giant, released some new about raising its rate for businesses to send out bulk SMS messages. (Please note this is based upon a text message business account with T-Mobile and does not affect the Unlimited Text Message service we offer here at Http://www.SOLmarketingSOLutions.com) This increase of rate is only a quarter [...]
The New Twitter
Finally… Twitter has completed the roll out of a brand new version and they are calling it… drum roll please… ‘The New Twitter‘ available to all users. This “New Twitter” is available to all users, all 160 million of them in over 5 languages. And for those that do not like change, you will be [...]
