Recent surveys have shown that while businesses are embracing social media in droves, many are doing so without any real strategy in place. Without a strategy, there may be no clear ownership, or definition of success, or measurement, or integration with other marketing and PR efforts—all of which can lead eventually to wasted time and effort, abandoned blogs and Facebook pages, and even the erroneous conclusion that social media doesn’t work for us. Who: the first who question is who will be in charge of social media efforts? Tweet? MORE >>

Social media can be a great source of traffic and leads. More and more businesses start the conversation in social media and many of them ask for the ROI. As social media needs investment of time and money like any other communication channel, it needs to prove results! The more people participate in your online activities the better. The more you engage in social media like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn and some other the more you can expand your reach. The more people you mention, your business and your brand the better. MORE >>

Social media has become an important communication channel for businesses online. Its importance is growing by the technology developments for social media analytics which enable businesses and there for marketing responsible employees to exactly show the ROI of social media marketing to their executives! Companies increasingly embrace social media and the other important strategies like content marketing and real time marketing an. So it seems that about 28% of the global online population is on Twitter. MORE >>

Over the last decade, business blogs have gone from being a novelty to a leading-edge practice to an essential element for any company seeking to optimize its presence on the web. According to Small Business Trends and HubSpot , the percentage of businesses with blogs has increased from less than half in 2009 to nearly two out of three in 2011. Why are so many companies now embracing blogging? blog helps on all three fronts much more than a standard corporate website. Will the blog be part of your corporate site or have its own unique URL ? MORE >>

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. To give credit where it’s due, both the TopRank Online Marketing Blog and Robin Good have provided nice lists in the past, but as changes in the blog directory world can be challenging to keep pace with, both now include dead links and directories that have significantly changed their policies (e.g. Webbiquity B2B Marketing Blog). MORE >>