500 million on Facebook! If your customers and prospects use Facebook and you yourself love Facebook, then stick with Facebook. Tweet Two weeks ago my Krups coffee grinder bit the dust. bought it while in college. early 1980s. That means I’ve used it, day in and day out, for approximately 28 years. Once I confirmed that it was truly dead, I immediately made the trek to one of those big box stores to buy a new one, but alas, all they had was a Cuisinart Grind Central(r) Coffee Grinder. Except I’ve never had the occasion to make 18 cups of coffee. Honest. MORE >>

Sullivan prefers Twitter, blogs and LinkedIn as relationship building tools for her B2B clients over Facebook. Tweet Bloggers (well-known and not so well-known) are prime influencers in your market. Although a blogger may not use your product or service, he or she may track influential trends, companies and events. Get on a blogger’s radar — and follow a few simple rules — and you can easily build a relationship and garner some favorable press. So how do you win the ear of influential bloggers in your market? What methods have you tried to win the attention of bloggers? MORE >>

In between the banter and fun of Facebook, Twitter and G+, business happens. closed a small gig through Facebook last week. Back in June, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, wrote a terrific post (a rant, actually) about how effective link building is hard ( Link Building Means Earning “Hard Links,” Not “Easy Links” ). For years links have been the holy grail of SEO. Google’s PageRank is built on links — e.g. the more authoritative inbound links a site had, the more value Google placed on it and the higher the site went in the search engines. MORE >>

In between the banter and fun of Facebook, Twitter and G+, business happens. closed a small gig through Facebook last week. Back in June, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, wrote a terrific post (a rant, actually) about how effective link building is hard ( Link Building Means Earning “Hard Links,” Not “Easy Links” ). For years links have been the holy grail of SEO. Google’s PageRank is built on links — e.g. the more authoritative inbound links a site had, the more value Google placed on it and the higher the site went in the search engines. MORE >>

Svedka Vodka integrates mobile, Facebook. Once there, people could then sign in via Facebook and “Like&# the Svedka Vodka Page. For those of you not using Facebook, this means that any time Svedka puts out a message to its “Friends,&# that message shows up in their personal profiles. This is why companies are drooling over Facebook’s 500 million users. “One of the goals of the campaign,&# says Noel, “was to increase the number of Facebook fans, which we accomplished. Tweet. What is a QR Code? uh no. This worked. at Going Cellular. MORE >>