Promoted Tweets And The Twitter Monetization Strategy

The day before Twitter kicked off its developer conference Chirp this week they announced they had a monetization plan and that plan would include paid tweets and that they were now rolling out in a limited fashion. During the Chirp conference they talked a little more in depth about what exactly paid for tweets meant and how they would implement them on the site. If you don’t feel like watching the entire 30...

5 Reasons Why Your Site Should Be Using Video

Have you been considering adding video to your site but still have yet to make the leap? Here are five good reasons why you should consider adding video to your site right now. It’s Cheaper Than You Think – Video equipment is no longer the cost prohibitive entry into video that it once was with HD camcorders now available from both Flip and Kodak for under 200 dollars. I currently shoot all my video...

6 WordPress Plugins That Help Your Content Be More Social

If you are looking for an easy way to give your visitors to quickly and easily share your content with their friends and followers here are six WordPress plugins you can install on your blog that take less than five minutes to install and configure. The more options you give your users to share your content with their network of followers and friends the higher the chances are they will actually do so meaning your...

Facebook Launches Promote Your Post

It appears that Facebook has turned on a new Facebook advertising feature that gives Facebook page admins a new way to promote their pages. Now below your page post and to the right of the Share link you will see the Promote link. After clicking the Promote link a window pops up and gives you the option to either Create Advert, Edit Advert or Cancel. Clicking on the Create Advert will take you to Facebook Review...

What Makes A Good Facebook Fan Page?

“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” — Pablo Picasso I wanted to understand how to create a top fan page on Facebook and so I began investigating many of the biggest brands and their pages and searching for a commonality between them that helped turn them into pages with hundreds of thousands active fans. Since many of us do not have the brand power of the Coca-Cola’s, Linkin Park’s, Skittles and the...