Twitter Launches Certified Products Program

by Tony Shays on August 30, 2012

Twitter Certified Products

Twitter has launched the Twitter Certified Products Program in an effort to bring innovative products and services to users. There are currently three verticals in the program:

    Engagement Products to help brands keep in touch with their customers
    Analytics Products to help businesses learn from their customers on Twitter
    Data Reseller Products to serve as platforms for innovation on top of large numbers of Tweets

A blog by Twitter’s Seth Bindernagel states that the company identified the areas in which they see demand for innovation “based on needs we see from partners every day.”

The Certified Products Program launched with 12 partners. …

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Google+ Launches Business Features, Free Through 2013

by Tony Shays on August 29, 2012

Google+ for Business

In its latest attempt to keep Google+ relevant, Google has launched the first set of features designed specifically for businesses. The preview period begins today for Google Apps users.

Additional features and controls will be added over time, with the service being offered for free though 2013. It seems that Google plans to begin charging for these services come 2014, but there is no mention of a cost at the current time. It will likely depend on demand/use.

Here are the business tools offered by Google+ through Google Apps as of today’s announcement:

    Video Hangout On Gmail, Calendar & Docs
    The best thing Google+ has going for it, in my opinion, is the Hangout feature, which allows up to 10 people communicate via video chat. …

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SEO for Startup Businesses in 10 Minutes

by Tony Shays August 21, 2012
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Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, posted the following video on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog. She advises a startup company as if she had only 10 minutes as its SEO consultant.

The lesson is aimed toward beginner to intermediate level webmasters for companies with main content below 50 pages who hope to rank for only a handful of related terms using SEO.

You will learn about SEO related topics such as 301 redirects, verifying ownership, domain background checks, analytics coding, site design strategy, defining your conversion, using keywords, anchor text, page speed, ranking, social media marketing and more – all in under 10 minutes. …

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15 Staggering LinkedIn Statistics

by Alex DiVincenzo August 13, 2012
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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the internet. Here are some interesting facts about the website. The staggering numbers come directly from LinkedIn.

    LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
    LinkedIn officially launched on May 5, 2003. It had 4,500 members after its first month.
    LinkedIn has approximately 161 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
    People join LinkedIn at a rate of around two new members per second. That’s approximately 172,800 people per day! …

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12 Facebook Don’ts

by Tony Shays August 3, 2012
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Facebook is a wonderful social media tool for staying in touch with others, whether they be friends and family or your business clients and customers. It can also be a way to network, make new friends and attract people to your business. Unfortunately, if not used properly, it can also work against you, repelling those you want to attract most.

The majority of users on Facebook, whether they have a business to promote or not, also use the website for personal reasons. …

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Why You Never Want to Be Interesting

by Tim Sales July 26, 2012
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Have you ever seen this guy?

He’s the most interesting man in the world and here’s an eight-minute video describing why.

A beer company has built an advertising campaign around a fictional man “whose blood smells like cologne” and who “has charm so contagious, vaccines have been created for it.” While the video is a great laugh, it’s also a great lesson on what network marketers shouldn’t be – INTERESTING.

The Most Interesting Man in the World Is a Network Marketer? …

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