In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Social Networking Meets Anonymous Gifts and Cellphones

by Scott Frangos

In this day where rapid technology advancements meet the curve of social networking online, entrepreneurs are experimenting with new ways (and combinations of existing ways) to do business online. What about enabling social networkers to send gifts anonymously? How about an easy way to use small mobile screens for web surfing and business online? That’s exactly what Goosca and Squace are up to… Continue reading

In: Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, Video Marketing

Social Marketing Has Come of Age - Again?

By James Burchill

The pen is mightier than the sword. What a great line. Written no doubt by a pacifist I’m guessing, because I’m all for the power of the word (in the beginning there was only the word…) but facing someone in battle armed only with a ballpoint pen… I’d run a mile - unless of course I was Bruce Willis or Stallone, then I’d win no matter what.

Today… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

Mobile Web is Going to be Big… Real Big

by Scott Frangos

Are you ready for the Mobile Internet? Maybe you are, but your website isn’t. Well, you better make the necessary modifications, because if research by Juniper Inc. is right, you’ll miss out on a huge market if you don’t. How big? 24 billion by 2013. Let’s take a look at what’s… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

How Does Google Rank Blogs? Completely different than you think!

How Google Ranks Blogs

by Chris Lang

How Does Google Rank Blogs? A lot different than you think!

Google does not rank blogs anything like you think they do. What we think of as SEO does NOT work for blogs. For months I have been chasing Google with incoming links, social marketing and keyword SEO in my blog. Then… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Stodgy Forums Are About to Get Zinged

by Scott Frangos

Do you use bulletin board and forum systems to do research, meet people in your profession and network? You should. That’s one big key to Social Media Marketing. But have you noticed that a lot of bulletin boards look and operate the same way they did in the 1990’s?

Why do you think that is? Complacency. Everybody is used to what a forum… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Engage Or Die - The Rise Of User-Generated Content

By Simon Dance

Why do people spend so much time creating and uploading content for the internet? In the view of MySpace guru Richard Rosenblatt, the answer is age-old: ‘People like to express themselves, and they want to be famous. Those are two things we saw from the very beginning of MySpace. Five years ago MySpace didn’t even exist; in 2008 it’s going to do $800 million in revenue, and… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

MetaSocial Services - Stitching Your Social Network Together…

by Scott Frangos, Managing Editor - WebHelperMagazine.com

There is much energy, start-up capital, and media attention being paid to Social Networking and the companies that facilitate it, these days. Why? In a nutshell, I think it is about empowering people to communicate — on new levels. In a recent post, I wrote about the “5 C’s of Social Marketing” (beyond simply… Continue reading