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Facebook aims to make new moves toward media and mobile commerce

09/22/201109/22/2011 Julie Campbell

According to the director of platform partnerships at Facebook, Ethan Beard, the ever evolving social media network, has taken aim at enabling the sharing of media, as well as taking a bigger step into mobile, and using the social connections in order to increase commerce. Beard made this announcement in San Francisco, at the Yerba Buena Arts Center for the first Ad Age Digital West conference. Facebook is also expected to make significant announcements at its developer conference in San Francisco, called f8. There, it is expected that there will…

Study shows that digital marketers are unsatisfied with currently available tools

08/09/2011 Jennifer Goula

According to a survey held by Web Liquid, a digital marketing agency based in New York, digital marketers are recognizing the value of social media monitoring, but are not fully satisfied with the tools available to get the job done. Social media marketing is already known to be highly important, with 74 percent of marketers making an effort to track online conversations held by consumers regarding their brands. The survey included the participation of 237 marketers at the senior level, among whom 95 percent believed that consumer conversations online over…

Marketing Trends Turn to Social Media as a Critical Tool

06/12/2011 Sam Lambert

Social media’s presence throughout the personal and professional online world has allowed it to rapidly become a foundation tool for marketing campaigns among companies ranging from independent entrepreneurs and small businesses to large multinational corporations. This is the result of the popularity and ever-present nature of social media, as well as the fact that among users of these platforms – such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn – 75 percent have viewed or connected their profiles with company pages, and 69 percent follow status updates and blogs. The methods of social…

Online presence with social networking a must for all business models

05/03/2011 Sam Lambert

In today’s technology driven world it makes sense that businesses would choose to have an internet website. In the past three or four years, companies have been expanding out to social networking sites and things like search engine optimization also. More and more businesses are adapting and blending into an all-inclusive marketing model online. Ten years ago no one would have imagined this type of growth; now, we’ve seen what the power of technology and information can do. The new generation is all about social networking, being mobile and getting…