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Techniques for marketers to reach consumers using mobile social media

03/26/201203/25/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

With Facebook’s recent announcements regarding the changes it will be making for the mobile platform – for example, making the Timeline format available for brands over mobile – marketers are looking into new ways to get the most out of mobile social media by connecting with consumers. There are two primary strategies that are currently being tossed around, which are: • Reaching the mobile audience through Facebook, itself • Using micro sites to boost the social media marketing as a whole In the first effort, there are three main steps…

Position Marketing Group adds QR codes to its Interactive Secured Advertising Technology banners

03/25/201203/24/2012 Stephen Vagus

The Position Marketing Group (PMG), an interactive and online advertising firm, has announced a new feature for its Interactive Secured Advertising Technology. The company often uses this technology for banners, which are in turn used by businesses for various marketing campaigns. The latest update to the company’s technology will enable businesses to use these banners to promote social media connections. This is accomplished through the use of QR codes. PMG has created its own QR code generator specifically for this new initiative. Social media has become a very popular medium…

Cinsay study shows the potential and capability of its social commerce software

01/10/201201/10/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Cinsay, Inc. has completed the three quantitative tests that it performed throughout 2011’s fourth quarter as a part of a study with its Smart Container managed services, to determine how successful its new software is, as well as to examine the software’s purpose in greater depth. The idea behind the Smart Container software is the marriage of viral social media distribution and video-driven marketing so that retailers could achieve improved results. According to the results of their tests, the software performed beyond their expectations, with tremendous rises in critical factors…

The gloves come off in 2012 for Facebook and Google

01/02/201201/02/2012 L. Green

In 2012, analysts are anticipating that Google will be making some significant efforts – far more critical than have been seen until now – to up the popularity of Google+ and become a serious competition for Facebook, which currently holds the leader in the social network market. Google, which holds the position of the largest internet company in the world, still has yet to come near Facebook’s top spot as the largest social network. Next year will have them battling each other head-to-head on a much more regular basis, and…

Could Google+ ever become as influential as Facebook?

11/28/201111/28/2011 John Montgallo

Social networks are the hot thing and dozens of them have appeared online, each attempting to take some of the market share that has already been claimed by Facebook, Twitter, Linked in and, mostly formerly, MySpace. This has lead to a significant debate over whether Google+ will ever have the type of influence that those other established social networks have held, or if it will simply become one of a tremendous number of copycats and failures that were forgotten before they were known. If it does have a chance of…