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Social Media

Websites are no longer required!10 Mar

A website is a way of communicating what you do to a wider audience. People, sometimes very random people, visit your site, see what you do, how you do it and who you do it with. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, they stay around awhile and find out more about you. And sometimes if you’re really lucky [...]
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UK Retailers Failing to Make the Most of Social Media Marketing11 Feb

- Just two in five retailers has a social media presence - Only 10% use more than one social media network - Only 32% of retailers with a Twitter or Facebook account promote them on their website The majority of UK retailers are failing to exploit the opportunity to integrate social media marketing into their operation to increase [...]
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20+ mind blowing Social Media statistics31 Jan

This is a collection of stats I’ve found recently and I guess they all got to show that if six months ago it wasn’t a compelling case to consider social media in the marketing mix, then it might just be the time now… Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. [...]
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How to Sync Facebook events with Google Calendar29 Jan

Ever wanted to sync your events in facebook with your Google Calendar - well, it’s not difficult and here’s how… 1. Login to facebook and click on Settings > Application Settings 2. Click on Events 3. Click on Export Events 4. When the pop-up box appears, copy the url 5. Now login to your Google Calendar and on the [...]
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What Loses as Social Media Wins?24 Jan

Just reading an interesting article by Mark Evans (Thanks Mark, got me thinking) on what loses out as your time on Social Media increases. I though this was interesting and led me to think about what I do less of now than I used to. The big loser in my life is TV - I [...]

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Did you know that more people access the internet using a mobile device than a PC?

Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year.