social media

Facebook Announces Programme to Boost Businesses With Social Media Training

Facebook has announced the Business Boost programme to help small businesses reach customers, as companies seek to grow by using the social media site.The series of initiatives include a free advertising credits programme for businesses... more »

Social Media Can Work a Tweet

SOCIAL media is helping businesses boost their bottom line as they build new customer relationships and market their products and services.Research by American Express shows 72 per cent of Australian business owners have embraced social... more »

Pinterest Breaks Traffic Records and Whole Foods Leads the Way Into a Social Media Platform that the Retail Industry Can Be Happy About

Social media photo-sharing webiste Pinterest announced in its blog that it broke a company record on April 23rd and 24th when it experienced its highest traffic days ever. Pinterest leaders failed to disclose a number... more »

Well-Defined Goals Help Ensure Social Media Success

When Comcast was looking to decrease the number of customer service calls it was getting, it turned to Facebook to better engage with its customers.When Giant Glass wanted to reach out to university students to... more »

Local Businesses Take Advantage of Social Media

Starkville, MS - Shane Reed joined Twitter in July 2008 and just started playing around. He didn't expect it to be a part of Strange Brew Coffeehouse's business — he just wanted to engage with... more »

Social Media Spurred Sales for Independent Retailers in 2011

Detroit, MI - Cheryl and Karen Daskas, owners of the upscale Tender boutique in Birmingham, Mich., were trying to find a way to draw their social-media friends into the store this year.So they created an... more »

Google, Twitter Join ‘Small Business Saturday’ Movement

Following the success of last year's Small Business Saturday, a number of online giants are teaming up to help local owners make this year's event even more prosperous.Facebook, Google and Twitter, among others, are joining... more »

Digital Dynamos – Facebook, Google and Twitter – Support Small Business Saturday

Some of the world's online pioneers are uniting around a common goal: driving more business to local, independent shops for Small Business Saturday 2011. Facebook®, Google, Twitter and other innovators are joining with American Express... more »