Flickr – A Visual Platform For Businesses

3,018 uploads in the last minute. 71,248 things tagged with jump. 2.7 million things geo-tagged this month. What more reason do you need to get yourself involved with Flickr? Which other tool can help you take up your business across a wide range of people with such an ease as Flickr? If you are a business owner you should know how to represent your business on Flickr efficiently. If you are a marketer, you should know how to use Flickr effectively as an online marketing tool. After all,...

LinkedIn for Lead Generation

LinkedIn is an interesting and professional social networking site. Many users want to connect only with people they already know in their network, but unless the network is big enough, the benefits of using LinkedIn becomes minimal. The primary goal of LinkedIn is to connect people who already know each other personally to create a network based on “trusted relationships.” There are many restrictions in LinkedIn to prevent potential spamming. Sales and Business Development professionals...

11 Proven Ways to Increase Your Twitter Followers

When something is said to be proven, it helps others readily. These are easy, tested-and-proven ways to increase your Twitter followers. Anything achieved in a short period of time demands great respect. Twitter has indeed grown from a startup which was about status updates to a medium that has revolutionized the way social networking is done. But instant success in social networking brings with it the threat of bots. When you try hard to increase your followers you can be scammed by bots....

DDOS Assault: Twitter took 2 days for recovery. Facebook woke up in a day. Why?

In what popular blogs called the United States' “close-to-collapsing-moment”, Twitter went down for 2 days suffering a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS). Rival Facebook and popular site LiveJournal too suffered a DOS assault the same day (Thursday). While Facebook and LiveJournal only limped throughout the day, Twitter was completely down, displaying an error message when accessed. Even Twitter applications Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Power Twitter etc. remained unusable for a long...

11 Simple Twitter secrets revealed

Apart from being a site for knowledge sharing and thought sharing, Twitter has become good traffic source for people conscious about branding and advertisement. That is the reason the whole world is using Twitter. Here are 11 simple Twitter secrets which will help you establish your brand when you are using Twitter for branding. 1. Be simple to identify yourself – Your profile should be easy to remember. It is better if you have your company name or the name of the product/service as your...