Social media is easily becoming one of the best communication channels available to reach your consumer base. Businesses all over the world are peering into social media and how it can help them increase their online (and offline) presence and revenue. Luckily, building your brand through social media is a very simple process if a business takes the time to maintain their accounts and assets whil Read More
Quiet often, we use various search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo to find solutions to our various business queries. Such search engines make the searching Read More
While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic (like StumbleUpon) many sites don’t have the resources that others have to get more traffic for your site. You don’t have to spend money; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site. Read More
What’s your T.Q. (i.e., Twitter Quotient)? Are you using Twitter intelligently? And by “intelligently,” I don’t mean are you tweeting Einsteinium equations. I’m wondering if you’re following the path of best practices. Read More
Recently Chris Brogan, co-author of Trust Agents, speaker, trainer and all around social media guru, visited Minneapolis and held a seminar he titled “Reputations.” Eric Mitchellette, business coach and consultant, attended and wrote an article for this blog that I could share with you. Read More
Social media platforms build buzz, boost business and serve small businesses as low-cost/no-cost marketing tools. Small business owners need to understand how these tools strategically serve and support small business first so they best implement social media strategies to sell products and/or services. Read More
A fresh study conducted by the Nielsen Company showed that Facebook is currently the biggest time waster on the Internet. According to the data gathered, users around the United States spent a whopping 7 hours on average using Facebook per month; this is a growth of about 10%. Additionally, the number of those actively using the web grew 3.8% to slightly more than 203 million users. Read More
Whether you’re developing software, working in marketing or even a full-time writer, the odds that you’ll be asked to contribute to a blog at some point just keep going up, because blogs have become a key method of communication for many organizations. However, contributing to a blog is not easy, especially if writing isn’t one of your strengths.

Fortunately, it is a skill that can be learned. Read More
It’s getting to be quite a social jungle out there, even before the announcement of Google Buzz, and that’s a good thing – particularly if you’re an individual or business ever on the lookout to attract new customers and stay connected with existing ones. Read More
One of the biggest challenges for small businesses who want to market using social media is capacity. crowdSPRING is a small business – there are only 10 people on our team – so we understand this challenge well. Read More
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