Marketing and Twitter



With the emergence of social networks in this day and age managers must be aware of their risk and opportunities. Many small businesses are using the social networking site as a tool for marketing. Many people already realize the wide spread effects tweeting can have on gaining awareness for products, services, and other issues. Small business can utilize twitter as a marketing tool with little or no advertising budget at all. Bigger businesses like Starbucks and Comcast also use twitter to promote products and to answer customer questions. But now companies are looking at it as a tool to gain leads. "According to HipLogiq, combing through the millions of conversations that can be taking place at any time on the social media platform is now made possible with their SocialCentiv
software"(socialcentiv), this can be useful for business to find out who possible customers could be. Do you feel comfortable with companies monitoring your tweets to find out what products you might be interested in buying?

http://resources.socialcentiv.com/can-twitter-leads-really-leverage-small-business-marketing-success_10786.html

http://www.anchormedia.com/free-twitter-tools-you-should-know-about/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/business/smallbusiness/23twitter.html?_r=0

From Instagram to Businessman

         Instagram is an online photo sharing, video sharing and social networking service. It allows its users to take pictures and videos so they can share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. As we all know many people use this app on their phone for fun, but little do they know Instagram is one of the most popular marketing strategies. 

         Slowly people are starting to post their businesses on Instagram in order to spread the word. There is a certain trick most of the business owners do. They start off a "shoutout" page to get people to shout them out in order to get a large amount of followers.

 Most of the time they do a shout out for shout out thing where they shout you out only after you do theirs. After receiving thousands of followers they finally change the page to their business and put up posts for everyone to view. Another thing business owners do is buy the follower. They do this to give people the illusion that they are already popular, and they should join the "Bandwagon."  

            For now it seems pretty legit, so far there's no report of an Instagram scam or scandal. A few pages I have seen and shopped from are:

•  Sellsneakers here has a link to Sole supremacy

•    DistinguishedCravat

• SneakerFind

http://www.keepcalmandposters.com/poster/keep-calm-and-s4s-



        

Facebook "Catfishing"

A New Spin on the Word "Catfish."

For the past few years, people of all ages throughout the world have been using other people's identities or fake ones instead of using their own profiles to talk to others on Facebook.  Due to a new television show called "Catfish," this has become more common than ever.

The show "Catfish" conducted by Nev Schulman and Max Joseph has shown the vast amount of "Catfishing" around the United States.  I am wondering to what extent people are going to take this. Even on the show people are getting highly upset because of how they are treated by these "fake people." 

In one case, a woman pretended to be the rapper "Bow Wow." She even sent a woman money to make the story more believable. This case went on for half a year before the truth came out, with help from Nev and the show "Catfish." Social media can be easy access to use someone's identity without them even knowing it. 

I have personally felt like I have been "Catfished." The same random woman has been messaging me for the past 6 months. I have no clue who she is, we aren't friends on Facebook, we have no mutual friends, and she only has about 10 pictures. I have told her to stop messaging me more than once, but she continues to do so. I get very aggravated and wonder how many other people she or he does this to.

I am wondering if this issue will eventually be pushed to a legal issue! I am thinking that one day a random person will make up a name of a real person and the actual person that has that name is going to get angry and make it a legal issue. I would be mad if someone was using my name and posting inappropriate things on Facebook.  How would you feel or react? Will this ever go to trial? How far are people going to take this?

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.25855/title.bow-wow-meets-catfish-s-dee-pimpin-keyonna

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How LinkedIn Could Be the Ticket to Landing an Internship

     College is hard enough as it is. Many students are always having to cope with the stress of keeping their grades up. As if that weren’t stressful enough, they start to realize that in just a few years, they have to step out into the real world and start a career in order to provide for themselves. This can be problematic for many students because jobs are not as easy to come by as they once were. As students, they must find a way to give them a competitive advantage over other college graduates. One of the most successful ways to insure an opportunity after college is to get their foot in the door and gain experience by obtaining an internship.

     Internships are normally a semester long, and can either contain part-time or full-time hours. They are a great way to gain hands-on experience in the field that one desires. The problem is, internships can be just as hard to find as that full-time position following graduation. One of the ways students can help find an internship or help a potential employer locate them is by using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a social networking site in a more professional outlook.

 LinkedIn can aid students in several ways, of which some are

·          Keeping their account updated which can act as a resume that can be seen by any employer

·         Connecting with professionals in their desired field and network to learn about potential internships with their company

·         Research companies and their competitors in order to go into the interview with confidence and questions

·         Look up internships and apply for them in a convenient way

By creating an account and using these tips, this will strongly increase your chances of getting that internship you have been waiting for.

           

For more information or to start your account today, visit www.linkedin.com