The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Announced early this morning on The Next Web Facebook Places is now officially live in the UK. Whilst there is no commercial aspect to the release at this point in the form of Ads, you can add locations to Facebook Pages. Currently you are unable to tag images or videos but this will come in [...]
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It’s finally here, location based social media is about to hit the masses, and location based marketing is likely to take off big time. As Facebook Places finally hits the streets, at the time of writing not in the UK yet, it may now be time for location based marketing to have it’s day. I [...]
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It’s very easy to get caught up in the latest Social Media hype and the new applications hitting the news headlines but before you dive head first into Foursquare or Gowalla, have you done the basics? Googles Local Business Center should be the first stop for any business that has an office, outlet or other [...]
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There is a lot of discussion over Facebook and privacy currently and how they may not be doing enough to notify it’s users of what is or isn’t being made public. As an Internet professional where do you stand? As you know, to be able to do your job effectively you will have to use [...]
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If you’re still trying to figure out how you can use location based Social Media to promote your brand then Foursquare may have the answer. Co-founder Dennis Crowley talking at South by South West suggested ways that they may be able to help. They are now looking for brands to have their own badges within [...]
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I got very excited this week, as I saw the opportunity for offline businesses to promote themselves effectively online was coming to fruition. Why would this excite me? Well, the majority of small businesses struggle to fully embrace the web due to either a lack of resource or budget. This then leaves them disheartened and [...]
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