According to a recent survey conducted by Constant Contact, 97 % of business owners said that they use Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social media channels for their business marketing efforts. In contrast, only 17 percent said they use location-based advertising for business promotion.
This shows that many small firms are now using social media marketing and mobile device technology. This also shows that location-based marketing is becoming less popular.
According to Joel …

Social media is becoming more important now that the job market is very competitive. According to Dan Schawbel, an expert on personal branding, signing up for a social media account, e.g. LinkedIn, can go a long way when it comes to getting a favorable

If a person or an organization wanted to spread hate and terror through the use of social media, Twitter should be on top of their list.
Twitter is the best social network to promote hate and terror, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in an annual report presented on Capitol Hill by the organization on Tuesday.
The global Jewish human rights that tackle anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism in the report gauged how social networks monitored hate and terror groups using their services.

“Twitter is …

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has spoken up against blocking social media.
Aptly using a social network to voice his opposition to blocking social media, the prince wrote on his Twitter account on Monday about censorship of social media is a “losing war”.
“Dear Saudi Telecommunication Authority, social media is a tool for the people to make the government hear their voices,” the prince posted through Twitter, CNN reports.
“Just thinking of blocking them is a losing war, and a way to …

Facebook will start video advertising in July. These video ads will appear in the newsfeeds of users, automatically playing but without sound, giving that option with sound to the users if they want to. With this move, Facebook hopes that this will ultimately lead to an increase in share price compared to last year’s dreary listing in the stock

It’s been more than 10 years since Reid Hoffman, an entrepreneur, investor and product strategist out of Oxford University, called his colleagues from PayPal and SocialNet to gather in his living room and start a new company called LinkedIn.
Hoffman officially announced on Sunday in a company blog that LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the business.
The company started slow in its early days, with only 4,500 members after its …

Facebook has another reason to celebrate this year: the world’s largest social network has made it into the Fortune 500 list.
The social networking company only needed nearly nine years after launch to break through the illustrious list of U.S. companies.
Excluding spun-off companies, Facebook is the fastest company in history to enter the Fortune 500 list after it went public.
The previous titleholder was Google, as it made the list 16 months after its initial public offering.
Facebook …

Advertising in social media has many advantages. First, it is cheap. Second, it reaches customers at an individual level. Third, it’s relatively easy to start beginning with this form of

Authorities in Michigan have revealed that a woman from Comstock Park used Facebook to harass herself in an effort to frame up her former boyfriend.
According to MLive.com, 52-year-old Cheryl Nelson has admitted to using fake Facebook accounts which featured the personal information of her former boyfriend Kevin Haarsma to make it appear that the man’s new girlfriend was threatening her.
Nelson is facing charges of false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message, the publication …

Several brands in specific industries are barely felt on Pinterest. Global brand firm Digitas and analytics suite Curalate have released an infographic that details brand engagement on Pinterest for three markets: fashion and retail, automotive and electronics.
The study found that 70 percent of brand engagement on Pinterest is user-generated, unlike Facebook and Twitter, where companies push campaigns using verified accounts and pages. At Pinterest, the community shares more personal …