Main Reasons Why People Unsubscribe From Opt-In Emails
And also more tips on why people Unlike a Facebook page or will Unfollow you on Twitter. Amplify’d from mashable.com More than 90% of consumers unsubscribe, “unlike” or stop following brands because of too frequent, irrelevant or boring communications, according to a report by social media and e-mail marketing services company ExactTarget. Released Tuesday, “The Social Break-Up” is a study that surveyed more than 1,500 consumers, exploring changing online behaviors and top motivations for “unliking,” unfollowing and...
read moreEditor of Mashable Weighs In on the Facebook vs Google Wars
Amplify’d from www.cnn.com (CNN) — Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to Internet analytics firm Hitwise. Let’s begin by admitting that the Hitwise data doesn’t represent the whole truth. For starters, Hitwise only measures unique visitors in the United States. What’s more, Hitwise measures sites on a per domain basis: If the analytics firm were to include Google-owned YouTube in its calculations, Google’s network of websites would outrank Facebook properties....
read moreFacebook Likes Begin Ranking in Bing?!?
Amplify’d from blog.searchenginewatch.com Yesterday Bing announced that specific links that have been ‘liked’ by your Facebook friends will be highlighted in the search results page. This is a development from the separate set of Facebook results that occasionally appear for generic search queries. Although this feature is still being rolled out, a preview image on the Bing blog illustrates how displaying the Facebook ‘Like’ button may change visual indicators on a page and draw a user’s attention to different parts of a search...
read moreFacebook For Commerce May Be BIGGER That We First Thought
Amplify’d from www.retailonlineintegration.com The value of Facebook and other social media sites to retailers is greater than previously thought, according to a recent survey conducted by Media Logic, a company recognized for specializing in marketing for a social world. After all, Facebook would be the third most populated country in the world if it were, in fact, a country. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for retailers to be involved with the social media site. “People use Facebook as a way to organize their social life, and they’re considering retail and...
read moreFacebook and It’s World Wide Dominance is Amazing
Check out how Facebook is taking over the world of Social Networking. Not just a US thing anymore, the world is now Facebooking too. Amplify’d from techcrunch.com Just in case you had any doubts about the fact we live in the age of Facebook, just check out Vincenzo Cosenza’s latest edition of the World Map Of Social Networks. Based on this month’s Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data, Cosenza posits that Facebook has managed to overtake some local incumbent social networks in the past few months, particularly in...
read moreFacebook Lauches Emails but Calls It Something Else?!?
Amplify’d from mashable.com Facebook is set to launch a new “modern messaging system,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a press event this morning in San Francisco. Zuckerberg says that more than four billion messages are currently sent through Facebook each day. He also shared that Facebook believes that modern messaging is seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple and minimal. “It’s not e-mail,” he said. The new messaging system is composed of three parts: seamless messaging, conversation history and the social inbox. The latter is an inbox for...
read moreCould the FTC Take on Facebook Privacy Issues?!?
Top Privacy Group to Discuss Facebook Places With FTC See full article from DailyFinance: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/exclusive-top-privacy-group-to-discuss-facebook-places-with-ftc/19600158/?icid=sphere_copyright Amplify’d from www.dailyfinance.com Now that Facebook is jumping on the geo-location bandwagon with Facebook Places — not surprising, given the rapid rise of other such services as Foursquare and Gowalla — privacy advocates are already raising concerns. (CNET’s Caroline McCarthy broke the news about Places last week.) In fact,...
read moreFacebook Is Quickly Climbing Up In Online Video Ranking
An increasing number of users are turning to Facebook to watch their favorite films and online videos rising up to 47 million people this last July. According to recent statistics by comScore, Facebook has reached the third spot among the most popular websites when it comes to broadcasting online videos. Google Sites keeps the number one spot being the most popular source of online videos, attracting 143,000,000 viewers and Yahoo keeps a steady second place with 55,000,000 viewers. The rest of the list is integrated by Microsoft Sites with 45 million viewers, VEVO (43 million), Fox...
read moreeBay vs. Facebook: One Man’s Trash Was Another Man’s Treasure
eBay is in its 15 year anniversary and Facebook just announced it has over 1/2 billion members. It’s amazing to me when I think back on all the things that eBay did over its 15 year course. Pretty amazing how this site changed the face of ecommerce on the web. However, one of the things that it did in the last few years, I find really interesting. Since John Donahoe become the CEO, what’s most interesting about eBay is to compaire its growth to others. If you look to the last few years of eBay and the last few years of Facebook, you can see how one man’s trash became another man’s...
read moreDon’t think it’s time for your business to go social? You must be joking, right?
Social to me is the culmination of personal thoughts and ideas brought together through the desire of shared interaction and friendship. It seems like no matter who you are talking with nowadays, someone is asking if you are on Facebook or Twitter. Who needs business cards right? How many times have you told a new acquaintance you just met to just find you on Facebook or that you would “hit them up” on Facebook? Society is changing and along with it comes how we interact with one another. We are making connections with others who in the past we would not normally connect to (i.e. friends...
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