GM and Facebook are Friends Again (but only on mobile)

General Motors

The rift between the auto manufacturing giant and the social media titan is temporarily over. General Motors is cautiously returning to Facebook advertising only 11 months after making a high-profile exit from the network’s advertising platform, having decided that “paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers’ car purchases.”

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There are Billions of Social Media Users, but…

Tons of People

… you should only care about the ones that can buy from you.

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Microsoft Bombs on Twitter

Wikimotive Xbox

Adam Orth is one of the creative directors at Microsoft studios. He’s not the top of the chain, but he IS important, and he should be aware that his words have weight. Unfortunately (for Microsoft and his own career) he performed a major faux pas on Twitter last night. Let’s take a look at what he did and investigate how your small business SEO can learn from the mistakes of one of the biggest companies in the world.
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Big Brother Facebook Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself – and They’ll Tell Your Dad

Big Brother is Watching

“Tell us about yourself.”

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The Future of Social Gaming on Facebook

Chess

At what point did the concept of social networking really take off? Was when people started to use it to communicate with each other, or was when people start using it to play games with one another? There are more people today playing games on Facebook than there were just a few years ago. Is social networking becoming just another platform for people to play games?

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Is Facebook’s New Home a Phone? Why We Want a Phone in the First Place

Facebook Angle

Rumor has it that Facebook is partnering with HTC to produce an ‘android Facebook phone’. According to an article written on Zdnet.com, sources indicate that Facebook is collaborating with HTC to develop a “modified version of the Android operating system with a deep native Facebook functionality.” A formal invite was sent out to the world for the unveiling of what could be ‘the next best thing’. The question is, will it actually be a phone? Or is the question really, do we even want a phone?

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For Car Dealers, Exposure is a Key Point on Social

Coastal Lighthouse

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it’s the main point, but it’s definitely one of the keys. Exposure on social media is an extremely high-potential benefit of having a strong presence on social media sites, particularly Facebook.

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Now You Can Reply Directly to Comments on Facebook Pages

Facebook Pages reply link comments

The day we all have been waiting for has come for Facebook page owners and admins. The day in which we can directly respond to the people who leave comments on our Facebook Pages without having to tag them or just leaving another comment in your thread.

Facebook sure has improved communication on Facebook Pages with this latest feature by adding a reply link to comments. This means that you can now click “reply” when a comment is left on your page and the person who left it will be notified. This will turn commenting into a nested thread that will be in the comments section but creates a more personal touch between your brand and the commenter.

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New Twitter Advertising Rules – Some Tweets Illegal!

Wikimotive Twitter FTC

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released their newest .com disclosure guidelines, the first new release since the year 2000. It takes them a long, long time to update this document, and they never really say anything all that groundbreaking. The general message is that the same guidelines that apply to traditional advertising mediums apply to the net, so your affordable SEO company is safe. There is only one piece of really noticeable news that jumped out to people so far, and that pertains to Twitter.

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