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Beirut
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Published
September 29, 2011
September 29, 2011
Twitter can definitely be a silly time waster, however, it could equally be the perfect business tool for a wide range of companies.
Therefore, for today’s post, we will be sharing with you 5 ways that your business could benefit from your Twitter account by utilizing it to its maximum potential:
1. Unique & Artful Customer Service:
Building and maintaining customer relations could be tricky, to say the least. However, and based on past experiences, we can see how Twitter is able to facilitate this process for you and allows you to do it with style! Check out what Comcast’s customercare account on Twitter.
2. Vendor Selection:
Twitter can snag customers, and that applies to suppliers as well. Crowdspring, an online marketplace that marries businesses with graphic designers, used Twitter to build up its stable of contributors–now 12,000 strong globally. Continue reading »
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Tagged account, benefit, building, business, care, Comcast, companies, customer, employment, experiences, followers, howto, jobs, maintaining, relations, reputation, retention, service, tips, tool, Tricks, Twitter, vendor
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By
Beirut
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Published
June 22, 2011
June 22, 2011
The real time search engine market has been firing-up and there are many services trying to gain some market share in this area. We followed a simple criteria to pick services and build our list: The service must be (1) Real-time and (2) NOT limited to Twitter search results. Here we go:
1. Twingly’s Microblog Search: It covers Twitter, Identica, Bleeper, and a few other services. It’s dedicated to microblogging and offers a RSS subscription option for your searches. While being dominated by Twitter results, it gives you the option of filtering it out by un-checking a box on the side of the page. This makes Twingly one of the most customizable real-time search services covered in this article.
 Twingly
2. Social Mention: Social Mention covers 80+ social media services including all of the major players (Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google, etc). While it has one of the neatest and most clean interfaces among the services we covered, it seems to be the slowest one – showing a list of flashing stars for up to 1 minutes sometimes! We like the various options it provides: the tab options, alerts, RSS subscriptions, the ranking/trending system, and the option of exporting your search results into CSV/Excel file, but slow speed is a deal-breaker! On the other hand, for social alerts and comprehensiveness, it’s one of the best.
3. FriendFeed Search: It shows results from Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious and tens of other social media services. It allows a user to connect and collect all his social Web activities into one place. If you are looking for your friends’ opinions regarding a certain topic, FF is great, if you want to perform a comprehensive search, most probably FF won’t cut it as it only indexes the users registered with their service.
 Friendfeed Search
4. LifeStream.fm Search: It’s a similar service to FriendFeed and supports 40+ services including the major social media websites (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Stumble upon, Pownce, and Digg). Unfortunately it only searches events of the users subscribed to their services. This puts it at the same disadvantage as FriendFeed.
While there are a lot of similarities in the services provided by the above real-time search engines, there are also some unique differences that make each one of them unique in a way or another.
Which one is your favorite? Do you think real-time search is valuable or maybe over-rated? Please use the comments section below to let us know your thoughts.
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Tagged blogging, engine, feed, free, Friendfeed, friends, info, internet, LifeStream, links, mention, micro, real time, RSS, search, SEO, service, sharing, social, socialmedia, Twingly, Twitter, web2.0
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By
Beirut
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Published
June 8, 2011
June 8, 2011
Twitter search is
very important. If you do use it, you probably noticed that not all tweets show up in your search. The reason for this is that Twitter filters out certain tweets from Twitter search.
Your tweets not showing up in the search results is not a good thing, especially if you are using Twitter for business. Being filtered out is not good for your social presence either.
Therefore, today we will present you with 5 ways to avoid being filtered from Twitter search:
 A Snap Shot from Twitter Search of beiruta
- Don’t spam: We all know by now that spam could devastate your presence on Twitter, so please don’t do it!
- Don’t post duplicate tweets: If you want to promote your website, blog, product, etc, better do it over a couple of hours. It’s very annoying to see your service or blog linked five times in a row. Continue reading »
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Tagged blog, check, filtering, howto, link, mix, product, profile, search, service, spam, time, tips, Tweepi, tweet, Twitter, website
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By
Beirut
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Published
May 24, 2011
May 24, 2011
Social media has become a very essential tool in all our marketing and advertising activities. However, as we all know, not all social media efforts are successful.
Therefore, for today’s post, I present you with 10 great social media tips and links that will help you better utilize social media, its tools and its use.
 Utilizing Social Media
1. @TechnoBuffalo: What’s The Real Cost Of Social Media (Infographic) http://bit.ly/jo9emq
2. @baekdal: Social media is a significant traffic source for 78% of travel sites: http://j.mp/iQITg4
3. @Sendible: 5 Productivity Tools for the Busy Social Media Manager – http://sendto.fm/iKrRlt
4. @jaybaer A New Way to Calculate What Facebook Is Worth to Your Business: http://bit.ly/kTBXu5
5. @soshableweb: Using Social Media To Establish Your Brand Online http://bit.ly/kGbfQS
Continue reading »
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Tagged brand, business, calculate, communities, content, cost, Facebook, infograph, laws, manager, online, posts, privacy, product, productivity, rules, SEO, service, sharing, Social media, tips, tools, travel, Twitter
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