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How Do I Get My Site Added to the Sociable Plugin?

There are dozens of site submission options for publishers / bloggers using the Sociable plugin for WordPress. You’ll see it at the end of this post. It offers you the option of sharing this article with your friends or bookmarking … Continue reading

How Does Facebook Acquiring Friendfeed Affect Me?

If you have a Twitter or Friendfeed account, you’ve no doubt already heard the news that Facebook acquired Friendfeed. But what does that mean to users like you and me? Granted, the majority of you probably didn’t have a Friendfeed … Continue reading

Isn’t Twitter Just for Self-Absorbed Egomaniacs?

More than any other objection, I hear people refuse to try Twitter because no one is THAT interesting. They don’t care if someone is going to the grocery store or getting their hair dyed. And they definitely don’t want to … Continue reading

The New Facebook Page Insights: Getting to Know Engagement Metrics

In early March 2009, Facebook began pushing a package of enhanced metric reporting to page administrators as a follow-up to redesigned pages for businesses, celebrities, bands and other non-personal entities. Facebook’s rollout of these features coincided with MarketNet’s launch of … Continue reading

It’s Time to Define Your Long-Term Social Media Strategy

I love launching a company’s social media engagement with prizes, giveaways, and other “incentivizing” goodies. Nothing says instant attention like free stuff people actually want. But unless you’re working with a limitless supply of prizes and giveaways, you’ll need a … Continue reading

Best of the Best: Integrations of 3D Virtual Worlds in Social Media Campaigns

Many companies have taken notice of the importance of integrating Social Media into their overall Corporate Marketing initiatives and have effectively jumped right into the social media bandwagon by building successful presences on Facebook as well as on Twitter. But … Continue reading

Strategic Use of Social Media Webinar

One of the things that we will be doing in the next few weeks is sharing some strategic uses of Social Media.  This week’s example is the following scenario: Tool Manufacturer Z Challenge:  Promote new product to workers/handymen Approach: Target … Continue reading

Cool New Twitter Changes You Should Know About

Late Wednesday evening, we heard TechCrunch and Cnet discuss news of some very cool changes coming Twitter… changes you’ll want to know about. Ex-Google VP of Search Quality, Santosh Jayaram, is Twitter’s new VP of Operations, which in and of … Continue reading

Twitter Misconceptions

Twitter.  Twitter this, Twitter that.  Twitter everything.  It’s all over the news, prime-time programming, magazines, any many more locations online and offline.  I have some news for you, this “technology” isn’t going away anytime soon.  Many of us at MarketNet … Continue reading

2009 Internet Marketing Influencers (“Traditional” Marketing Doesn’t Work on Me)

Recently, there was an article in one of our local newspapers where the author claimed that social media was not a viable marketing method, and that traditional media would thrive again in the future.  I have the complete opposite opinion, … Continue reading