Hannah Suarez Social Media for Business -interview series presents prominent Internet professionals from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of the latest Social Platforms. During this exciting and truly international interview series our experts reveal what are the most useful Social Media Tools and what you need to consider when you start using Social Media as part of  your marketing mix. Hannah Suarez is an Online Marketing Consultant from Brisbane Australia. Hannah is currently working as a Marketing Coordinator with Brisbane Festival (online marketing), involved with the Australian   read more

MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original UK version of MasterChef. It is produced by Fremantle Media Australia and hosted by food critic, UK born Matt Preston, Top 40 chef George Calombaris and restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan who is the owner of the famous Fenix and Maribyrnong Boathouse restaurants. This popular reality tv-show uses Social Media Components in its marketing quite effectively. Masterchef has its own as well as . The show has close to 95.000 fans on Facebook and over 6.000 followers on Twitter. They post 3.8 tweets/day approximately   read more

Social Media for Business -interview series presents prominent Internet professionals from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of the latest Social Platforms. During this exciting and truly international interview series our experts reveal what are the most useful Social Media Tools and what you need to consider when you start using Social Media as part of  your marketing mix. Alexei Kouleshov Alexei Kouleshov is a managing director of Your Easy Web Solutions, which is a web design and internet marketing company. Alexei has been working with Andrew and Daryl Grant since 2004 developing   read more

Lewis Howes Lewis Howes is a previous two sport collegiate All-American and also the NCAA All-Division Record Holder for the most receiving yards in a single football game. Lewis Howes has founded the Sports Executives Association and SportsNetworker.com which connects sports executives around the world. Lewis also represents sports companies and professional athletes with social media marketing and branding as he has successfully translated the mental and physical tools learned in sports to the business world. Q1. What are the most important Social Media platforms at the moment? The major three   read more

Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has created a new version of his famous original video “Social Media Revolution” which has received over 1.9 million views since July last year. Eric’s new version released earlier this month is a fresh and exciting look into the updated Social Media statistics and the phenomenal global growth of Social Media. Some of the interesting keypoints and facts include: Facebook is now topping Google for weekly traffic in US. Social Media has overtaken pornography as #1 activity on the web. Facebook added over 200.000.000 user in less than a year. 80% of   read more

Janne Muhonen Social Media for Business -interview series presents prominent Internet professionals from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of the latest Social Platforms. During this exciting and truly international interview series our experts reveal what are the most useful Social Media Tools and what you need to consider when you start using Social Media as part of  your marketing mix. Janne Muhonen is the director of New Businesses at Talentum Media in Helsinki, Finland. Talentum Media produces journals, professional literature, seminars and network content for professionals in   read more

Iggy Pintado Social Media for Business -interview series presents prominent Internet professionals from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of the latest Social Platforms. During this exciting and truly international interview series our experts reveal what are the most useful Social Media Tools and what you need to consider when you start using Social Media as part of  your marketing mix. Iggy Pintado is an accomplished and experienced business leader, executive, speaker and author from Sydney, Australia. He is an internationally recognized connection technology practitioner and a dedicated   read more

According to the first public Facebook user study done by Nielsen, Facebook Advertising works.  Nielsen studied more than 800,000 Facebook users as well as advertising campaigns from 14 different brands in several categories. Acccordi ng to the study those Facebook Ads which included mentions from friends who were already fans of the advertised products saw an increase in product recall of 16 %. The increase was 30 % when the ads coincided with a similar mention in the users’ News Feeds. Image - Courtesy of the Facebook Advertising Guide ISBN 978-0-9806484-7-8 The study showed a notable increase   read more

Shannon Shubert Social Media for Business -interview series presents prominent Internet professionals from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of the latest Social Platforms. During this exciting and truly international interview series our experts reveal what are the most useful Social Media Tools and what you need to consider when you start using Social Media as part of  your marketing mix. Shannon Shubert is a Social Media Marketing Expert from SanDiego California USA. Shannon brings Social Media to small businesses all the way up to fortune 100 companies teaching them how to use   read more

Facebook has recently released a new form of participation on Facebook. Additionally to the original Facebook Pages (Fan Pages, or Like Pages as they should be called now) and Facebook Groups you can now create Facebook Community Pages. The purpose of these Community Pages is that by creating one you can generate support for your favorite cause, hobby, pet, hockey league or just about any topic that you are passionate about. If your Community Page becomes popular, “it will be adopted and maintained by the Facebook community”. I wonder what that last sentence really means. Does it mean   read more