Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category


Can LinkedIn help my business?

LinkedIn is a business contact social networking site.  Linked in keeps you connected to the people who will help you land that new job or win the new piece of business.  Recommendations are key as many people are now viewing your profile before they hire you.
How can LinkedIn help me grow my business?  LinkedIn, like [...]

Is Plaxo beneficial for businesses?

What is Plaxo?  Plaxo is a social networking site like facebook but it is much more open ended allowing you to integrate “goings-on” from all of your social web involvement with sites such as Flickr, Twitter, Yelp & 30 other sites.
How can Plaxo help my business?  A majority of Plaxo’s ads come are from Google [...]

How Yelp can help me with my Business

What is Yelp? Yelp is an social network online city guide made up of real reviews from real people.  With yelp you can see what your friends and others are saying about restaurants, hair salons, acupuncturists, auto shops, etc…
How can Yelp help my business?  Yelp is great because it gives you a real gauge on [...]

Can Flickr help my business?

What is Flickr?  Flickr is a social photography and now video (<90 seconds) hosting web site.  It is also used by bloggers as a photo repository.
How can Flickr help me with my business? Now that images and video are showing up more and more in Google/Yahoo searches (it’s called blended search) companies that have pictures [...]

Can Boomj Effectively Reach Baby Boomers?

What is Boomj? Boomj is a social networking web site specifically for baby boomers and the Jones Generation.  There is a large shopping element and it has described as MySpace meets eBay.
How can Boomj be useful for my business? Companies with products specifically for Boomers and Jones generation will benefit here.  They offer advertising [...]

Orkut Explained

What is Orkut? Orkut is a Social Networking Site similar to Facebook and is owned by Google.  Though it is dwarfed in popularity in the U.S. by Facebook and MySpace, it is most visited site in Brazil and the 4th biggest in India.
How can Orkut help my business? The vast majority of users are [...]

What is Bebo?

What is Bebo? Bebo is a social networking site where you can connect with friends, share videos, photos, blogs.  It is almost an exact replica of Facebook.  Bebo is hugely popular in the U.K. and much less popular in the US.
How can Bebo be useful to my business? Though MySpace and Facebook dwarf Bebo [...]

Should my Business be on MySpace?

What is MySpace? MySpace is the most popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
How can MySpace help my business? The fruit has already been harvested here. MySpace reminds me of how bad internet advertising was 10 [...]

How can Facebook Help my Business?

What is facebook? Facebook is a social networking site that started for just college students and in the last year has spread like wildfire among 20, 30 and even 40 somethings. Unlike MySpace, the site is kept clean with each user having some but not total control of where she puts her pictures, [...]