Is social media a fad? or is it the biggest shift since the industrial revolution? Here are some facts about social media to help you make up your mind. 1. By 2010 Generation Y will outnumber baby boomers. 96% of them have joined a social network. 2. Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 Read the rest of this page »

Andy Warhol said “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”. Do you want your 15 minutes of fame?  Well, all you have to do is have a public outburst worthy of news coverage, and BAng! nearly 40,000 Facebook fans. That’s what happened to Steven Slater, a Jet Blue Read the rest of this page »

A host of social media monitoring tools are available to monitor conversations that are relevant to your brand or company. Many of these tools also now offer built-in engagement components that allow you to easily engage in relevant conversations. In addition to ease of use, another key benefit Read the rest of this page »

Time Management for Your Online Business And the secret to any truly successful Internet business is… tweaking and maintaining your website. Think of your Internet business as a garden. It may look great when you plant it, but if you stop tending it and just walk away, it will turn into a Read the rest of this page »

LinkedIn has added some realy good applications to it Linked Applications Directory for you to ad to your LinkedIn Profile. LinkedIn Applications enable you to enrich your profile, share and collaborate with your network, and get the key insights that help you be more effective. Applications Read the rest of this page »

Did you know that if you write your content so that it naturally “reads very well,” you will naturally gain some bonus for having created quality content. By this I mean content…that reads well to a human being. Use moderation in everything you do. One of the things you need Read the rest of this page »

What are the main differences between facebook fan pages and group pages? The 2 major differences include: Unlike groups, fan pages are visible to unregistered people and are thus indexed (important for reputaion management, for example); Unlike pages, groups allow to send out “bulk invite” Read the rest of this page »

Facebook has shut down its Lite site witch was aimed at those on slow internet connections. The site was set up last September and was notable for removing much of the clutter – including apps and chat – that many believe has become the bane of the social network. Instead users were Read the rest of this page »

  This week on Time Magazine, seas Facebook dominate the front cover. The cover story talks about facebook and how it has redefined privacy and talked to Mark Zuckerberg who found Facebook in his dorm room as a way for Ivy League students to keep tabs on one another.   Here is an excerpt for Read the rest of this page »

Everyone wants to know and find out ways to increase traffic to their websites. Unfortunately this is not a simple push a button and you will receive more visitors to your website tip. It involves allot of hard work and patience. It means nothing by receiving a 1000 un-targeted visitors and hits Read the rest of this page »

Recently we gave a talk to the Learning Waves skill net. Learning waves was set up on 2004 to provide training for Independent Commercial Radio Stations. Their members include all of the Independent Commercial Radio Stations in Ireland at National, Regional and Local Level.  We talked to Read the rest of this page »

WSI Marketing and Galway Executive Skillnet are proud to announce that we will be running an Internet Marketing & Website Makeover Workshop on May 13th. This workshop will focus on enabling business owners and marketing executives to evaluate their current internet marketing strategies and Read the rest of this page »

In recent weeks we have been giving social media talks to many radio stations across Ireland. In response to the question “what radio stations are on Facebook and Twitter”, we decide to check out who was and was not on these social media portals. We decided to look for them in a similar way Read the rest of this page »

To grow your online business, you need a high flow of new customers. How will they get to your website? How can you increase the constant flow of new visitors to your website? Organic SEO: Search Engine Optimization uses keywords in the text, headings, page names and META tags. Links from other Read the rest of this page »

On April 21st at the Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor took the stage to show off a major new Facebook feature: a Like button for your website. Taylor announced that these buttons were ready to be implemented on sites across the web starting today. You Read the rest of this page »