Blackberry 8830 World Edition

This phone was the gateway smartphone that kept me connected with the rest of the world at all times. Then iPhones and Android started to dominate the market. The beginning of the death of RIM could not have been swifter than it has been. The infographic below looks at the history, rise, and fall of RIM and the BlackBerry. RIP, old friend.

Source: MBA Online

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1. Understand the difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Push’

First of all, you need to know the basic of online marketing through the social channels. Your presentation style is more important than your product or service. So, make your profile according the point and it should be attractive to your targeted audiences. In this way, people will definitely pull towards to your profile and then to your services or products. So, it is the policy of ‘Pull’ and ‘Push’ is the just the opposite of it. Most of people use the ‘Push’ technique by directly mentioning about the services or products. Hence, you can understand that the ‘Pull’ technique is more effective than the ‘Push’.

2. Importance of content

This is the most imperative area where you need to show your actual smartness. You should publish or post those types of contents, which are related to your goal. Most of all, it should be to the point and attractive. Therefore, your blog or article is supposed to be attractive and it never should be too long. Lengthy blogs become boring and for that reason, people get out from there. Hence, try to make your content useful as much as possible.

3. Backlinking to your site shows amazing results

Link building is the most effective part of online business. While it come to do the same with the social media sites, it becomes more interesting. There are many things that you need to know regarding the link building in social sites. Many people use common anchor text in their back link like “Click Here”. Such style of link building is very old thought. So, you have to think something innovate as well as attractive. You should use attractive and appropriate keywords as your anchor text. Besides, you may also make use of image link building.

4. Identify the targeted people

Now, let’s come direct to the marketing field. First of all, you have to search for only those people, who are suitable with your products or services. For example, if you are selling mobile phones or ipods, then have to go for the college students or youth society. Conversely, if you are offering financial or loan services, then you have to look for the middle aged people. Try to make your target clear first. If you play blindly, then there is a big chance to lose.

Conclusion

Hence, you can understand that it social media sites are providing you so many features and facilities. It depends on you how you would make use of them. Just think smartly and get into work. Another important thing is that you have to identify the type of the social media site, which suits with your plan.

About The Author: Kate is a blogger by profession. She loves reading, writing and travelling. Recently, an article on Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 review grabbed her attention. These days she is busy doing a research on Energy Efficient Windows for her next piece.

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Many social media sites come up and make movements in the social media spectrum. Pinterest, an online pin-board launched in 2010 for displaying and sharing images, has grabbed huge momentum over the last several months. Ten million unique visitors come to the site every week and it already features millions of active users. Pinterest is a platform that bloggers can largely rely on to drive traffic to their sites. Since the images and content shared on the site will come to the attention of thousands of visitors, traffic to your blogs will go up. Pinterest is one of the world’s fastest growing social sites now. Here are a few features of Pinterest for new bloggers, who look for readers.

To get more backlinks

Getting more backlinks has a growing importance in driving enough visitors. Pinterest is the best place to get more links to your site. As soon as one user (may be either the blogger or the reader) pins a post, his/her connections will see the link and may show interest. That means the home site will get more back links in the Pinterest profiles of various users. This multiplying number of links will largely help bloggers get more traffic to their site.

Image friendly

In fact, the pin-board-style online service is originally meant for image sharing. Ben Silbermann has conceived the service for theme-based image collections. Bloggers often use images within their posts. So it is easy to share the posts on Pinterest. People will be excited to see the images, which are listed under specific categories and sections. On clicking over the images, visitors can access to the blogs that have published the images originally.

To increase traffic

Every blogger longs for increased traffic to their sites. For a while, bloggers have been depending on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to share their posts with the friends and others. Pinterest is certainly one of the best platforms to share such posts with backlinks to the original sources. As long as a post is pinned by many users, the original site may get more visitors, who will certainly come back to your site if they like it on their first visit.

Lets readers find the best content

Pinterest largely helps readers find the best content. If a post is worth reading, users will pin and repin it on the site. Readers can thus find the best available content from various sites on the platform. So if you update your sites with impressive images and content, people will largely come from Pinterest to it.

Keeps your blog active

It is yet another feature of Pinterest. With lots of new users joining the service day-to-day, posts and images shared on the platform will get enough readers. Moreover, your posts will be the center of discussion on the site, thus making your blog active on Pinterest and its users.

These are five interesting things a blogger can utilize on Pinterest. With an aim to get enough traffic to the site, bloggers should add a Pinterest button in their posts alongside the Facebook, Twitter and Google+ buttons. Readers will pin your posts and they will later drive more visitors to your site.

About The Author: Kate is a blogger by profession. She is fond of reading, writing and decorting her house. Recently an article on living room design ideas grabbed her attention. These days she is busy doing a research on iPhone hacks for her next piece.

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Much to my surprise, though, I was unaware that females are the dominant gender on Facebook on Twitter (especially Twitter), but the dominance isn’t staggering much like Pinterest (females) and Google+ (males).

This infographic delves more into social networks and their demographics including income, education, and age.

Big thanks to OnlineMBA for sending me this infographic.

Source: http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/social-media-demographics/

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Big thanks to Online Universities for sending this one my way.

I’m interested in your thoughts on this one, folks. Please leave some comments!

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Overall, I really like the layout and design of this graphic, but I wish the information would have gone a bit more in depth and would have given more examples.  The design could have been re-done to condense some of the information and use a little less white space and slightly smaller type.

While I find social media to be a great platform for learning, content creation and aggregation, not everyone buys into the social media appeal, nor should they be required to create an account in order to supplement their education. The exception to this, of course, is a class that’s focused on online marketing and communication principles.  The infographic’s pre-health professional case study is great, but when I look at the average GPA score, it’s still below impressive (assuming the GPA score is on a 4.0 scale).  I guess my concern is that a number of students that are not social or tech savvy would be deterred and turned off by the education provided in the class and wouldn’t benefit from the use of social media at all.  This opinion, though, does not include services such as Desire to Learn (D2L) and Blackboard.

Either way, opinions aside, check out the infographic and let me know what you think.  Big thanks to Educational Psychology for sending this to me.

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Big thanks to MedicalBillingAndCodingCertification.net, a site that focuses on the ICD-10 World Health Organization set of standards for diseases.

Remember, a healthy developer is a happy developer!

Source: http://medicalbillingandcodingcertification.net/you-need-sleep/

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Today’s infographic comes from MBAOnline and focuses on what a day in the internet looks like in terms of media creation and consumption, as well as time spent on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and even Pinterest.  The numbers are daunting, especially when observing internet activity and media consumption 10… or even 5 years ago.

Enjoy, folks, and remember, to see the infographic more clearly, click on the image for a full-sized view!

Source: http://www.mbaonline.com/a-day-in-the-internet/

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Though a lot of the facts are true in this infographic, remember that small changes in lifestyle can have a big impact!

Thanks for sharing this with me, Online University.

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