http://www.socialmarketingreport.com Reporting the latest marketing insight from the social media world Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am quite passionate about the Internet, and as such I am always coming up with new ideas for websites and online businesses. At the same time I know that focus is vital if you want to achieve success, and I already have a couple of projects going on, so ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/business-idea-copyright-protection-for-web-publishers/ TECH CRUNCH - Mar 10 - Newly independent AOL is still struggling with the fate of Bebo, the social network they acquired for $850M in 2008. Bebo has fallen from 22M monthly unique visitors when it was acquired to 14.6M today (Comscore). But even so, Bebo clearly has some value on the open market. Despite that ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/why-aol-may-just-abandon-bebo-rather-than-sell-it/ People often ask me to have a look at brand new social networking sites. I typically decline, as I prefer to invest my time checking out social sites that have already gained acceptance. However, this week, when my blogging friend John from EZGreatLife.com sent me to a social media site that ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/new-business-site-for-personal-branding-and-social-media-aggregation/ TECH CRUNCH - Mar 8 - Facebook looks to be partnering with Eventbrite to let users sell tickets to the 3.5M events added to Facebook each month. And even though only a small percentage of events need ticket sales, lots of them want to give out free tickets. Eventbrite does that without any fee and ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/facebook-to-be-partnering-with-eventbrite/ This is a guest post by Nicholas Z. Cardot. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Far too often I find that people are getting caught up with the technical aspects of blogging like which plugins are the best, which designs are the most ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/blogging-dynamite-the-power-of-connections/ Let’s clear one thing right away: yes I am an affiliate for the coaching program I mentioning below, which means I’ll earn a commission if you end up purchasing it. But your trust is much more important to me than any commission I might earn, so rest assured I am ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/ever-considered-launching-a-membership-site/ TECH CRUNCH - Mar 8 - Flash game advertising network and payments platform Mochi Media is launching a social gaming platform and a $10M fund to invest in game developers. Mochi Social allow developers to build social features into their games such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to an activity stream. The platform ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/mochi-media-launches-10-million-investment-fund/ I obsess over my website search engine ranking and check my keyword search engine rankings more often than once a week. After all, who doesn’t want to achieve higher search engine rankings and get more web site traffic? However, top search engine ranking isn’t everything. There is much more to search ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/top-search-engine-ranking-isn%e2%80%99t-everything/ This is a guest post by Andreas Kambanis. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I’ve always considered logo’s the realm of big multinational companies. Companies like AOL or Amazon who have thousands of dollars to throw at new designs. Therefore, despite being constantly ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/5-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-99designs-com-contest/ Brand: Bud LightCampaign: Bud Light Super Bowl 2010Agency: Cannonball / DDB / Palm + Havas / MomentumSource: VisibleMeasures.com http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/the-top-viral-video-ad-campaign-updated-mar-2-2010/ READ WRITE WEB - Mar 4 - The popularity of Twitter has produced a number of clones in China, just as there are Facebook clones. Fanfou, Jiwai and Digu were some of the first Twitter clones to become successful in China. However all three - plus Twitter itself - were blocked by the Chinese government ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/chinas-twitter-clones/ This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. Allison asks: I’m considering setting up a website. Do I have to register a business before being able to charge for advertising space or other services I might offer? Do ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/do-i-need-to-register-a-business-to-make-money-with-my-website/ WSJ - Mar 4 - The eventual IPO of Facebook could make its founder the world's richest twenty-something. "We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees," Mr. Zuckerberg said during a recent interview. But, he added, "we are definitely in no rush." Mr. Zuckerberg has ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/facebook-ceo-in-no-rush-to-friend-wall-street/ As of today 11,969 people have already download the Make Money Blogging ebook. And what is more interesting, none of them ever asked for a refund! Jokes apart, the feedback to my free ebook has been terrific. I receive emails pretty much daily from people who read the book, liked it ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/because-10000-people-can%e2%80%99t-be-wrong/ CNET NEWS - Mar 2 - Hi5, a social network that changed its focus to gaming relatively recently, that it has built some code so that Facebook app developers can transport their creations to Hi5's platform with minimal effort. It's specifically targeting game developers. Beb announced a similar plan to accept Facebook apps late in ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/hi5-to-support-facebook-games/ I was browsing through my RSS feeds a couple of minutes ago and I came across an interesting post from the Google Webmaster Blog, titled Google’s Search Engine Optimization Report Card., The report was created to help Google’s engineers and employees better optimize their product pages for search engines. So yeah, ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/download-google%e2%80%99s-seo-report-card/ This is a guest post by Andrew Rondeau. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. As many of you know, this time last year I gave up the 9-5 corporate world and started working full time online. It was a move I had been ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/what-has-blogging-got-to-do-with-losing-weight-2/ This is a guest post by Andrew Rondeau. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. As many of you know, this time last year I gave up the 9-5 corporate world and started working full time online. It was a move I had been ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/what-has-blogging-got-to-do-with-losing-weight/ CBS NEWS - Mar 2 - Sex offenders in California will have one more roadblock in their efforts to lure young victims if lawmakers in Sacramento have anything to do with it. Norma Torres introduced the bill in January, which would make it a crime for California's 63,000 registered sex offenders to use any social ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/sex-offenders-out-of-social-networks/ A couple of months after creating this blog I installed a contact form. I had heard that it was the best way to protect myself from spam and to guarantee that I would receive only real and relevant messages from my visitors. The first part was true, as the spam ... http://www.socialmarketingreport.com/2010/03/weird-messages-that-come-through-a-contact-form/