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Twitter is a real-time information network that connects people to the latest information about what they find interesting. It is now reporting to have over 200 million registered users, that use small text based status posts of up to 140 characters to spread their views, news, and general Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the ...

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Similar to traditional Facebook ads, Sponsored Stories build upon existing organic interactions that occur between people and your business. People are naturally interested in the things that their friends care about, which makes this advertising feature very highly targeted, and offers the same demographic and budget control flexibility that comes with standard Facebook Ads. Sponsored stories can help you to ...

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Facebook offer a powerful advertising platform, named Facebook Ads. Low click through rates, mixed with very flexible targeting options allows for a great opportunity to kick start any Facebook marketing campaign. Target adverts directly to Facebook applications, events, your Facebook Page, or back to your website. This can help to build awareness, drive sales and grow your fan base depending ...

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Whilst the spotlight is currently on social networking as the online marketing goldmine, it’s easy to forget that the good old blog still has its uses in e-commerce website design. Here are just a few ways in which more emphasis on blogging can benefit your business: Better search engine optimisation Blogs lend themselves to the type of content search engines ...

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A Facebook Page is the public home for an organisation or entity on Facebook. Whether this be a brand, company, sports team, or public figure for example, it should be something that someone can “like”. Examples of huge brands with Facebook Pages Coca Cola – www.facebook.com/cocacola Red Bull – www.facebook.com/redbull Youtube – www.facebook.com/youtube MTV – www.facebook.com/MTV Page Tabs & Apps ...

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Facebook’s meta tags, or more commonly known as the Open Graph, offers a way to optimise your website, and leverage your existing data in a way that allows for a more enhanced social connection between you and your users. Who can it benefit? The Open Graph is designed for web pages that represent profiles of real world things – such ...

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Search Engine giant, Google – having recently delved into social networking with Google+ – has come up with a new search feature that combines the two. It’s called Search Plus Your World (SPYW) and it could prove to be a major feature in e-commerce web design. Users that are logged into their Google accounts – including Google+ and Gmail – ...

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Social plugins are a quick and simple way to engage your website visitors socially, through small widgets that are embedded in your website. They allow you to see what your friends have liked, commented on or shared on sites across the web. 1. Like Button The Like button lets users share pages from your site back to their Facebook profile ...

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Some of the world’s largest brands are using Facebook to engage with their fans and communities. Such brands include Red Bull with 22 million fans, Starbucks with 25 million fans, Coca Cola with 34 million fans, and the up and coming Vitamin Water with almost 3 million fans. Adding an extra twist to their marketing campaign, Vitamin Water recently opted ...

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IDE Systems has launched a brand new website for 2012 to bring it right up to date with current web technology and to get the company involved with all the social elements that are critical for success in today’s business environment. Designed by iWeb using WordPress, the site is crisp, clear and encourages visitors to interact through social networking including ...

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The great thing about Magento e-commerce and WordPress in particular is they are open source platforms. There is a whole community of Magento developers out there designing new plug-in and apps – and some of them are very useful indeed. WordPress is easily the most popular platform used for blogging in ecommerce website design. So we’ve compiled a list of ...

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At the time of writing, Facebook is reporting to have more than 750 million active users. If the Facebook population was counted as a country, it would be the third largest in the world behind China and India. It needs no more introduction for almost any organisation to see its potential. Facebook was originally setup in 2004 for students, by ...

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