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Beyond Facebook & Twitter: 7 Social Media Sites for Online Marketing

Omar Kattan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:06:52 +0000

Online marketing strategies must include a social media presence to succeed. A lot of fuss is given to Facebook and Twitter as the end-all of social media networks. It is important to focus some attention on these two... Read more..

Stop Selling Ice to Eskimos. 3 TIPS For An Inspired Content Strategy

Omar Kattan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:14:44 +0000

[caption id="attachment_3925" align="alignright" width="266" caption="Stop selling ice to Eskimos, a cherry in the middle ain't gonna help!"][/caption] Industry pundits believe 2012 will be the year of content marketing. Actually, Read more..

THE Ultimate KICK-ASS List of Twitter #Hashtag Suggestions [WIP]

Omar Kattan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:08:15 +0000

Twitter fans, do you share my frustration with the Twitter Hashtag selection process? Do you spend minutes (equivalent to hours in the real world) agonizing about that perfect hashtag for your tweet? And once you've decided and tweet... Read more..

5 Tips for Marketing with #Hashtags

Omar Kattan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:48:56 +0000

A hashtag, for the uninitiated, is a # symbol placed before a word or series of words, with no spaces in between. The practice originated on Twitter, first pinoneed by Read more..

Online Privacy: Be Afraid, Be Eternally Afraid!

Omar Kattan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:43:35 +0000

[caption id="attachment_3472" align="alignright" width="339" caption="St. Peter Checking in Steve Jobs at Gates of Heaven - Picture Courtesy of New Yorker Magazine"][/caption] They say that Saint Peter keeps a record of every scrap of information about each of our lives in his Big Black Book. They’re wrong;... Read more..

6 Reasons Why Every Small Business Should Be on Twitter [TIPS]

Omar Kattan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:17:16 +0000

We live in an increasingly wired world. This represents both a challenge and an opportunity for small business owners. The proliferation of social media and online content can level the playing field between those small firms and their much larger competitors. The online world also presents some dangerous pitfalls. Makin... Read more..

Mobile Coupons: Have You Considered the Marketing Opportunity? [Guide]

Omar Kattan — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:43:12 +0000

A time-honoured way for a business to build a loyal customer base is to offer promotions and discounts. Even with the rise in electronic and digital forms of information, coupons are more popular than ever. Mobile coupons deserve a place in your marketing strategy. What are mobile coupons? Mobile coupons are promotions... Read more..

Don’t Be the Next BP: Secure Your Social Media Username Today

Omar Kattan — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:44:02 +0000

Most business owners know to check if a domain name is still available when thinking about building a website. But assuring the availability of a ‘Twitter handle’, a Twitter username, or any other social media related username is often overlooked. With the rise of social media, it is be... Read more..

The Role of Social Media in the Current Japanese Crisis

Omar Kattan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:53:43 +0000

The Japanese crisis has highlighted the potential usage of social media websites to spread information very quickly amongst an enormous amount of people, especially during times of crises. With the advent of social media websites such as Twitter, M... Read more..

9 Tips to Encourage Digging, Stumbling, Tweeting, Liking, and Social Networking

Omar Kattan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:43:34 +0000

Bloggers love it when readers share their posts across social networking sites. The tweets and likes and diggs are a nice pat on the back and let bloggers know they're not just talking to the electron cloud. You can increase the amount of sharing across multiple channels by taking a proactive approach to blogging and social networking. 1 ) Make it easy. Plaster “share” buttons all over your blog—at the beginning of posts, at the end, in the sidebars, in the footer... everywhere. With blog plugins making it easy to include those buttons in various places, it... Read more..

8 Social Media Marketing Myths

Omar Kattan — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:52:40 +0000

Whether you’re part of a big corporation or own your small business, chances are that you’ve thought about social media marketing. There are definite advantages of using this medium if you know what you’re doing. The problem is that there are a lot of things that people don’t know about. Here are eight myths about social media marketing that people think they know. Read more..

Advanced Search Operators from Twitter

Omar Kattan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:31:24 +0000

Twitter has advanced search operators that allow you to find specific Tweets on any topic. For instance, with the World Cup now over, using Twitter you can find really interesting stats, content etc. Here is a sample of some useful advanced search operators from Twitter: Operator Finds tweets... world cup containing both "world" and "cup". This is the default operator. ... Read more..

Real Time Search – The Twitter Model

Omar Kattan — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:38:11 +0000

Think back, way back. Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search? How time flies. Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it? Is Twitter the next Google? Maybe not yet, but to a large extent, Twitter is re-defining what search is by introducing th... Read more..

Top 10 SEO Consultants To Follow on Twitter

Omar Kattan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:59:49 +0000

SEO is a fast changing industry and keeping up with the latest SEO news and techniques is paramount to a successfull SEO career. Thankfully, the internet has provided the means to stay on top of the industry through various technologies including RSS feeds, email lists and now...Twitter! Below is a list of 10 of the best SEO consultants to follow on Twitter: 1- Read more..

2 Reason to Adopt A Social Media Optimisation Strategy

Omar Kattan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:02:13 +0000

During the past few years, the internet saw a surge in social media properties including: the grand daddy of them all... My Space, Facebook (the reigning king), YouTube... Read more..

Traditional vs Web 2.0 Link Building

Omar Kattan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:18:27 +0000

Link popularity has a major influence on search engine ranking. After all, Google's algorithm and what distinguished it from its earlier rivals such as Alta Vista, was based on exactly that ... Link Popularity.

Given the importance of Link Popularity, its worthwhile to examine all link building methods and the best way to do that is to split Link Building into 2 sections: Traditional Link Building and Web 2.0 Link Building.

Be... Read more..