Local Apps that let you “Check-in” from your smart phones are becoming more and more common as a way for businesses to market to individual consumers and let those individual consumers market your business to others. The biggest benefactors right now are brick-and-mortar business. By using applications such as Foursquare, business can provide incentives for […]

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I”m sure you’ve probably heard about Foursquare by now. It”s been in the news, businesses have started advertising in their windows, “check-in with foursquare”, and young techno-savvy people all over the world are using it. But What Is Foursquare and Why Should You Use It? The main reason for using Foursquare is to connect you […]

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Why use URL Shorteners? As the Internet grows, so does the length of web page addresses. URL’s (uniform resource locator) are the web addresses you type into the address bar to find a website. But these addresses are getting longer and longer as more pages come online. Each address needs to be unique too. And […]

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Ok, so you’re a small business and you hear all this buzz about Twitter and social media. So you go to Twitter.com and create an account. Now what? What do you write about and how do you get followers? Well I’ve put together some of the most basic and easiest ways to increase the number […]

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Twitter can be powerful. It gives you reach. It gets your name in front of people on the web and on their phone. But it”s not about how many people you have following you. I mean, not everyone can be like Charlie Sheen and get 2+ million followers in a matter of days. You don’t […]

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You can’t keep them down. Egypt’s government blocked Twitter in hopes of squashing the protests. Then they blocked Facebook and Google, Blackberry, SMS services, and the rest of the Internet. With the Internet and mobile service down getting information from Egypt has been tough if not impossible at times. Over the weekend, Google and Twitter […]

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