The internet age has changed the way that business communicate and compete with one another. Internet review
s can have a drastic effect on your brand, whether positive or negative. Google hasn’t missed this. This is why they offered $550 million to buy Yelp, which contains about nine million local reviews of various businesses.
Local business reviews are a new kind of social media, in which customers review their experiences with brands over the internet. Business directories such as Yelp, Citysearch, and Yellowpages.com allow for customers to post what they think of the businesses that they have dealt with.
decreased subscription rates and falling ad revenue. Many publishers have already gotten their feet wet in the digital world by maintaining limited on-line versions of their papers, but with the Apple iPad now upon us the question becomes, will digital publishing be the death of the traditional newspaper? Some experts believe it will.
Social media and mobile define the ways fans communicate with each other when watching the FIFA World Cup, according to research from the Internet Advertising Bureau and ESPN.
Social networks are becoming more popular than search engines in the UK, according to figures from Experian Hitwise, but are you more likely to gain the quality of traffic that search engines can provide?
As discussed last week, social media can be used to your advantage when promoting your business. However, it is all well and good using social platforms as a means for marketing, but you also need to monitor your activity to clearly identify how successful you really are. The tools below can help you achieve this.