Where Did the Term Black Friday Come From?
Almost everyone, especially the more serious shoppers, all know or have heard of the term “Black Friday” but where did the term Black Friday come from? Black Friday is the day that follows Thanksgiving day when retail stores offer early bird discounts and deals for the Holidays. Most Black Friday shoppers will even get up early in the morning just to line up in stores to get a share of great shopping deals. During Black Friday, stores are packed with huge crowds of eager shoppers who are aiming to save money and to get great buys for holiday gifts. Surely, many of these shoppers are...
Read MoreThe Benefits of Actively Using Social Media to Promote Your Brand
By far the biggest benefit of using these platforms such as Twitter and Facebook is the ability to build a community around your cause. Sell a tire cleaning formula? How valuable would 100,000 gearheads be to your business right now? What if you could have them help you develop the product, test it for you, and then spread the good word to ten friends each? If every person did this for you, you’d have a million people talking about your product, last time I checked that’d make you some serious ...
Read MoreSocial Media Reality
Social media is a new way to use the web, it involves jargon such as friending, adding, tweeting, and commenting. It involves both listening, and talking, both being there for friends, and engaging strangers, and it all is done on a daily basis by virtually everyone that is buying your stuff on the internet. Sell kitchen products? You can bet your core customer is on Twitter or Facebook sharing recipes, asking for advice on new products to buy, and yes, complaining about brands like...
Read MoreONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION ARE ONLINE
According to the organization of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), to the end of this year, Internet users will be the third of the world’s population – 2 billion people. In this case, five years ago, the number of Internet users was twice smaller: about one billion people. ITU report shows the gap in Internet penetration in more developed countries and regions of the Third World are very noticeable. If the first in the worldwide network out to 71% of the population, then the second group – no more than 21%. Specifically, it projected at the end of this year. Of the...
Read MoreHow to Get Started with Social News
While social bookmarking sites often display how many times a website has been bookmarked, social news usually comes with a voting system. This allows people to vote for good articles, and vote against bad articles. As a reader, this lets you quickly sort through the thousands of articles to find those with quality information. Social news is generally broken up into a ‘most popular’ list, which is comprised of articles receiving the most votes in the past few days or weeks, and an ‘upcoming’ list, which are new articles. Social news is also a place for commenting on...
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