Salesforce buys Buddy Media for $700 Million

Joseph ComoWebsite Tools

The cloud-computing giant, Salesforce, announced the purchase of social-media company Buddy Media for almost $700 million. Salesforce faces increased competition from Oracle and other software pwerhouses. Oracle is ready to announce its Public Cloud service, most likely launching it this week.  With launch of Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle is inducing a major technological challenge to Salesforce. Buddy Media focuses on social network marketing, selling …

Social Media Brings Back Discontinued Favorites

Joseph ComoWebsite Tools

Just when you find the perfect moisturizer or the ideal shampoo it gets discontinued.  Right? Perhaps you spent a lot of time searching for just the right product only to have it disappear from the shelves never to return.  Sure you complained, but that did little to get the manufacturers attention.  Now, thanks to social media like Facebook and Twitter, consumers are fighting back and …

What Are People Saying About Your Company?

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There are ways to find out what people are saying about your company, your products and your advertising. Tip #1:  Set up to receive Google Alerts. Google Alerts crawl the internet for any reference to a topic you are tracking and will alert you in an email.  Let’s say, for example, you want to track your company name or product.  Anytime they …

Social Media Marketing Using Multi Media

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Social Media Marketing Using Multi Media Using multi media as a marketing tool on the internet includes things like videos, photos, and audio recordings.  Learning and implementing these types of things can be challenging for small businesses.  The up-side is they can provide great social media marketing results. Tip #1:  YouTube is good social site for small businesses. If you …