Generation-Y, also known as the millenials or millenial generation, It is the generation following generation-X. There’s no agreed start to generation Y but it generally refers to people born after 1982.
Generation Y was the first generation to grow up with the internet. The internet rose exponentially in popularity during the lives of this generation. During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100% per year!
Getting more real likes to your Fan page ensures that your business stays publicized at all times. You can also tap into the extended networks of those that admire your brand.
One of the best methods of attaining plenty of facebook likes is through Facbook ads.
In order to do this, you first of all have to create a fresh ad for your Facebook page with a clear audience and location that you are targeting.
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Pinterest announced the launch of it’s new integrated analytics this morning.
With Pinterest, it really is all about the pictures. It’s a visual social network and its fast becoming one of the big dogs.
You can use this social media site to reach thousands of potential customers and spread the word about your business and brand. As with all the top social networks, a whole ecosystem of related apps and tools has started to develop around it.
More pictures, less words, seems to be the message that Pinterest is spreading, we like to be visually pleased…. So that said, we bring you a short article with plenty of pictures detailing some of the top tools for Pinterest.
Read MoreA run down of the latest social media demographics. Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook.. All the stats you need to know.Young adults are more likely than older adults to use major social media sites, while women, African-Americans, and Latinos are most likely to use Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest, according to new data from Pew Research.
Among major social media sites, Facebook is the most popular: 67% of online adults in the US use the social network.
Twitter ranks second with 16% penetration among online adults, followed by Pinterest with 15%, Instagram with 13%, and Tumblr with 6%.
You’ve had enough of business jargon and office talk, here’s some words that became popular in 2012 through social media in the UK.
Brandalism
The conflation of “vandalism” and “branding” describes a recent movement in which street artists stencil, paint and otherwise deface advertising billboards with their own designs. All in the name of Art. Each “artist” has their own signature or tag…The ironic thing is many of these “brandalisms” just feature the artists tag, looking remarkably similar to the campaigns used by the brands they are trying to rebel against.
Omnishambles
A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations. Notable omnishambles this year include G4S’ failure to meet the demands of this years olympic security contract and the governments handling of the proposal process for the west coast rail service contract.
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[caption id="attachment_111" align="aligncenter" width="465"] Social media in the UK infographic by Wrightway digital. All rights reserved.Data Source: Econsultancy, Social media compendium (November, 2012)[/caption]...
Read MoreOne of the first things most people do on Linkedin is sign up to a few groups. It’s good practice and aids in networking.
One of the down sides to this (as i’m sure some of our readers will have found out for themselves) is that you will start getting daily updates from these groups sent to your email. This is fine if you’re only signed up to a few groups or if you want to be kept informed of everything that happens in your groups.
For some people however this can be very annoying and its not immediately apparent how to turn these emails off..
Read MoreCompany Director Jonathan Wright gave a short talk at @Rockstar_group event in Liverpool yesterday;
For those that don’t know what Rockstar are, they are a the UK’s number 1 mentoring organisations for entrepreneurs looking to grow or raise finance.
Headed by Jonathan Pfahl (Goldman Sachs ‘golden child’) and chaired by Oliver Rothschild (of the infamous Rothschild banking family). High profile Mentors include; Clive Jacobs (Holiday Autos), Sir Erik Peacock(knighted in 2003 for his services to international trade),, Mark pritchard (Digital look) and Chelsey Baker (media and marketing expert).
Speakers at this event were Jonathan Pfahl, Karen Gould and our Director Jonathan Wright.
The event covered sales strategies for entrepreneurs, Jonathan Pfahl gave a very inspirational talk about how to do things right as an entrepreneur. He listed some interesting case studies of businesses the group had already helped gain success and then went on to comment on some social media strategies that were used by other people to target himself.
Read MoreA lot happens in a very short time online, Here's a few things that happen every minute; Over 695,000 Facebook status updates are made 98,000 tweets are tweeted 13,000 iphone applications are downloaded Around 168 million emails are sent Over 100 new Linkedin accounts are created Around 695,000 searches are made on Google Over 1500 blog posts are made Over 25 hours of video is watched on Youtube The saying "every minute counts" rings...
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