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Social media is an ever evolving environment. A few years ago, it seemed like MySpace was an essential part of any successful social media marketing campaign. Not yet halfway through 2011, it is obvious that MySpace is all but dead and that all your focus should on using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. If you want to use social media to boost your exposure and create more leads-- and you should-- you have to know which are the social networks

In just a few years, Twitter has profoundly altered the way people communicate and share information. There are over 250 million people using Twitter, and that number continues to climb every month. In 140 characters or less, people share instant news about what they're doing on a day-to-day basis. As a result, Twitter offers businesses a tremendous marketing resource. If you can harness the power of Twitter, you can dramatically increase your online exposure to get found by potential customers

Late Monday, Facebook announced a limited-release launch of Facebook Deals, which is a group-based local coupon deals that will rival Groupon and LivingSocial. Facebook Deals launches a trial balloon run on Tuesday in five American cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco. This is big news. If Facebook Deals takes off--and most insiders think it will--it offers tremendous new ways for your business to create more leads and sales by harnessing the power of Facebook. Facebook Deals will

On Wednesday, Google announced that it is launching a new social search button called the +1. This news is being interpreted as Google's answer to Facebook's like button. Indeed, many see this as Google's attempt to take a page from Facebook and incorporate social search into its search results. The +1 button is going to appear right next to Google's search results as well as its AdWords ads. Soon, site owners and web publishers will be allowed to add the

By now, you're probably aware of Facebook's marketing force. The social network has over 600 million users, and it is estimated that some time this decade the majority of the world's population will be using Facebook! While Facebook is still taking shape, one thing is certain. Facebook offers you immediate and constant communication with potential customers like never before in the history of the world. So we wanted to take a few minutes to explain how your business can use

Social media is more important than ever when it comes to your SEO strategy. Many businesses jumped on the social media bandwagon a long time ago and secured accounts on all of the major social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Now the accounts are just sitting there. With social media SEO campaigns, more is not always better. You don’t want customers to be confused if they see two similar accounts on one social media platform. To get organized,