He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only for a few days. On July 18, the company name 脸书科技 (Lian Shu Ke Ji) was registered in … [Read more...]
Were You Contacted By A Facebook ChatBot Today?
Most readers are likely unfamiliar with chatbot... Many have probably never heard the term. That's ok as chatbot is an emerging technology which is just making its way into our lives. Chatbot combines artificial intelligence with instant messaging, allowing humans to interact with bots. This can have far reaching applications including: Customer Service Interactive Toys Education Financial, … [Read more...]
SuitUpBros.com sells for $20,000 on Flippa, Was it a clever sale of a Facebook Page ?
By: Raymond Hackney The auction listing for SuitUpBros.com sold for $20,100 on Flippa, there were 59 bids made in the auction. The interesting part about this sale is that the value looks to be in the Facebook Fanpage that has over 500,000 Fans. Here is the description: With purchase of the domain, I am giving the buyer the Admin rights to my "Suit Up" Facebook fan page with 538k legitimate and … [Read more...]
Facebook to Charge $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg
By: RH Mashable and Search Engine Watch did reports on Facebook charging $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg. Mashable wrote: If you try to send founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a message on Facebook, Mashable discovered Thursday, the social network may offer to keep the message out of his "Other" Inbox — for a cool $100. In our tests from multiple accounts, it appeared to be the case that users only … [Read more...]
The Best Times To Post To Facebook, By Industry
By: RH Linchpin SEO has produced an infographic that discusses when is the best time to post to Facebook by specific industries. Facebook can be used to drive traffic to your blog or website and this infographic looks to help those in specific industries know what is the optimal time to post. Courtesy of Linchpin SEO … [Read more...]
Facebook the Top Search Term Four Years Running
By: RH Experian released their study of the Top 1,000 search terms and Facebook topped the list again. This was the fourth straight year that Facebook was the top search term. Facebook number 1 search term for 2012 Experian Marketing Services analyzed the top 1,000 search terms from Hitwise data for 2012 , and Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US. This is the fourth year that the social … [Read more...]
Facebook is the “Internet”
By: RH That was a reply I got when brokering a domain to a Fortune 1000 company. I was out with some people at a company get together and met the person in charge of marketing for a Fortune 1000 company. We were discussing domains for awhile, he mentioned he made the decisions for the company when it came to domain acquisition. I told him that I had a domain that I was brokering and felt it matched the … [Read more...]
Do you want your fair share from Facebook ?
Do you want to be compensated for helping Facebook get to a $100 billion valuation ? Sounds funny on the surface and be on the whole. I read an interesting article by Nick Bilton on the blogs section of the New York Times. Bilton wants $50 from Facebook for all his time helping to build up the site. He was making a joke or maybe not. Taken from the article: By my calculation, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s … [Read more...]
Everything you need to know about the Facebook IPO
With the Facebook IPO slated for the spring, here is a look at some things you need to know about the Facebook IPO. All this timing is still guesswork: even if this timeframe is accurate (it’s the most specific one we’ve heard so far), anything can change in today’s turbulent market, especially if questions from regulators press too hard. When it comes to the company going public, we’ve already … [Read more...]
The cost of marketing on Facebook
Some Facebook facts courtesy of Jeff Bullas 93% of Facebook users share shopping suggestions Brands are only responding to 50% of brand page posts 80% of users who received a response to their post made a purchase as a result of the interaction 47% of companies have generated leads from Facebook 41% of companies have closed deals from Facebook Average cost of obtaining a fan is $1.07 Almost … [Read more...]
