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FACEBOOK TIPS: How to Use Facebook Photo Sharing Effectively

Guest Blogger — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:11:40 +0000

Facebook’s photo sharing feature has become increasingly popular among Web users. This feature has enabled people to share their special moments with their family and friends all over the world. Besides individuals, businesses have also taken advantage of Facebook photo sharing as a social media marketing tool to promote their products and services. The following are some guidelines that will help you use Facebook’s photo sharing feature more effectively. Name your albums Facebook automatically stores uploaded photos into an ‘untitled album’ (usually with the date of upload). You can change or arrange such albums easily according to your personal needs. When creating an album, the first thing to do is to appropriately name the album. Facebook automatically names albums according to the date when they were uploaded. However, a name such as ‘August 8, 2011’ is not likely to grab anyone’s interest. Therefore, select titles which are catchy and relevant to the photos contained in the album. Customize the album - Read the full article

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38 Inspiring Premium Magento Themes

Chris Campbell — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:08:51 +0000

When it comes to e-commerce, Magento has really staked its claim as the most modern and widely used e-commerce platform. Magento is perfect for e-commerce businesses that want to have a strong online store presence. We scoured the web to find 38 of the most beautiful premium Magento Themes. Here is a great list for anyone that might be interested in upgrading their current Magento based site or for someone that wants to open an ecommerce site. Either way, these themes are beautiful to look at, so even if you don’t end up using any of them, you can definitely get some inspiration. We compiled these themes from a wide range of websites & believe we have accrued a well rounded collection of some of the best and most beautiful Magento themes. They are all organized according to the website that sells them. Enjoy! Boutique – Magento Theme $80 Demo Buy Sheets Magento Commerce Theme $90 Demo Buy T-Shirt Store - Read the full article

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19 Awesome WordPress Wedding Themes

Chris Campbell — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:15:59 +0000

Sometimes, here at Lakeshore Branding we get some odd requests. We have had clients that ask us for help on wedding blogs and where to go for some online wedding themes. In response to these requests, we created WordPress Wedding Themes, a blog dedicated to showing you some of our favorite WordPress wedding themes. First, here’s our take on a few crucial attributes to What makes a good wedding blog. Follow the link for a more in depth take on the criteria. 1. Photography- Good photography is essential. In an ever advancing world of High Definition, Bush League photography is unacceptable 2. Content- Nothing professional required here. Genuine, from the heart diction will make a wedding blog stand out. 3. Wedding Site- We’ve all seen the outdated web sites that look like they’re still hosted by Angelfire or Geocities. While you also don’t need the most cutting edge web page, don’t settle. WordPress is the white knight of DIY websites. 4. Have Fun!- Call Captain - Read the full article

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66 Impressive Business WordPress Themes

Chris Campbell — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:45:08 +0000

An ever-expanding set of WordPress themes also guarantees that you look the part. If you’ll notice from the last few weeks, we’ve been creating lists of WordPress themes that we hope will reflect your business identity as well as complement your branding strategy. Today? We bring you another list: this time, it’s a set of 45 Business WordPress themes. We think they’re all awesome. If you have a favorite, let us know by leaving your comment below. We hope you’ll also share the list to others by tweeting the list and posting it on Facebook. Kids Toys WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy Radial WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Smoke WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Hotel Classica WordPress Theme $30.00 | Demo | Buy Sport and Grunge WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy Cars Dealer WordPress Theme $35.00 | Demo | Buy Child Care Creative WordPress Theme $40.00 | Demo | Buy - Read the full article

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Your Guide to Creating a Twitter Archive

Chris Campbell — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:19:59 +0000

According to a scene in the acclaimed movie, The Social Network, “the Internet is written in ink – (and) not in pencil”. But if that’s really the case, how come it’s close to impossible to browse and search old tweets on Twitter? How come our 140-character text updates seem to have expiration dates on them? Note that we say, “close to impossible”: operative word is ‘close’. Because surely, there must be a way, right? There must be a way somehow to archive your tweets (or someone else’s) so that you could read, search, share, and store them all in one place. And there must be a way to access those precious tweets whenever the Fail Whale pays Twitter servers a visit. Worry not. There is a way. Or ways. Here’s Lakeshore Branding’s quick guide to creating your very own Twitter archive. (While you’re at it, be sure to check out our own Twitter archive!) Twitter archive via WordPress Thanks to - Read the full article

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This Week in Online Marketing: Google Groupon Deal, Diaspora

Chris Campbell — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:07:35 +0000

Google-Groupon Deal? Search giant Google is reported to be offering as much as $6 billion for leading e-Commerce coupon site, Groupon. According to a number of media sources, the deal’s initial payment will be worth about $5.3 billion, with the remaining $700 million to be used as an incentive for keeping Groupon’s employees. The deal, if it happens, is going to be Google’s largest acquisition yet, much bigger than its successful $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick and the $1.65 billion price tag of the company’s YouTube deal. Launched in November 2008 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Groupon is a social shopping network that delivers daily deals to users in cities across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. While the price of the rumoured acquisition seems high – Groupon only has an estimated $600 million in revenue – industry observers say that the coupon site is the clear leader in a rapidly growing new category on the Internet. Its overwhelming success in - Read the full article

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RockMelt: The Social Web Browser?

Chris Campbell — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:39:26 +0000

A new web browser has been unveiled by the people who brought us Netscape 16 years ago. RockMelt, founded by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes, was released Monday as a “re-imagined” web browser that is designed to serve as a social networking hub, tightly integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites into a traditional web page navigation program. RockMelt allows users to “share easily, search faster, connect with friends, and keep up on news”; since the Monday release of its early version, the new browser has gotten industry observers in and beyond Silicon Valley talking. The RockMelt browser is based on Google Chrome’s HTML-5-compliant and open-source Chromium foundation (which is why you might perhaps echo our same initial sentiments, “It kind of looks like Chrome”). However, what makes RockMelt different from Chrome (or Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari) is that it actually frames the social media experience – Facebook updates, chats, Twitter streams, etc. – within its browser, - Read the full article

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Flickr for Small Business: 14 Tips for the Social Media Tool Few Are Using

Chris Campbell — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:54:40 +0000

A number of the world’s biggest businesses and brands are using Twitter. Chances are, they’re also using Facebook. And their employees are using LinkedIn, to connect with other professionals. How do you, as a small business owner, set yourself apart from the competition? Obviously you’ll have to be more creative with leveraging social media, and with finding alternative platforms where you can engage with customers. You’ll have to seize overlooked opportunities for marketing, or create these opportunities where none exist. Start by knowing there are other social networking tools in town. Like Flickr, for example. Okay, so we can almost hear you say it. Flickr? Really? How do you use that for marketing? Um, isn’t Flickr a picture community for hobbyists and photographers and artists? Just like Vimeo is a video community? And doesn’t Flickr explicitly say that you can’t use the site for commercial purposes? All of the questions above have a point, but that doesn’t mean you can’t - Read the full article

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Who Should Use Tumblr and Why

Chris Campbell — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:46:45 +0000

Twitter and Facebook: yes, sure, everyone’s heard of these social media giants. But there’s another name that’s slowly but steadily catching the attention of media companies, businesses, and celebrities – and one which you, as an Internet marketer, business owner, or startup, might want to check out for yourself. It’s called Tumblr. Tumblr has actually been around for awhile – it was launched nearly four years ago – but it’s only now that the potential of this easy blogging service is being recognized and realized by the world of social media users. In a nutshell, Tumblr is a platform for blogging, much like WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type, and Posterous, but what makes it different from these other platforms is its ability to “socialize” its service. Tumblr isn’t just for strictly “writerly” bloggers or Dear Diary writers; it’s for anyone who wants to share anything, from text passages, quotes, photos, links, music videos, etc. at the click of a button. In - Read the full article

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Small Business Lessons from The Social Network, That New Facebook Movie

Chris Campbell — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:27:00 +0000

We’re sure you’ve heard of The Social Network, this new movie about the founders of Facebook. It opened earlier this month and so far, from what we’ve been hearing, it sounds like this 120-minute thriller-docudrama-comedy will be making plenty of noise at next year’s Oscars. You should see The Social Network if you haven’t done so yet. Not only is it a thrilling closer look at what went on behind the creation of today’s biggest social networking site; it’s also a really, really good movie. You don’t even have to be a Facebook fan to enjoy it. Directed by David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club), written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, A Few Good Men), and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, and huge pop musician Justin Timberlake, The Social Network – as Rolling Stone describes it – “brilliantly defines the decade”. Of course, if you’re a startup, small business owner, or marketer, you also might want - Read the full article

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