Our take on what’s happening in the world of social media and word of mouth marketing: the good, the bad, and the buzz-worthy!
We write a lot about marketing on Facebook, building communities using Facebook fan pages, Facebook advertising, and other developments on and innovations for the constantly-changing-and-improving Facebook platform. But where do we find all of our Facebook news, and where should you check? Here are our Top 5 Facebook News sources:
1) Inside Facebook This blog, written [...]
Yesterday facebook announced new ad targeting they’re calling “friends of connections” so that advertisers can now exclusively target friends of their current fans. Reported on by Inside Facebook and All Facebook, the targeting option allows for advertisers to serve ads exclusively to friends of fans they already have, resulting in ads such as the screenshot [...]
T.G.I. Friday’s is currently running a major campaign, with a large national TV advertising budget, paid search, and interactive money all driving traffic to a Facebook Fan Page. The idea is gimmicky but arguably clever: “Woody”, the ultimate fan of T.G.I. Friday’s, has challenged them to a contest – If he can get 500,000 fans [...]
It’s that time again – voting season has begun for South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference presenters. SXSW has three components: Interactive, Film and the most widely known, Music. As a member of theKbuzz team, the most exciting category is by far the Interactive one for me! The 5 days in March are jam-packed with keynotes [...]
For social media / internet marketing junkies like me, social media marketing and tech news is like a (safe) drug: We crave it, we always want more, and we love to share it. So yesterday, then, was a heavenly overdose we won’t soon forget. In case you missed it, here a brief review and analysis [...]
Yesterday, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs released a demographics report of Facebook users with trending patterns from January through June of this year. The same day, Justin Smith of Inside Facebook released his own data indicating recent demographic trends. Both sets of data indicated the same thing: Strong growth in virtually every age category above 25, [...]
Earlier today, Inside Facebook blogged about the “I <3 being in bed” public profile selling status updates on Ebay.
Then, AllFacebook writer Nick ONeill notes that SocialReach has been taken down for violation of Terms of Service.
All of this is going down as I am on a conference call with yet another business that is set [...]
Ever since we received our own facebook.com/theKbuzz vanity URL, we’ve head from hundreds of webinar participants and clients curious about procuring their own easily sharable Facebook URL. Up until now, we’ve had very little to report except that Facebook only offers them to a limited number of businesses and clients. According to Justin [...]
Facebook has just added a much deeper, better insights/analytics dashboard to all of its Public Profiles. Inside Facebook first reported earlier in the week that this was coming, but the insights just went live to all Public Profiles a few minutes ago. I just took a first look at some of theKbuzz client’s Pages insights, [...]
Over the past couple of days on AllFacebook, Mashable and Inside Facebook there’s been posts about the latest Facebook scam where phishing sites are asking for visitors to login with their Facebook account information to steal Facebook user passwords. Over the course of two days two different phishing websites have been identified. Victims to this [...]
