Yesterday, it has been officially announced by CEO and co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zukerberg that Facebook user base has finally crossed the 1 billion mark. Anyway, it is just a matter of time and the time is NOW.
Also, in a separate earlier report from Socialbakers.com, Asia is the largest Continent with 256 millions users. Today, I am going to share a slide that I've prepared recently on the Facebook's Top 10 Asian Countries. Check out the slide below (if your browser is not able to view this embedded slideshow, click on the link below the slide to view it in slideshare):
For those of you who are are watching the online space long enough will know that online advertising is a huge and booming business. It is estimated that the online advertising spending in 2012 is valued at USD94.2 billions (USD39.5 billions in US alone) [source: GO-Gulf.com].
The current giant and top online advertising network provider is non other than Google (enjoying 44.1% market share [source: GO-Gulf.com]). Of course, the other social media giant, Facebook is gaining its momentum in the online advertising space as well. Check out the following infographic from Wordstream detailing how each of them performed in the area like Advertising Reach, Revenue/Growth and Ads Format etc. (click/download the image for the expanded image).
I believed most of you folks would have a few social media accounts, among them, I am pretty sure that facbook will comes up top or second in your social networking activities. For me, facebook is my top social media both for personal sharing as well as my internet marketing venture.
Talk about facebook, I believed the last major revamp is the introduction of the Timeline. I know it has been quite awhile but noticed that there are still a number of users doesn't find it (the timeline) attractive and resort to the older user profile. For me, I find the timeline more graphical and catchy, also, it does provide more control for the user to place the more important message/statuses in a more prominent section/position of the overall timeline.
However, one challenge that many of us are facing is to find out the appropriate sizes and dimensions of photos/videos for various section of the timeline that can yield a perfect view. Here comes the help, the Facebook Cheat Sheet (sizes and dimensions) from dreamgrow.com, presented in an easy to digest infographic format:
I am sure you folks are aware by now that Social Media is getting more and more critical when comes to internet marketing. It plays a major role in Public Relation, Customer Service, and Traffics/Leads generation. More and more companies and entrepreneurs (big and small) are aggressively making their social presence in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ etc...
Even though Google+ is not very new in the market but it is still the latest heavy weight social media comes into play. Thus, it is common that we will compare it with the existing giants like Facebook or Twitter. I managed to source for an infographic depicting the key comparison between Google+ and Facebook. So, if you are still clueless about the important differences between these two social medis, check it out below:
Social Media, especially Facebook has become a critical element towards the success of Internet Marketing. With the more than 500 millions members base and it's free to create Fan Page feature. It is a powerful tool to promote your sites/blogs//products/services.
Do you have a facebook fanpage or planning to create one? Admire to own a fanciful Fan Page that allow you to create an effective squeeze page or landing page right inside your facebook?
If you answer "Yes" to the above, you must check out the Fan Page Pro product which allow you to create all the above without any technical skills or coding. The benefits:
Simple and effective template to fit any industry.
Easy to use editor for all the content editing.
Instant Live updating - hands free content updates.
Information is KING, especially in the Internet Marketing world. The entire web/Internet is our market. Thus, any information/resources gained pertaining to the web/Internet will be an added advantage to us.
If you are a beginner in Internet Marketing, I believed your daily routine will involve searching the web for resources related to your venture. Ever wonder which are the most popular/most visited sites in the world? In your own country or in any specific country of your choice? If you were given a specific site (for example "warriorforum"), do you know how popular is this site?
Fret not, the FREE resource is here! You can find all the above answers on the spot through an authority site called Alexa. It's ranking system is basing on the past 3 months' traffics of the entire web.
If you were to visit Alexa now, you will notice that the current top 5 global sites are:
1. Google.com
2. Facebook.com
3. Youtube.com
4. Yahoo.com
5. Blogger.com (no wonder blogging is so popular!)
As for the specific site like warriorforum.com (which is the bible forum for Internet marketers), it has a global ranking of 192 and US ranking of 67 (see below), which is not too bad at all.
On top of such free real time information, you can register and incorporate the traffic widget into your site/blog to showcase your site/blog's Alexa ranking.
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