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Listening is very important with any social media strategy. Some people have a hard time grasping this concept because until a social media coach gives them some examples or shows them cases, it’s hard to think of this idea has been highly important. Some people that do see the value of listening still have trouble listening, because they don’t know how to have quality listening skills. Like all skills, practice makes perfect! Some people have even registered or signed up [...]

If you use Google+, you may see your Klout score go up! Klout has built a new scoring model to calculate activity on Google+’s brand new social network-that certainly didn’t take long! Klout measures the online influence of users and has now allowed Google+ to be added to the Klout dashboard of users as of September 22 2011. Klout has now integrated its system of measurement with Google+’s scoring models in order to give you an integrated system that gives [...]

Your timeline profile on Facebook will now show a little clock symbol for publishing your status updates. If you click on the clock, you can type in the year, and then the day and month fields. Your post will be placed in its correct spot in your timeline. The past posts in your timeline don’t have the clock icon yet, but it should be coming soon. This should further help you manage your own story online, as you can add [...]

Hey all, We here at Posse are hard at work creating a cutting edge podcast, the likes of which will get you on track to expand socially and grow exponentially! Keeping with our Western motif, we are calling it the Social Media Roundup. It will be a weekly show, roughly ten minutes in length, and will cover the latest social media tips, news, and interviews. It will be hosted by our own Taylor Marek, […]

When it comes to social media and customers, the prognosis is complicated; it’s good news and bad news. The good news is that compliments, reviews, and recommendations happen lighting fast-just a click of a button. The bad news is that complaints travel at exactly the same speed to the entire world. What is a company to do? […]

Just looking at Google’s results page gives us a clue that the search results aren’t what they use to be. These pages are no longer just comprised of organic and traditional site matches, because Google lists images, videos, social cues; as well as maps locally. This affects more than what we see and can identify with. […]

Google+ pages will truly make an impact for any businesses which combines social media with search techniques. For starters, Google+ now lets you share or make your information private. Although Facebook is working on this process, Google made it to the plate a little bit faster! But this is just the beginning: the meat of the idea for business is the +1 feature which will be discussed in this blog. Keep in mind that we’re still fiddling with this and [...]

Bloggers can sign up now on a new blogging site called “Tidal”. It’s another new concept on the information highway. This is a cheaper alternative to getting content for your sites by paying a fee using Tidal as their alternate for content that is written by bloggers. As of this date, about 5400 have signed up on Tidal and though bloggers aren’t paid for this, the real benefit is exposure, such as backlinks and traffic which they get by being [...]

Google’s announcement earlier this month directly affected how we can add more benefits to anyone’s site, including a business site. The new feature is called the Google+ Direct Connect. This is such an effective tool because it makes pages stand out visually in any search engine, thus resulting in effective pages when custom operators are used. […]

Is Direct Connect another clever bribe so far as Google is concerned? Google’s clever plans to leverage and win lots of support for Google+ has so far netted a lot of notice and many curious business owners, so thus far, Google’s work to get more people interested and using Google+ has worked. But to be honest, why would a business such as yours, want people to go that extra mile or search? Why on earth would users want to effectively [...]