WHO USES SOCIAL MEDIA?How many businesses are using social media today so that they  have  customers  tomorrow?  According  to  the  State  of Social Media report from MarketingProfs, corporations who responded to the survey reported the following usage of the top
social media sites:

▶ Corporate profi  le on Facebook: 48.2%

▶ Corporate Twitter account: 42.8%

All billionaires

100 . Billionaires

Source http://www.bloomberg.com

microadvert.net- While Facebook needs no introduction, I do hope that these stats will convince you of the potential of using it as a tool of business growth. If you’re trying to figure out how to do so, here are some tips:

1. Content

I’m sure you’ve heard of the saying ‘content is king‘. That is only partially true and, in my honest opinion, content and community needs to co-exist.

microadvert.net- SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” listings on search engines. All major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing have such results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users. Payment isn’t involved, as it is with paid search ads.

microadvert.net- Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates has fond memories of his biggest rival, Apple founder Steve Jobs.

In an interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes, Gates became emotional when he spoke about his last conversation with Jobs before he passed away in October 2011.

microadvert.net- One of the more common mistakes people make when thinking
about social media is to think that social media is about only
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace. In reality,
social media is about much more.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald penned “The Great Gatsby,” he sought to depict the opulence and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. Little did he know that tucked in the folds of his Great American Novel would be lessons for PR pros that would resonate 90 years after its completion.

With the latest film rendition opening nationwide this weekend, and Leonardo DiCaprio set to melt hearts as the dashing Jay Gatsby, PR Daily decided to take a lighthearted look at what PR pros could learn from the novel and from the title character: