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Social Media Webinar at Embitel

September 26th, 2009

After an overwhelming response of our webinars on Retail e-Commerce Series, Embitel has conducted its 4th Webinar on:  “How to Succeed in Business using Social Media?”

 

Webinar Agenda:

Ø  What the heck is Social Media?

Ø  Benefits of Social Media

Ø  How it drives business growth?

Ø  Latest trends in Social Media

Ø  Do’s & Don’ts

Ø  Case Study

Reasons to attend this Webinar:

  • Because 2 /3rd of the global internet population visit social networks.
  • Because visiting social networks is now the 4th most popular online activity- ahead of personal mail.
  • Because time spent on social networks is growing at 3 times the overall internet rate, accounting for approx 10% of all internet time.

     

Generate more Leads, Customers, Fans, Followers and Business, Know how from this Webinar with Mr. Daniel Reborn

 
Henceforth, social media is indispensible for your business in this increasingly consumer-driven economy and one cannot afford to stay out of it.
 
Speaker: Mr. Daniel Rebhorn
- Industry expert with more than 14 years of experience in retail e-Commerce and e-Marketing 

- Founder, dmc GmbH Germany and Chairman, Embitel India

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Social Media Marketing and its Advantages to your Business

September 17th, 2009

Social Media Marketing: Social media marketing is the procedure of promoting your site or business through social media channels. Social Media Marketing is an influential approach that will get you links, awareness and huge amounts of traffic.

There is no other low cost promotional method out there that will easily give you large numbers of visitors, some of whom may come back to your website again and again.
 
Advantages with Social Media Marketing
In Present Scenario Social Media Marketing is becoming a major tool for Search Engine Optimization.
Primary and Secondary Traffic: Though the primary traffic, which comes directly from the social media websites ,may not be so useful, the secondary traffic ,which is referral traffic from websites which link to and send you visitors after they come across your content through the social sites, are very targeted and useful for your websites.
High Quality Links: When a website receives a large number of natural, permanent links from trusted domains, it develops ability. Search engines trust it. It will help enormously in Search engine ranking as well. In a sense, you are obtaining these quality links through borrowed trust.
 
Social Media Marketing – How it will helpful to your business?
Natural:  Not only do you get natural links without any visible pattern, your website is exposed to large groups of people in an impulsive fashion. This differs from paid advertising which has overt commercial overtones.
Defensible: Once successfully mastered, social communities can be a great source of web traffic on top of any traffic you are already receiving from search engines. While you can’t easily increase your search engine traffic, social media traffic can be very easily controlled through strategic marketing.
Low-cost/High returns:  If the social media marketing is done by yourself, costs are limited to only time and possibly the expenses involved in hiring an expert. It would take you thousands of dollars to buy many links; social media has the ability to give you that for free.
Complement Other Efforts: Social media optimization and marketing is usually community specific. It doesn’t interfere with any other methods of getting traffic to your website. It can and will fit perfectly with an advertising campaign targeting other websites or search engines.

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Social Networking Usage in Australia

September 12th, 2009

In August, 2009 ComScore has released a study on social network usage in Australia. ComScore found that more than 70% of internet users visited social networking websites as compare to 2008 year only 29% of total internet users visited social networking websites. Facebook is most visited social networking websites followed by MySpace, Windows Live, Bebo and Twitter.

 
Nearly 9 million Australians visited a social networking site in June, 2009, making it one of the most popular content categories on the Web. Facebook led as the most visited social networking intention with more than 6 million visitors and growing 95 percent from the previous year. MySpace Sites ranked second with 3.5 million visitors, up 5 percent, followed by Windows Live Profile with nearly 2 million visitors. Twitter witnessed the most substantial growth, surging to 8, 00,000 visitors in June, 2009, up from just 13,000 visitors in 2008. Orkut also achieved significant growth reaching 2, 52,000 visitors, up 607 percent.

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Install Google Analytics on Your Website to Track the Traffic Results

September 4th, 2009

What are the Advantages with Google Analytics? 

Now that you have a website or a blog wouldn’t it be nice to know where visitors come from, what pages on your site are viewed most often and which ones aren’t?  Would you like to be able to measure results before making changes? 

Having that information and much more is as simple as installing a small snippet of script on your website or blog and best of all there is no charge for this service. Hard to believe but it is true. Our good friends at Google have, for sometime now, made this available to all website owners. They provide the code, you install it on your website or blog and within 24 to 48 hours data collected about the traffic on your site is available in various reports in your Google Analytic account. This information will provide you with a good starting point to understanding how your content is performing and where changes are needed.  

 

 

Installing Google Analytics to Your Blog 

  1. Type Google Analytics in your search bar.  Once there, if you have a Gmail account you may simply use it to sign up.  Otherwise in the center of the page use the ‘Sign up nowlink. Create your account.
  2. After creating your account Google sends you an email to verify your address. Go to your email, click on the link provided in the email you just received from Google and you will be taken to their webpage. On the right hand side of the page select Analytics.
  3. You will be asked for your website URL. They have ‘http:’ already selected so just type in www.yourdomainname.com (or .net or .info – whatever is correct for your address). Your Account Name should automatically become www.yourdomainname.com. Select the Country/Territory and the Time Zone and click Continue.
  4. On the next page you will be asked for your Name, Phone and Country then click Continue.
  5. Read through the Terms of Service and if you agree select Yes and then click on Create New Account.
  6. You now arrive at the page with the tracking code and are given a choice of installing the Legacy Tracking Code (urchin.js) or the New Tracking Code (ga.js). The choice is yours but I would opt for the New Tracking Code.
  7. Without closing the Google Tracking Code page, open a new browser window or tab and log in to your blog. Navigate to Presentation à Theme Editor. Once at your Theme Editor select ‘Footer’ from the list of Theme files on the right hand side. When selected the code for the ‘Footer’ now becomes visible in the editor. Scroll down through the code and look for the closing </body> tag.

     


     

  8. Copy the tracking code from the Google Analytic page and paste it right above the </body> tag, just as I have in the above illustration. Notice that the Analytic code starts with the tag <script type=”text/javascript”> and ends with the closing </script> tag.
  9. Look at the code closely to make sure you copied and pasted all of it. When done, select Update File, log out of your blog and close the window or tab. (Reminder: If you don’t click on Update File your code will not be saved.) The installation is finished but we need to complete the process and let Google know.
  10. Go back to the Google Analytics window and select Continue. You will be taken to the dashboard of your Google Analytics Account. Notice the Check Status link, click on the button and you will return to the Tracking code page where you will see the status. It should give your Profile Name, Website URL and indicate that it is ‘Waiting for Data and that Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now’. At the bottom of this page ‘clicks’ on Finish to complete your installation. Congratulations! You have successfully installed Google Analytics. You are now taken to the dashboard where you can learn more about the reports that will soon be generated for you. 

 

Installing Google Analytics a Static Website  

If you have a static website rather than a blog the process is very similar but the Analytic code needs to be placed on each page you want tracked.  

  1. Follow the instructions above for signing up for your Google Analytics Account. Then open your website files in your favorite text editor. Copy and paste the Tracking code on each page you want tracked. Insert the code just above the </body> tag.
  2. After you have finished inserting the code, upload the files to your server via your favorite FTP program and you are set.
  3. Complete the process of checking the status. Follow through the directions above and finish your installation.  

 

Resources: 

  1. Google Analytics by Mary E. Tyler and Jerri L. Ledford
  2. Web Analytics an Hour A Day by Avinash Kaushik 

 

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