We're a team of people with a vision to create the place where small and medium size businesses/organisations find all they need to feel comfortable and confident in their social media marketing activities.

We believe that small and medium businesses across the globe who have fewer resources and significantly lower budgets need both user friendly and affordable technology that allows them to actually get something great in market, as well as access to real people who provide the offline products and services they need.

Although we'll continually add products and services - Tiger Pistol built, as well as via our Marketplace - today's offering is the foundation of the next generation in social media marketing.

Launching this week, Tiger Pistol provides SMEs with the ability to create Facebook apps and tabs, and understand the value of their fans.
Target market

Whilst anyone can use the Tiger Pistol platform, its creators see SMEs as the key audience. “Where we see the opportunity for us is to capture a disproportionate share of the smaller guys. There's a lot more of them and they need a lot more help. They need things to be a lot easier, they're a lot more isolated and they've got less experience. We think there's a big opportunity for those guys because those guys aren't currently being served,” says Tiger Pistol Co-founder and CEO, Stephen Hibberd. “We have a lot of larger businesses that have already signed up to use our app, and a lot of agencies we're already working with and they will also use our platform,” he adds.

People age 55 and older also showed heavy engagement with online video, averaging 12 hours of consumption and 155 videos per viewer in April.

Fukyama on the failures of the Arab Spring.

Restaurateurs should try to recognise and resolve problems with diners immediately or risk their patron's bad experiences spreading through social media even before they've left the restaurant.

That's the message from Restaurant and Catering Australia following new research that reveals almost a quarter of bad dining experiences are communicated on social media by the diner within a minute or two of leaving the restaurant, if not while they are still seated at the table.

A national survey of Australian diners conducted by Galaxy Research on behalf of American Express, has found one-third of Australians use social media to rate their dining experience, with a quarter of Generation Y diners favoring Facebook to share their views.

Guidelines for writing good tweets.

However, for industries that are subject to strict regulatory rules, navigating social media is not as simple as creating accounts on Twitter and Facebook. It takes a greater investment of time and energy to stay within the letter of the law, especially when the law may not been evolving as quickly as social media. The pharmaceutical sector is one example of an industry that must tread the social media world with great caution. Businesses have to adhere to rules about when they can directly mention their products and how they interact with possible patients. Here are some of the barriers that heavy regulation has created for the drug industry, along with some examples of how savvy businesses have overcome these obstacles.

Unternehmensinterne Social-Media-Plattformen bringen Teamarbeit und Wissens-Management auf ein neues Niveau. Die allgegenwärtige E-Mail-Kommunikation wird teilweise abgelöst. Vier Beispiele zeigen die Entwicklung.

Social networking has become the preferred channel of communication, and while companies initially resisted on-the-job use of social media, many now embrace it as good for business. They understand that enterprise social media tools can spark collaboration among co-workers, strengthen employee productivity and improve communications. Public social networking sites may help an organization attract customers and employees, improve customer service and manage its brand image.

"Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other networks provide the opportunity for Brands, Businesses, Restaurants, Bands and Celebrities to create an online presence with unrivalled potential for reaching new customers, building loyalty, growing sales and expanding your connections.

Akash Malik is an entrepreneur with a passion for helping businesses drive revenue through cost effective Internet and Social Media Marketing strategies. With an eMBA from UTS, Sydney, and B.Comp Eng Akash has extensive experience in digital marketing, web enablement and project management for e-businesses.

In this workshop, he will show you how to get started and harness the powerful marketing potential of Social Media for any business or brand – big or small. He will demonstrate how to use Social Media to engage with potential customers and build a loyal community around your brand. He will explore several mediums and discuss how to utilize them as a powerful GROWTH strategy for your BUSINESS."

Cal/Stanford professor Steve Blank predicts venture capital in Silicon Valley will stop funding life sciences and hardware in favor of whatever social media crap that can be flipped in a couple of years.

via https://twitter.com/#!/MJ_Coren/status/203515535982477312 and https://twitter.com/#!/MJ_Coren/status/203507274109558784 "Once you start looking at news media through the lens of fungibility and with sort-of-media in mind, it’s actually quite easy to see where opportunities remain.

Amp up storytelling and personality, because those things are irreplaceable. This American Life, for instance, or The Awl.
Acknowledge that you provide less value than you used to, downsize and capitalize on scale. What national newspapers are doing, albeit unwittingly.
Join the revolution. Adrian Holovaty comes from journalism, but EveryBlock isn’t journalism.
People read because they’re bored. Un-bore them, like Gawker does.
Write to people’s passion, and they will gobble up just about anything. MacRumors and many other niche sites do this.
Do stuff that does still matter. People are happy to support ProPublica and the Texas Tribune.
Notice that I didn’t mention digital-first or social data crowdjournalism or anything like that? Wonder why? Because the entire point is that journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping up your game is always a good idea, but it won’t save you."

Vergleich mehrerer günstiger kostenpflichtiger Tools: Although we consult primarily for large and medium-sized businesses here at Convince