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April 2009 - Website Magazine Consumer Corner

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US Weekly Breaks the Facebook Advertising Mold

In a first, celebrity gossip magazine US Weekly has accepted a sponsorship to their Facebook Fan Page . State Farm can now be seen as the official sponsor to US Weekly's presence on Facebook. It's a powerful message to the rest of the industry...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 4:14 PM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: facebook, social media, social marketing
Take Advantage of iGoogle's What's Popular Gadget

Google has recently introduced "What's Popular," a gadget for user iGoogle startup pages. The gadget will display popular items of interest in the form of links with titles and short descriptions from Google's index on users' iGoogle...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 12:40 PM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: google, igoogle
The Importance of Your Twitter Image

As Twitter continues to sweep the Internet, it only makes sense that users are adding more and more followers each day. And while services like TweetDeck can help manage all those incoming tweets, not everyone is using them. That presents a problem for...

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 10:28 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: twitter, consumers
RetailMeNot: Now Printable Coupons

RetailMeNot.com, a popular site that offers digital coupons to consumers announced it will now offer 90,000 printable coupons to be used for brick-and-mortar shopping. Users can search by business name, location, or browse categories. Coupon search results...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 9:19 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: e-commerce, retail
Fastest Rising and Falling Consumer Searches

Compete.com has released a study of the Web's fastest rising and falling searches , revealing Twitter as the term Web consumers searched most in March. It marked a 130% growth from February 2009. The top 10 fastest rising terms were: Twitter American...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2009 9:48 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: search, yahoo, google, ask, msn, aol
New Yelp Feedback Options for Businesses

Yelp, ever an advocate for the consumer, is now letting businesses post responses to user comments and reviews. So, if your business receives a negative review on Yelp, you can now respond for everyone to see, and that's a good thing. With more than...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2009 8:48 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: consumers, reputation management, yelp, business listings
Consumer Confidence Rising

RBC Financial Group reports that consumer confidence is on its way back up, after seven months of a downward spiral. The CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index jumped 30.1 points to reach 38.3 - the first improvement since September...

Published Mon, Apr 13 2009 8:39 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: consumers
New and Improved Digg Search

One of Digg.com's biggest shortcomings has always been the search feature. It returned results that were not always relevant or timely. So, by popular demand, Digg has completely revamped their search results. Enter a term and you will find more relevant...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2009 2:22 PM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: digg, social, social media
Targeting Bloggers on Twitter for Maximum Exposure

According to Compete.com, Twitter's traffic grew over 75 percent in March, up to more than 14 million unique visitors from 8 million in February. That's a plenty strong argument to use Twitter to promote your brand, products and services to consumers...

Published Tue, Apr 07 2009 4:15 PM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: blogging, twitter
Google Insight for Search Gadget

If you're an iGoogle user, there's a new gadget that could be of great value. Insights for Search displays the top rising searches in the last seven days. After adding the gadget you can edit the settings - by results type (rising or top searches...

Published Tue, Apr 07 2009 9:50 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: gadgets, google, search trends, igoogle
Young Consumers are Internet Coupon Clippers

A research study from Platform-A and IRI polled more than 36,000 panelists and found that online coupons hold great interest to Internet users - particularly the younger generations. The study revealed that nearly 4 out of every 10 shoppers would be "very...

Published Thu, Apr 02 2009 9:08 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: shopping, consumers, coupons, retail
BlackBerry Launches App World

It's official: BlackBerry has launched their own app platform for smartphones, App World . At the website you can download the system for free. There are a host of free apps to get started with, while paid apps start at $2.99, payable through PayPal...

Published Wed, Apr 01 2009 9:08 AM by Mike Phillips

Filed under: blackberry, applications, RIM

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