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Okay, name the last time you had a video chat using your social networking account on Facebook and Twitter. No, no, fancy add-ons don’t count. Just straight video chat without having to put in the extra effort. Anyone? Anyone?

Well, so long Facebook and Twitter, GooglePlus just took the lead.

When you line up your web agency for the first meeting or read their tender document, you’re hoping to be wowed a bit. You want to walk out of the presentation, having read their submission, and know full well that these folks can do the job for you. But are you being fair to them? Are you giving them enough information in your website brief about you and your business so they can bring their ‘A’ game to the table?

This post highlights the top 5 rocking social concepts (and digital) to hit the internet pre-Christmas 2012. You’ll be amazed how the theme of ‘giving’ has spread across the internet like viral wildfire to include weekly giving offers, yearly charity crusades and one off hyped up events.

Hopefully by now your business has joined one of the fastest-growing social networks, Pinterest. The holidays are swiftly approaching, and with them, one of the biggest consumer periods of the year! Follow these five simple steps to compete in this new arena for the holiday season!

Today I’m going to be looking at different ways of beating Google Panda through free and incentivised user generated contributions – UGC

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is an organic science. It grows and reacts to the atmosphere around it. That atmosphere can be the search engines themselves or it can be the changing habits of internet users. Today, we’re taking a look at five issues and how you can work on ways to improve your search engine ranking. It’s DIY SEO you could say. Here are my SEO tips.

Are the C-Suite executives unable to comprehend the obvious business benefits that online marketing brings?

Personal branding is very much like a way of marketing yourself to the public. The social media you converse with everyday is basically building your brand and letting the whole world know what you represent, what people can expect, and what core values you have.

One of the biggest challenges a marketer faces is to produce content that will ultimately help drive sales. Content can take many forms, from blog posts to videos, infographics to podcasts, and beyond. However the key is always to provide great content. Content that your prospects and customers alike will find valuable. Content that will encourage prospects to buy, and customers to buy again.

Every day I see tweets from Jeff Bullas linking to his Social Media and Online Marketing blog posts – and they are all an excellent read. He knows his stuff and conveys it to his audience in an engaging way. Being listed in the Forbes Top 50 Social Media Influencers is just one of his many achievements. So you can imagine my delight when Jeff agreed to me interviewing him. He tells me about the young Jeff Bullas, his background and how he got involved in Social Media, even giving us some tips too.