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What’s New This Week?
Google+ Increases Traffic by 55%: Experian Hitwise shares statistics for Google+ that show a significant increase in December 2011 compared to November 2011.
Social Media Examiner’s February Small Biz Success Summit
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Groupon Launches New Merchant Dashboard: Groupon’s new Merchant Tools provide improved features. Merchants can also access a new customer feedback feature.
Here are a few social media tools worth noting:
Weever app for WordPress: a free new HTML5 tool to build a mobile app for your WordPress site.
Tokkster: a free social browsing app that enables people who are on the same webpage to see and chat with each other.
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Summly: a simple way to browse the web.
Put Google Analytics to Work for Your Business (Online Training)
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CLICK TO LEARN MORE: ANALYTICS TRAININGHere’s an interesting infographic worth noting:
Special announcement:
Small Biz Dream Contest Winners: Congratulations to P.J. Jonas of Goat Milk Stuff and Erica Conroy of Coupsmart, the grand-prize and second-prize winners in the Small Biz Dream Contest. All 10 winners won a free pass to Small Biz Success Summit. P.J. also won 3 hours of consulting from John Jantsch. The top winners also won a library of marketing books and John Jantsch’s Complete Small Business Marketing System. Go see the winning entries.
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Small Business Success Summit 2011! (online conference)
Join 25 experts, including including John Jantsch (author, Duct Tape Marketing), Anita Campbell (founder, Small Business Trends), Michael Stelzner (founder, Social Media Examiner and author, Launch), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Jesse Stay (author, Google+ for Dummies), Hollis Thomases (author, Twitter Marketing), David Siteman Garland (founder, “The Rise to the Top” and author, Faster, Smarter, Cheaper), Joe Pulizzi (founder, Content Marketing Institute and co-author, Get Content, Get Customers), Brian Clark (founder, Copyblogger Media), Lee Odden (founder, TopRank Online Marketing), Ramon Ray (founder, Small Biz Technology and author, Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses) and Lewis Howes (co-author, LinkedWorking)—just to mention a few (scroll down to see full list)! Go here to learn more.
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
