44 Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media for Your Personal and Business Brand

Why would you want to waste your time blogging and building a following on social media networks? Why would you bother? It all seems like a lot of hard work really. For hundreds of years expressing yourself and displaying your passion and talents was confined to writing, drawing or painting on a piece of paper [...]

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3 Reasons Why YouTube Videos go Viral

YouTube is seen by many aspiring musicians, potential movie stars and wannabes as the online portal to fame and riches. This is not without precedent, as the biggest music brand in the world, Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube. Last year he set a YouTube record as the first person to reach 2 billion video views (after [...]

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Blogging Statistics, Facts and Figures in 2012 – Infographic

Blogging started as an online journal in the 1990′s where people shared their interests, hobbies and thoughts online. Online self expression was the main aim of the blogging game. In 2012 it has evolved into major publishing businesses such as Huffington Post that was sold recently for over $300 million. It is also used by [...]

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10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube

In my last post I mentioned that the social media ‘verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them. This Time cover from a couple of years ago (with the shiny mirrored screen) was prescient, but not quite enough… I’d cross that ‘You’ out and say ‘Us’. Hasn’t it felt that [...]

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