All Blog Posts Tagged 'social' (17)

Launched just two short years ago by founder and CEO, Sabira Arefin, LocalBlox now serves 77,000 communities and neighborhoods nationwide and is celebrating its two-year anniversary. Started as a local network to communicate with neighbors, the firm continues to adhere to its original mission to the individual. It has also grown to encompass an extensive array of affordable, high-tech business solutions.

“I always had dreams…

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Launching a new business is never easy, “With a startup, you’re eager to bring your product to the attention of potential buyers, but the way you do that is critical,” said Arefin, the Founder & CEO of LocalBlox. Here is the list of top five startup mistakes and how to avoid them.



Confusing customers – Too much information is not always desirable, but startup founders often attempt to list every detail of their product. Instead of convincing the…

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LocalBlox founder and CEO, Sabira Arefin, has announced the launch of the firm’s latest innovation, the LoveScore™ for 23 million businesses across the U.S. The LoveScore™ has been calculated through real time aggregation, updates and proprietary scoring based on user reviews and activities on the LocalBlox platform, along with a variety of sources such as social media activities, reviews and ratings from online directories and review sites, loyalty points,…

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Sabira Arefin, founder and CEO of LocalBlox, announced that the firm is offering a variety of mobile and social media tools to help keep neighborhoods safe. “LocalBlox is dedicated to building safe neighborhoods nationwide,” said Arefin. “We have numerous online social media and mobile tools that provide information to help keep neighbors safe and warn them of impending danger.”

One of the primary tools in the firm’s efforts to…

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Seattle, WA – Aug. 28, 2012 – Labor Day is a time to pause, reflect and honor the contributions and achievements of the American workers. LocalBlox is dedicated to assisting its users build strong neighborhoods, and the firm’s founder, Sabira Arefin, has reaffirmed her company’s commitment to its thousands of neighborhoods throughout the U.S.



“Labor Day is especially meaningful this year, with so many people out of work,” said…

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LocalBlox founder and CEO, Sabira Arefin, announced that the firm has added coverage to 17,000 new neighborhoods in major cities across the U.S. LocalBlox now serves in more than 77,000 neighborhood communities, offering a of high-tech social media & mobile tools for small businesses and an extensive array of services.

The firm is a founder-run startup and Arefin is cognizant of the challenges small businesses encounter.…

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Communities throughout the U.S. are struggling to maintain their identity and viability. LocalBlox CEO and founder, Sabira Arefin, announced that the firm has released new local social media & mobile tools to help local neighborhoods build strong communities online and offline.

“Strong neighborhoods are essential, especially is smaller communities,” Arefin. “LocalBlox offers a variety of social media &…

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Far too often, businesses hire expensive marketing firms to increase visibility and traffic, but their efforts fall far short of their claims. LocalBlox is dedicated to helping small local businesses succeed and the firm’s founder, Sabira Arefin, announced that the site now encompasses a comprehensive suite of tools to feature member businesses.

“We offer high-tech tools and free local…

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As internet marketers may of us struggle to get a handle on how to effectively market in a social media web 2.0 world. Social media is about building relationships. It is very difficult to sell someone when you haven’t built trust through a relationship.



We all get hit up by over aggressive marketers on social sites. You know, those who welcome you to a site and then start selling you something. We also get friends requests from people who have never contacted us before. With this in… Continue

Remember years ago when companies would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on getting information about their demographics? Well, if the demographics you're targeting happens to include the Gen-Y group (those born between 1980 and 1995) - you're in luck! Why? Because they've pretty much grown up with the Internet and have been participating in the growth of the Internet their entire lives. So, what they do, what they like, who they know, etc. is all recorded, on the… Continue

I know, I know, everyone is talking about social media, twitter this and facebook that! What's it all about? Why is everyone so interested in the minutiae of our lives? Well, I don't know the answer to that but I DO know that participating in social media is very much like participating in business and social networking groups. At first, you meet a lot of people, you shake hands, you engage in small talk and you get to know a little about each other. But after several meetings you become more… Continue

Mike Seidle from Pro Blog Service wrote..."Most of our clients at Professional Blog Service come in thinking SEO. Somewhere they hear that blogging works for getting better ranks on Google. Then a funny thing happens: After about one-three weeks the light goes on and they realize that social media can be much bigger than SEO for their business. After that the game changes to a full on social media blitz - and the SEO benefits - they don’t… Continue

Social media planning is very important - here's how you can plan your next exciting marketing campaign.



So many Internet Marketing firms are scrambling to offer social media marketing as part of their marketing campaigns. And who can blame them? It seems that social media programs like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter have taken over!



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A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade. The resulting structures are often very complex.



Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between… Continue