The Importance of Social Media Buttons on Your Site

| April 6, 2010 | 1 Comments

Social media is obviously a very important part of growing your business in the new millennium. Social media allows you to connect with other like minded folks who can help your business grow. In order to grow your social media lists, you need to make sure people can find you with ease, so the goal [...]

Should I Trust Yelp?

| April 2, 2010 | 1 Comments

If you haven’t yet heard the news, popular review website, Yelp, has recently been hit with a class action lawsuit. Two law firms, in San Diego and Miami, respectively, have filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court. They claim that Yelp is running an “extortion scheme”. The plaintiff claims that she complained [...]

How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog Articles

| March 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

So you have a WordPress blog, now what? Without a strategy for posting content you will not get as much value out of your blog. At Turbo, we like to take a long-tail keyword approach for ranking our blog articles. That is, we want to optimize blog articles to rank for queries in search engines [...]

Arguing Business Week and Their Call Out of Social Media Myths

| March 23, 2010 | 1 Comments

Recently someone forwarded me an article from BusinessWeek, outlining “Social Media Myths,” and asked me if this was true and if they should be concerned. I told her that there is nothing to be worried about, and that the article was not researched well and that his arguments were superficial at best. Social Media Marketing [...]

Grow Your Business Through LinkedIn Groups

| February 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

Facebook? Check! Twitter? Check! LinkedIn?…. LinkedIn? As we have discussed before, Social Networking is an extremely important and integral part of Social Media Marketing. However, in order to get the most out of it, you want to be sure you are using every part of these Social Networking sites to their fullest. If you have [...]

The Amazing Tom Sullivan Joins the Turbo Team

| January 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Turbo Social Media is pleased to announce that our team is expanding! As of this week, Tom Sullivan has accepted his new position as Senior Account Executive and will be heading up our Sales team efforts.  Tom comes with a long and successful background in Internet Marketing strategy, and has helped hundreds of companies build [...]

Pepsi Ditches Super Bowl for Social Media

| December 28, 2009 | 0 Comments

If I have not made myself clear int he past, allow me to do it now: Social Media Marketing is powerful, and is the future of advertising. If you ares till skeptical about all of this, then maybe you have not heard the big Super Bowl news. The Super Bowl is known as the #1 [...]

Building a Personal Site to Find a Job

| December 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

Over the last few years, the economy has been on a steady decline. As of right now, it is slowly starting to work its way back up. Many people have been out of work for quite awhile and are ready to re-join the workforce. However, getting hired is not the easiest thing to do right [...]

Twitter and Facebook Updates Now Indexed By Google

| December 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

Google is at it again. No Google has not bought any new companies, but they have found a way to stay in the loop on what is going on Facebook and Twitter. Google now has a section in their search results that feeds in real time status updates from Facebook and Twitter (and a few [...]

Facebook Vs. Twitter: Battle of the Social Network Stars

| December 8, 2009 | 1 Comments

If you have been paying attention to our blog posts, there are two items we talk about regularly: Twitter and Facebook. And this is not by accident. The reason we talk about these two so often is because they are quite possibly the most powerful tools out there for social networking. So here and now [...]