If you’re like me, you’re addicted to Facebook. So many of us are. In fact, according to facebook.com there are currently more than 750 million active users on the popular networking site. That means that millions of us worldwide are busy tagging, friending and uploading each and every day. Facebook is like your morning coffee—it’s impossible to start the day without it. Maybe your productivity is slightly down but it’s totally worth it to check our favorite wall posts!
So how addicted are you? Here are some signs that you may be addicted to Facebook:
1. You think about Facebook even when you’re offline. Have you ever been at a party and had the urge to bust out your smart phone to update your status? There are many individuals (including me) who have trouble even falling to sleep at night because we’re thinking about playing Farmville or what our friends are up to. Besides, who knows what photos will be tagged of you by morning.
Larger companies with massive revenues can easily make the decision to spend thousands of dollars on customer relationship management (CRM) applications. For many of these bigger businesses, they may legitimately require the power and capabilities these expensive programs provide. For the small to medium sized business, however, such extravagance may not be an option. If this is the case, what then can they choose to provide affordable CRM solutions?
The power of the Internet and its constant evolution has brought a wide variety of affordable service solutions to many smaller, less wealthy companies. Commonly referred to as cloud computing solutions, the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS), has created opportunities for the smaller players in an industry to get the power and benefit of those more expensive applications. While some control may be lost by not having ownership of the service, the cost benefits and maintenance challenges associated with ownership are surpass the losses.
This list will point one in the direction of five of the more popular, effective, and free social CRM applications available right now. Links are provided and will open a new browser window providing the reader with the ability to keep track of the following list while investigating the various CRM solution options.
Google, up until recently, has allowed you to create a profile for your Google account that could include a pretty nice amount of dofollow links. So if you are lucky enough to have created your Google profile several months ago, you may stand a chance at adding your website link with good anchor text for a dofollow backlink, as I have with my personal Google profile.
The next step after setting up the blog and a few posts was to start spreading it across the social bookmarking sites and networks.
Social Bookmarking
Many SEO tools, such as SEO for Firefox, SEO Quake, Website Grader and more value whether you have links incoming from networks such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. So I bookmarked the main homepage on Delicious and StumbleUpon, and then the articles on all three.
