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Making Money

01Nov09

As we all know, social networking is booming, and as a result, online marketing has thrived like never before. The “dot-com curse”, which states that online services often encounter difficulties making money, has been successfully evaded by several online portals, including the Big Three of Social Networking.


Coming up with an idea for a new social network site isn’t easy. Just take a look at Wikipedia’s list of social networking sites currently available, and be amazed at the sheer amount in variety of what the online world already has to offer.


We’ve all noticed the new feature on Facebook where a simple @ in front of a name in your status can connect you with a friend. Tom is having dinner with @Sarah. Helen thinks @Nathan needs a new haircut. Hold it. Where have I seen this before? That’s right. It’s an important Twitter tool for [...]


In an era, where bloggers become celebrities and online profiling thrives like never before, it has become painfully obvious that one cannot function in contemporary society without maintaining a continuous online presence. As Alina Tugend has put it quite aptly, “not being online today is akin to not existing”.


Where, I wondered last night,  do you begin when you want to start up your own internet company or social network site?  I started surfing and only five minutes later I discovered that apparently it only takes seven training videos from a guy from Holland named Bas, who calls himself an internet marketing expert. Problem [...]


Nowadays we are all members of different social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Maybe you even have a secret profile. We can design our own profile without anybody knowing that you aren’t a Brad Pitt lookalike investment banker on Wall Street or a 21-year-old blond supermodel slash actress. You can be the person [...]



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