Google releases its Google Offers, after Groupon turned down their $6 billion buyout. The product is a deal platform for local businesses via which they can advertise offers and deals on their products and services, attracting more customers every day. Deals and discounts (with specific validity) will be created by the product and sent out to local customers on a daily basis.
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Are you looking to build more visibility about your business online through outreach and connecting to your customers? Then take a look at the Dell Trade Secrets programme that was launched earlier this year.The programme was established to get their small business customers to talk with them as a company and with each other and at the same time build awareness for a new product in the Dell range – the Dell Vostro 130.

The campaign was all about how to create a great first impression – just as Dell believe that the Dell Vostro V 130 does as a lap top for the business traveller. the Trade Secrets campaign encouraged Dell customers to share their own ‘secrets’ to making a good first impression. This was done through Twitter where people were encourages to share tips using the #tradesecrets hashtag or directly on the Dell Facebook Page on a Trade Secrets app.

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Today Bing launched the Bing Business Portal, replacing the Bing Local Listing Center. And WOW, what a difference!

The new Bing Business Portal comes with a ton of new capabilities that weren’t present in the previous one.

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In testing out the newer Facebook question feature, I thought it would be interesting to step away from corporate marketing and ask our network about personal brand marketing and the tools that have been the most effective.  With hundreds of millions of people active on social networks world wide, there have been more than a few “brandividuals” spawned through the social web.

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