Microsoft will launch its newest search engine offering, Bing, soon. Rather than just another search engine that dishes out results based on popularity as was its previous two attempts with Live Search and MSN Search, Bing is being reformatted as a ‘decision engine’.
It aims to clean up the smorgasbord of results thrown at users when searching for a solution on the Web to allow users to make decisions to their not-so-simple questions like ‘Where to go for dinner?’
Since drawing excitement as ‘Kumo’ with some of its features revealed on the Microsoft blog in March, Microsoft has since renamed their new search engine Bing. “The name is short, it’s easy to say, it works globally,” quipped Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Bing might find it an insurmountable battle with search engine giant Google though. According to research group comScore Inc, based on the US search queries in April, 65% of searches were ran on Google, with Yahoo coming up a distant second with 20.4% and Microsoft managing a disappointing 8.2%.
Acknowledging the tough competition, Microsoft hasn’t set its sights on beating the giant. Instead, Mike Nichols, a general manager in the search department said: “We want to capture a unique position in consumers’ minds. They need to know why is it that they should use this product.”
While chances are Microsoft will not get a bite of the Google pie share, Bing might just succeed at attracting some of Yahoo’s users. It aims to do so with a set of features that makes it stand out against its competitors.
Unlike Google, related search results are placed in a left column instead of at the bottom of the page, together with a bar of links running down the left side of the search results page that aim to help organise results. It also keeps track of recent searches and enables users to email links from that search history or share them on Facebook.
Instead of being directed to another site based on the search results, users looking to shop or check airfares online will find the information they need on the Bing result page itself. A search on airfare will bring up results from Farecast which features the Price Predictor that charts the best time to buy an air ticket so as to get you the biggest savings. Bing makes shopping a convenient experience by bringing together price comparisons, images and reviews, not unlike Amazon.com. What’s more, it claims to get consumers cash backs from hundreds of online retailers.
Bing also reassures the user looking for medical information online by providing results from the top credible medical sources in the world which you can trust. It also refines the results on local searches and allows you to filter your results so you get what you want instead of having to sift through everything a search engine would usually throw at you.
Although the search engine market is already saturated with big players like Google and Yahoo and country-specific search engines favourable with the locals, it remains to be seen if Microsoft Bing’s fresh offerings have the ability to pave its way up the charts to bring it face to face with Google.
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The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”
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The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”
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Microsoft will launch its newest search engine offering, Bing, soon. Rather than just another search engine that dishes out results based on popularity as was its previous two attempts with Live Search and MSN Search, Bing is being reformatted as a ‘decision engine’.
It aims to clean up the smorgasbord of results thrown at users when searching for a solution on the Web to allow users to make decisions to their not-so-simple questions like ‘Where to go for dinner?’
Since drawing excitement as ‘Kumo’ with some of its features revealed on the Microsoft blog in March, Microsoft has since renamed their new search engine Bing. “The name is short, it’s easy to say, it works globally,” quipped Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Bing might find it an insurmountable battle with search engine giant Google though. According to research group comScore Inc, based on the US search queries in April, 65% of searches were ran on Google, with Yahoo coming up a distant second with 20.4% and Microsoft managing a disappointing 8.2%.
Acknowledging the tough competition, Microsoft hasn’t set its sights on beating the giant. Instead, Mike Nichols, a general manager in the search department said: “We want to capture a unique position in consumers’ minds. They need to know why is it that they should use this product.”
While chances are Microsoft will not get a bite of the Google pie share, Bing might just succeed at attracting some of Yahoo’s users. It aims to do so with a set of features that makes it stand out against its competitors.
Unlike Google, related search results are placed in a left column instead of at the bottom of the page, together with a bar of links running down the left side of the search results page that aim to help organise results. It also keeps track of recent searches and enables users to email links from that search history or share them on Facebook.
Instead of being directed to another site based on the search results, users looking to shop or check airfares online will find the information they need on the Bing result page itself. A search on airfare will bring up results from Farecast which features the Price Predictor that charts the best time to buy an air ticket so as to get you the biggest savings. Bing makes shopping a convenient experience by bringing together price comparisons, images and reviews, not unlike Amazon.com. What’s more, it claims to get consumers cash backs from hundreds of online retailers.
Bing also reassures the user looking for medical information online by providing results from the top credible medical sources in the world which you can trust. It also refines the results on local searches and allows you to filter your results so you get what you want instead of having to sift through everything a search engine would usually throw at you.
Although the search engine market is already saturated with big players like Google and Yahoo and country-specific search engines favourable with the locals, it remains to be seen if Microsoft Bing’s fresh offerings have the ability to pave its way up the charts to bring it face to face with Google.
Filed under Traffic · Tagged with Bing, Ceo Steve Ballmer, Comscore, Decision Engine, Dishes, Facebook, Google, Google Search, Google Yahoo, Kumo, Left Column, Microsoft Ceo, Microsoft's, Mike Nichols, Msn Search, Research Group, Search Department, Search Google, Search History, Simple Questions, Smorgasbord, Steve Ballmer, versus
The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”
Filed under Social Media · Tagged with Amp, Benefit, Bill Gates, Brothers And Sisters, Business Owners, Computer One, Direct, Facebook, Home, Home Party Business, Information, Internet Computers, Marketing, Marketing Information, Media, Media Platforms, Media Tools, Party, Personal Computer, Plan, Plan Marketing, Sales, Sales Consultant, Saleswoman, Social, Social Networks, Texting, Twitter, Vocabulary, Walkers
The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”
Filed under Social Media · Tagged with Amp, Benefit, Bill Gates, Brothers And Sisters, Business Owners, Computer One, Direct, Facebook, Home, Home Party Business, Information, Internet Computers, Marketing, Marketing Information, Media, Media Platforms, Media Tools, Party, Personal Computer, Plan, Plan Marketing, Sales, Sales Consultant, Saleswoman, Social, Social Networks, Texting, Twitter, Vocabulary, Walkers
Microsoft will launch its newest search engine offering, Bing, soon. Rather than just another search engine that dishes out results based on popularity as was its previous two attempts with Live Search and MSN Search, Bing is being reformatted as a ‘decision engine’.
It aims to clean up the smorgasbord of results thrown at users when searching for a solution on the Web to allow users to make decisions to their not-so-simple questions like ‘Where to go for dinner?’
Since drawing excitement as ‘Kumo’ with some of its features revealed on the Microsoft blog in March, Microsoft has since renamed their new search engine Bing. “The name is short, it’s easy to say, it works globally,” quipped Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Bing might find it an insurmountable battle with search engine giant Google though. According to research group comScore Inc, based on the US search queries in April, 65% of searches were ran on Google, with Yahoo coming up a distant second with 20.4% and Microsoft managing a disappointing 8.2%.
Acknowledging the tough competition, Microsoft hasn’t set its sights on beating the giant. Instead, Mike Nichols, a general manager in the search department said: “We want to capture a unique position in consumers’ minds. They need to know why is it that they should use this product.”
While chances are Microsoft will not get a bite of the Google pie share, Bing might just succeed at attracting some of Yahoo’s users. It aims to do so with a set of features that makes it stand out against its competitors.
Unlike Google, related search results are placed in a left column instead of at the bottom of the page, together with a bar of links running down the left side of the search results page that aim to help organise results. It also keeps track of recent searches and enables users to email links from that search history or share them on Facebook.
Instead of being directed to another site based on the search results, users looking to shop or check airfares online will find the information they need on the Bing result page itself. A search on airfare will bring up results from Farecast which features the Price Predictor that charts the best time to buy an air ticket so as to get you the biggest savings. Bing makes shopping a convenient experience by bringing together price comparisons, images and reviews, not unlike Amazon.com. What’s more, it claims to get consumers cash backs from hundreds of online retailers.
Bing also reassures the user looking for medical information online by providing results from the top credible medical sources in the world which you can trust. It also refines the results on local searches and allows you to filter your results so you get what you want instead of having to sift through everything a search engine would usually throw at you.
Although the search engine market is already saturated with big players like Google and Yahoo and country-specific search engines favourable with the locals, it remains to be seen if Microsoft Bing’s fresh offerings have the ability to pave its way up the charts to bring it face to face with Google.
Filed under Traffic · Tagged with Bing, Ceo Steve Ballmer, Comscore, Decision Engine, Dishes, Facebook, Google, Google Search, Google Yahoo, Kumo, Left Column, Microsoft Ceo, Microsoft's, Mike Nichols, Msn Search, Research Group, Search Department, Search Google, Search History, Simple Questions, Smorgasbord, Steve Ballmer, versus
The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”
Filed under Social Media · Tagged with Amp, Benefit, Bill Gates, Brothers And Sisters, Business Owners, Computer One, Direct, Facebook, Home, Home Party Business, Information, Internet Computers, Marketing, Marketing Information, Media, Media Platforms, Media Tools, Party, Personal Computer, Plan, Plan Marketing, Sales, Sales Consultant, Saleswoman, Social, Social Networks, Texting, Twitter, Vocabulary, Walkers
Microsoft will launch its newest search engine offering, Bing, soon. Rather than just another search engine that dishes out results based on popularity as was its previous two attempts with Live Search and MSN Search, Bing is being reformatted as a ‘decision engine’.
It aims to clean up the smorgasbord of results thrown at users when searching for a solution on the Web to allow users to make decisions to their not-so-simple questions like ‘Where to go for dinner?’
Since drawing excitement as ‘Kumo’ with some of its features revealed on the Microsoft blog in March, Microsoft has since renamed their new search engine Bing. “The name is short, it’s easy to say, it works globally,” quipped Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.
Bing might find it an insurmountable battle with search engine giant Google though. According to research group comScore Inc, based on the US search queries in April, 65% of searches were ran on Google, with Yahoo coming up a distant second with 20.4% and Microsoft managing a disappointing 8.2%.
Acknowledging the tough competition, Microsoft hasn’t set its sights on beating the giant. Instead, Mike Nichols, a general manager in the search department said: “We want to capture a unique position in consumers’ minds. They need to know why is it that they should use this product.”
While chances are Microsoft will not get a bite of the Google pie share, Bing might just succeed at attracting some of Yahoo’s users. It aims to do so with a set of features that makes it stand out against its competitors.
Unlike Google, related search results are placed in a left column instead of at the bottom of the page, together with a bar of links running down the left side of the search results page that aim to help organise results. It also keeps track of recent searches and enables users to email links from that search history or share them on Facebook.
Instead of being directed to another site based on the search results, users looking to shop or check airfares online will find the information they need on the Bing result page itself. A search on airfare will bring up results from Farecast which features the Price Predictor that charts the best time to buy an air ticket so as to get you the biggest savings. Bing makes shopping a convenient experience by bringing together price comparisons, images and reviews, not unlike Amazon.com. What’s more, it claims to get consumers cash backs from hundreds of online retailers.
Bing also reassures the user looking for medical information online by providing results from the top credible medical sources in the world which you can trust. It also refines the results on local searches and allows you to filter your results so you get what you want instead of having to sift through everything a search engine would usually throw at you.
Although the search engine market is already saturated with big players like Google and Yahoo and country-specific search engines favourable with the locals, it remains to be seen if Microsoft Bing’s fresh offerings have the ability to pave its way up the charts to bring it face to face with Google.
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The astute and very pleasant Direct Sales Consultant, known by the handle The Traveling SalesWoman, asked the following question of me? You were the person who encouraged me to join Twitter, and I’m so grateful for that! Can you share some further thoughts about Twitter and why home party business owners should join in that conversation?Are you are brothers and sisters fan? If so you have not missed the obvious connection between Sarah Walkers’ Greenotopia company and its’ many references to social networks and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter!And if you don’t know by now, you are no-one if you are not on twitter. I was amused to find that my vocabulary has changed considerably over the past year!I am Youtubing, plurking, Facebooking, tweeting, blogging, linking, MySpacing, texting and a host of other things too! All these are some of the most popular social media sites and as you can see things can get pretty hairy, so I definitely recommend that you have a social media system.Direct Sales Home Party Marketing Tip: Any task you do more than once NEEDS a procedure, system or checklist!Before Bill Gates, no one had a personal computer! One man single handedly revolutionized the world with a dream…his dream was that every home would have a computer! His dream was to provide value to every single household in the world!Even after Bill Gates created such an incredible tool, that gave rise to the Internet, Easy Online access & E-Commerce; it STILL amazes me just how many people refuse, are afraid and/or have not taken advantage of the power of the computer and the Internet! Computers as far as I am concerned are the best social media tools (of course for the obvious reason without one you cannot access social media ?, yep)!I told the travelling saleswoman that social media and social networks are all about relational capital. And like any thing social media marketing is an art form. The question I often get asked by home party consultants and direct sales reps. Is why don’t they buy my product. The answer is simple, you have written a check, which came back with the red stamp mark, insufficient funds! (thanks Martin Luther King Jr. for that one).You see people buy because:i) they know you,ii) they trust you iii) they believe that you have the solution the problem which the face andiv) for statusPeople don’t buy a product, nor do they buy a feature and the benefits are as they are decided upon by the story they tell themselves. Your juice drink mwy help me loose weight. But the story I am telling myself is that I am going to look sexy, finally that size 0 pair of jeans that I have seen on display for a year will be mine. I am going to get hit on by men….you get the picture? So if your pitch is not in line with my story…How does all this fit into social media and social marketing? Simple, you are building relational capital, by depositing in the bank of getting to know you, getting to know all about you! And you are not only doing it with one person, no you are reaching out to many in one shot!There are people on these sites that follow you, there are those that interact with you and those that want to see what you are about. The cool thing about social outlets is that you are King and Queen of your own little internet real estate King/Queendom!Social media and social marketing is all about building that relational capital that gives you the all access pass to make your direct sales pitches to those who are ready, able and willing to hear what you have to say, and have the money to spend on what you have to sell. Do not under-estimate the power of relational capital! How else do you think Pres. Barack Obama did it? I will be holding a special in a week or so about “the Pres. Obama Social Media Effect : How You Too Can Go From Zero To Hero!For more on social media, and how to use it effectively, just google “social media blog!”

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