With the explosion of social networking sites such as Facebook and the millions of people actively participating, small businesses and marketing firms are catching wind that they can provoke activity and viral marketing through giving away highly desirable gadgets such as I-pads, for simply… spreading the word through contests.  According to Contest Burner owner Bill McIntosh, contests have been around since the Roman Olympic years and even fortune 500 companies such as Pepsi or McDonalds use contests to provoke engagement in their products.  Bill explains how contests have exploded recently through social networking and it’s only going to get bigger.

Bill McIntosh went on to express, “Everyone remembers looking under the bottle cap of their soda to see what they won… or the Monopoly game at McDonalds.  It’s been around for generations… but now it’s a viable way to spread a marketing message virally through social marketing contests that give away valuable prizes everyone wants!”

“In today’s day and age, where advertising messages hit us from every angle conceivable, running social contests is quite the change of pace to the knock-them-over-the-head sales attempts we’ve grown used to” says Mr. McIntosh.

Furthermore, because of the user-friendly applications available online, it makes it more accessible than ever to manage and run a contest.  Applications such as Contest Burner or others, allow any small business or marketing firm the ability to set up and run contests quickly.

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Cybercriminals are on the merge of discovering new ways to spam the internet. This time it turns out that Twitter is in the range. Twitter.com is fully aware  and have been continually developing new ways of protecting it’s twitterers of all these cybercriminal attacks. I am sure many of you have noticed the recent change about Twitter’s Link Service .

Some underground forums are currently promoting a tool kit aka “Twitter Kit” which  has some interesting functions, it allows to send messages to thousands of followers using proxy settings. Not only that it enhances Search Engine Optimization. The tool also enables the user to search through other users’ followers and to send Follow invites to them as well as to break account limits set by Twitter. [Source : http://blog.trendmicro.com ] you can read more at this blog

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Once you have created your account (it is FREE), every new member that joins Followe.rs will automatically follow you today and this will be an endless follow procedure as it will continue FOREVER and this without any EXTRA effort from your part.

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