Some airlines are blogging and doing it well enough to use as an asset to the company. Delta and Southwest both are doing a good job. They blog regularly about everything from airline news to airport food to new airplanes to new airports. They are also making sure to list all of their other social profiles on their blogs…. helping their fans and customers stay in contact with them all over the internet.

Southwest’s blog is extremely user friendly and easy to follow.

Another great way these airlines are using social media to help their business is with Flickr. When people travel they take lots of pictures. Airlines such as Jet Blue have realized this and began to use it towards their advantage. I was recently on Jet Blue’s flickr page and was impressed by what I saw.

In their flickr group customers can post both photos and video’s. Members of this Flickr group can comment on each other photos and can add each other as friends…. encouraging relationship building. These members appear to be customers, fans and employees of JetBlue and from the comments are totally connecting.

Hopefully the title got your attention and you thought that this kid must clearly not be able to type.  Many of you are probably aware of the underground world of websites that broadcast sports games online for free; many of you probably think that those websites have similar addresses to the one in this blog post’s title.

These websites’ business models bring into question the ethics of internet entrepreneurship.  Surely these sites fill a great need: fans want to watch their teams and don’t have cable, or don’t want to pay for streaming services online.  Nonetheless, it’s clearly an illegal operation.  Keep the legality of your service in consideration.  I assume most people will not try to run a brothel from a website, but make sure to clear things up with the people in charge if you are unsure of the legal aspects of your business.

Social Media Marketing is a quickly growing field that is being appreciated more and more by businesses around the world. Utilizing social media platforms to promote your business is more important now than ever. Unfortunately, for most business owners, they are not sure exactly how to use social media in this way. They feel as though they are trying to take a small sip from a fire hose. That’s where GuavaBox steps in. This semester myself, Gray MacKenzie, Andrew Dymski, and Brandon Jones created this company as a way to help businesses and Non-profits achieve their goals on the web. Whether that is through educational consulting or website development, GuavaBox is there to help them succeed on the internet.