Octologics ( onlineassistants )

Hello my name is Mucio Leoni the founder of Octologics Development & Design. I am pleased that you have taken your time to look into our blog site. Hope some of the info here has been of great value to you and your company. This blog site has been developed, with the intention to bring the best information on the cutting edge of the virtual socialization world, which is fundamental for any small, mid size and corporate size businesses. Again we thank you for the opportunity to introduce ourselves.

02 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

How not to Master

With the ever growing different ways to communicate with one another. Perhaps the most interactive and cost effective, has been the many different social media platforms. With it’s appearance since the late 90′s to beginning of 00′s nobody can deny that social media is here to stay. And many companies are increasing their budget towards [...]

19 October 2011 ~ 2 Comments

How to Get Noticed on Twitter

It’s been 5 years and Twitter has now become an integral part of most people connected via social media. Celebrities are tweeting to increase their popularity in the public, with Ashton Kutcher becoming the first twitter-er who got more than 1,000,000 followers. Even, President Obama is tweeting. That is the power of Twitter! In fact, [...]

29 June 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Email Marketing Best Practices

In email marketing, electronic communication is used as a means of communication, and it is considered to be a source of direct e-mail marketing. Different companies opt for different email marketing best practices according to the needs of the company. Mentioned below are a few, which can be few of the best choices which can [...]

12 June 2011 ~ 2 Comments

How to Use Twitter Effectively

How to Use Twitter for Business Whether you are using Twitter effectively or not does not matter much when you are using it just for connecting with old friends, to chat and the like. But something like Twitter, if used intelligently and smartly, can work wonders for your business. Twitter Twitter What is the Post [...]

10 May 2011 ~ 0 Comments

E-Marketing Strategy

There are many aspects that lead to the success of any business in the industry. Marketing is one such significant aspect that makes a business grow. Nowadays, due to the trend of Internet shopping, companies are adopting marketing strategies, according to how potential consumers use the Internet. Let us know more about an e-marketing strategy. [...]

24 April 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Tips for Social Media Optimization

In online marketing field you have already familiarized with the terms SEO, PPC, ROI and other that are very new terms such as ReTweet or direct message. In fact there are so many terms that are very common. But the optimization of any online initiatives are totally different to that of other medium. In case [...]

19 April 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Black Hat SEO: Long Term Pain

Black hat SEO is an unethical way to get a website to appear higher on search engines. How do you know that a person is using black hat SEO to rank high on search engines? First of all, it breaks the search engine rules and regulations. Second it will create a bad user experience. Lastly, [...]

05 April 2011 ~ 3 Comments

SEO Fundamentals

This article seeks to clarify the fundamentals of SEO and how you can utilize WordPress to aid you. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is concerned with making your site look ‘relevant’ to search engines when users enter keywords. Making your web site the first result on the first page of the search engines [...]

27 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Blogging Tips for Beginners

Some years before when blogging had started gaining popularity, I was one of the many people who decided to try my hand at it. Though I posted a few articles and poems, I soon lost interest in it. One of the reasons for this was that no one actually visited my blog. The frequency of [...]

18 March 2011 ~ 11 Comments

Domain Name and Its Importance

All Internet website owners start out on the internet with high hopes, many expectations and a mind full of energy. The only problem is that they all soon discover the internet and gaining a reputable status on it doesn’t come easy. Here we take a quick look at domain names, their registration factors and how [...]

13 March 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Google Analytics Strategies

Online business owners get free access to one of the best online marketing tools around “Google Analytics”. It will help them to increase the number of visitors to their business websites, thereby increasing the number of subscribers or customers online, as well as increasing the amount of sales done. What it does is, it informs [...]

10 March 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Social media role and future

The great advantages of the social networking sites such as making new friends and keeping in touch with old ones have equal dangers due to information exposure. See more about this matter here! When you really think about it, what is more valuable in this world than people? To have friends, good and belonging to [...]

04 March 2011 ~ 18 Comments

Top Social Networking Sites List

Top Social Networking Sites List With more than a hundred websites to choose from, choosing the best social networking websites is a herculean task indeed. One has to take the various features of these websites, including how friendly the user interface is, the networking applications it has to offer and its security features, to determine [...]

01 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Web 3.0 Design

It often happens that the creators of new technologies have no idea about how their creation will evolve with time. The Internet is such an invention which has transformed the way we communicate with the world. After the initial phase of development of the web, where it purely functioned as an information repository and library [...]

27 February 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Job Hunting with Social Media

Social media can be a great resource to any job hunter in this rough market. With Facebook and Twitter, you are able to search out who’s hiring, post resumes on your profiles, talk to complete strangers about your work history, and make a wonderful first impression. This article will be especially important for the older [...]

10 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Building Relationships via Social Media

Local SEO campaign is a way of trying to boost the business enjoyed by local business but there is more to marketing a business on the internet than just SEO. Whenever a person is engaged in a local SEO campaign, it is because they are trying to boost the business enjoyed by a local business. [...]

29 January 2011 ~ 0 Comments

What counts to optimize for Bing

Which Factors Make a Site Rank Well With Bing As you probably guess, the exact algorithm of Bing is not publicly available and because of that there is a lot of speculation about what weighs more for Bing (in comparison to Google) and what weighs less. Many SEO experts test different search queries, analyze the [...]

17 January 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Facebook stats breakdown

Facebook surrounds us. Most major media channels, brands, organizations, trade groups, non-profits and institutions have a presence on Facebook. Besides being on Facebook everyone is pointing everybody to “connect” with them and their audience on Facebook.  Over 70% of the US population is on Facebook and the exchange of daily conversational activity is staggering.  This [...]

16 January 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Social Media Marketing Beginner’s Guide

What is the hottest social media tool to emerge on the scene this year? It’s ‘Twitter’, and you may get hooked too… According to the  fully packed conference on social media marketing, the Danny Sullivan SMX show in Long Beach, CA, and all-the-rage was Twitter, a micro-blogging platform that many at first (typically) considered a [...]

02 January 2011 ~ 7 Comments

How to Use Social Media… Successfully

How to Use Social Media… Successfully In the previous post, Social Media Marketing (A Warning), I pointed out the potential dangers of using Social Media properties the wrong way. Here, we’ll look at ways you can run a social media campaign successfully, without fear of ultimately doing more harm than good. You have a website [...]

20 December 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Social Media Marketing (A Warning)

Social Media Marketing (A Warning) Social Media properties just may be the focus of the next big “slap”. While its both popular and profitable right now, it seems obvious that in short time the people who are using them right will excel… and those who are simply using social media ‘for promotion only’ will find [...]

05 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Use of Social Media to Build Traffic

Importance of Social media role on building traffic cannot be denied. Most of the top SEO experts and webmasters always emphasize on targeting social media for traffic building. The major websites that plays a considerable role on building great amount of Traffic are Stumble Upon, Digg, Reddit and Twitter. The most common thing about these [...]

05 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

How to Use Squidoo Effectively

Everyone, by now, has heard of Seth Godin’s Squidoo and many of you may have a lens or two in place already. But as a marketer are you maximising the potential of your lens? This series of articles discusses how to use Squidoo effectively as a marketing tool. The idea behind Squidoo was that each [...]

26 November 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Small Business and Social Media Usage

The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business looked at the relationship between social media and small businesses and found that the technology adoption rates in the U.S. have doubled in the past year from 12% to 24%. The data comes straight from the university’s third installment to its Small Business Success Index report and [...]

21 November 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Original 5 rules of SMO

5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO) This is the original post that started the Social Media Optimization revolution and has been cited by thousands of blogs and media sources around the world.  For a more updated view, read the 5 New Rules Of Social Media Optimization published by Rohit exactly 4 years after this [...]

14 November 2010 ~ 14 Comments

A World of Connections

A world of connections Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles (interviewed here) Jan 28th 2010 Illustration by Ian Whadcock THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great [...]

09 November 2010 ~ 13 Comments

Rapid Growth of Social Networking

Rapid Growth In Social Networking Worldwide Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking sites eacmonth accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “Global Faces and Networked Places“. In the UK social networking accounts for about 18% of online time and in Brazil its 25%. Across all [...]

06 November 2010 ~ 19 Comments

Relationship Building w social channels

By Liana Evans As much as social media is about starting conversations, its equally as much about building relationships. Once you start getting involved with social media, it becomes very apparent that it takes time and resources to build those relationships within your community that creates the brand loyalists and promoters, not to mention converting [...]

06 November 2010 ~ 15 Comments

Establishing a Social Media Presence

Pepsi and Old Spice have something small businesses don’t: a lot of money and people. But the competitive landscape has changed. Numerous small companies have capitalized on using social media to increase sales, brand awareness and followers. Will it Blend to date has 117,105,290 YouTube hits. Ramon Deleon of Domino’s Pizza Chicago received great press [...]

01 November 2010 ~ 25 Comments

Social Media and Internet Use

Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adult Since 2006, blogging has fallen among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking websites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for micro-blogging with status [...]

31 October 2010 ~ 13 Comments

Social Media vs Marketing tactic!

Social Media is a communications channel and not a marketing tactic! Rather than think of Social Media as part of the marketing toolkit, it would be more accurate to consider Social Media as a communications channel. Social Media isn’t a one-way advertising medium but a channel for two-way (or more) dialog; it is much more [...]

28 October 2010 ~ 11 Comments

Importance of Social Media

Marketing is essential to any business and is generally referred to as the most important aspect of any business strategy. Large companies spend millions of dollars to hire reputed agencies to handle the marketing of their business whereas smaller companies rely on more creative and cost efficient methods. In the extremely competitive world of today, [...]

11 May 2010 ~ 20 Comments

Benefícios de um assistente virtual.

* Você permanece no ceu trageto e em horário. * Nenhum tempo desperdiçado em descansos nem assuntos pessoais. * Nenhum extra espaço é exigido. Nenhuma perda de privacidade. * Fornecimento de apoio conjunto para ajudar realizar suas metas. * Nenhuma necessidade de comprar um extra computador, software, escrivaninha, cadeira, telefone e nem estoques para ser [...]

25 March 2010 ~ 39 Comments

Consideration of hiring an employee.

* You must pay employer social security taxes. * You must collect and pay FICA taxes. * You must pay workers’ compensation insurance. * You must pay federal and state unemployment taxes. * You must comply with OSHA. * You must comply with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) including minimum wage and overtime [...]

25 March 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

* You stay on track and on schedule. * Works only when you need support. You are not obligated to pay for a certain number of hours a week. * No time wasted on breaks or personal issues. * No extra space is required. No loss of privacy. * Provides ongoing, collaborative support to help [...]

14 March 2010 ~ 24 Comments

Benefits of a Virtual Assistant

Many of you may know that working with a Virtual Assistant (VA) is the way to go in business today. Anyone can work with a Virtual Assistant: individual or business. You don’t have to have a business to work with a VA. If you work in the business world or if you’re a business owner [...]

14 March 2010 ~ 11 Comments

Why hire a Virtual Assistant?

Partnering with a Virtual Assistant reduces your operating costs, while assuring you get the best, professional service. A Virtual Assistant is a business owner, thus reducing costs for payroll, benefits, and employer taxes. You also save costs in providing office equipment, office space, furniture, and supplies for a regular employee, as a Virtual Assistant already [...]