Heres Why Amazon Should Buy Pinterest

I’ve been talking about Pinterest and affiliate marketing for awhile.  This is a great article about collaborative commerce and the potential for an amazing opportunity for Amazon to turn customers into sellers.  Or why wait for Amazon to do it?  This could be a great way for Pinterest or potential investor to develop a [...]

Pinterest Becoming ‘Goto’ Site for Brands; Future of Social Commerce? | Social Commerce Today

This is why I love Pinterest.  This is a nest of potential buyers looking at great images and ready to buy.  This social site is the most like shopping and looking at catalogs than any of the other social sites like Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, etc.  Take a look at the special detailed in this [...]

How to Create a Social Media Strategy for Your Business | Social Media Examiner

What are your marketing goals and how can the Internet help you accomplish those goals.  Just posting on Facebook and Twitter is not a plan and probably will not help you reach your goals or ROI.  Like they say, “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”  The Internet Marketing channel works.  Its no [...]

Integrated Marketing: Why Search Needs a Large Seat at the Table – Search Engine Watch #SEW

Since 1995, I’ve been doing SEO as part of an integrated Internet marketing business, not sure why everyone else in the SEO industry feels like other marketing channels were verboden.  I think because the “industry” commoditized SEO and tried to over specialize Search Engine Marketing to benefit themselves and maybe not the customer.  SEO [...]

Secret Sauce: What Does It Take to Create a Viral Video?

I think most of the time its luck to create a viral video.  The moon, stars, planets and the Trinity must all align perfectly to hit a homerun.  You gotta swing to hit a homerun so you must try.  Plus even if the video does not go viral you SEO on youTube and other [...]

M-commerce is the new e-commerce – Fort Worth Business Press – Fort Worth, TX

Would be interesting to see breakdown of product categories bought on m-commerce.  Is this mostly apps, music and videos?

M-commerce is the new kid on the block, and it’s not going away. Amazon’s report of more than $1 billion in mobile sales this year is proof that mobile shopping is here to stay.

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4 charts that show how social media drives sales relationships

Pretty much the same reasons your customers signed up for your email campaigns.

The top reasons people press the “Like” button on Facebook is to have a sales relationship with a brand - either to receive promotions, coupons, stay informed and show their support for companies.  In other words, when consumers are on Facebook, what we are saying to [...]

77 Percent Of Us Want To Get Marketing Messages Via Email & Theres No Close Second Place, Study Says

To be honest, not a whole lot of Internet Marketing strategies that actually work have changed since 1999. Ya, Ive been doing Internet Marketing that long and longer; 1995.  eMail is still king of conversions and SEO drives customers to your website.  Facebook is the new AOL and blogging and twitter are just more [...]

More Smartphone Users Taking Pictures, Updating Statuses at Restaurants [INFOGRAPHIC]

I know before I go to dinner I am also checking reviews on Yelp and Google Maps.  I have not embraced letting everyone know I am not home but I am in an older demographic at 48.  My wife and I do post good review of restaurants on Facebook and used friend recommendations to [...]

The Future of Marketing: Blogging and Social Media | Visual.ly

If you are not blogging your company is missing a huge opportunity through content creation SEO.  Google loves blogs.  My experience with using WordPress blogs both from WordPress.com and WordPress.org are very positive for Inbound Marketing / Internet Marketing.  In a good way, a blog forces you to update your site with new content [...]