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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Report: Pinterest is third most-visited social site – CNN.com

I love Pinterest.  If you are a big affiliate marketer or ecommerce business with products that take great pictures, then Pinterest is a perfect way to market your products.

Think back six months. You probably never had heard of a little website called Pinterest.

Now it’s the third most-visited social-networking site in the United [...]

Colorado study says Facebook, Twitter use contribute to drop in youth driving | TechKnow Bytes — Colorado technology — The Denver Post

I wonder what this looks like Nationally and how this effects shopping and ecommerce, especially if kids aren’t driving to malls or the movies.

Coloradans are driving less, and rising gas prices isn’t the only reason.

A new study by CoPIRG finds that the use of technology, from smartphone apps to social networking sites [...]

Twitter – I finally get Tweeting

Twitter for may years was a hit and miss for me.  I kept trying to Tweet to a few of my friends thinking it would be a similar experience to Facebook.  Not!

From 2008, I made several unsuccessful attempts to become a tweet master until last July 2010, I finally grabbed a book about [...]

Twitter to more Leads

from SES email

I’ve been beating up Twitter to all my friends and now maybe I should stop.  According to a new study by Hubspot, “The State of Inbound Lead Generation” March 2010, small to medium sized businesses doubled their leads by using Twitter.  I guess I will start Tweating like a new [...]

Retailers Using Twitter – Social Networking

Ok, so I keep talking about Twitter use to my colleagues. I recently cam across this site, Retailer Twitter Aggregation, that aggregates some of the larger retailers’ tweets.  This looks interesting.

I keep wondering how Twitter is making money and how it will survive beyond a Google [...]