What’s so hot about Pinterest? Lots of things. When you review an infographic about Pinterest, you learn some very interesting things. Did you know that when Pinterest launched in 2012 it became the fastest growing social network with 10 million unique visitors (from the U.S.)? Its innovative design (though DaGama Web Studio created a somewhat
There’s a new kid on the block and she’s giving Google a run for its money: Pinterest.com (pin-te-rest) is a virtual bulletin board. You probably have a bulletin board that hangs on your wall at home, with cut-out pictures of things you want to get and postcards of places you’d like to go, right? –That’s what Pinterest
My favorite stats from the stellar infographic, below, are these: 80% of companies use social media for recruitment and 95% of them use LinkedIn. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest country, behind China and India. Users accessing Facebook through their mobile phones grew by 200% from 2011-2012 53% of
Note: this blog post was written in 2012 and is still highly valuable. Please read on: There’s a tool that exists that’s an absolutely HUGE opportunity for you to get found by your local customers and you probably already own this tool: your smartphone. More importantly, your “probable” customers most likely own a smartphone. With 95% of smartphone users searching for local
Unless you’ve been living off the grid, in the woods, under a rock, you know that social media has become part of our lives. We’ll look back on 2011 as the year that social media became like the air we breathe – so much a part of us that we wonder about those people who
Social Capital has many definitions. Don’t get it mixed up with what makes up your Online Reputation (the search results people see when they Google your name), although that IS part of your Social Capital. For the purpose of marketing your business, social capital is made up of the VALUE of your SOCIAL NETWORKS and
A study done recently by Experian/Simmons found that 98 per cent of people aged 18-24 years old use social media on a monthly basis and 82 per cent of people aged 55-64 years old also use it. Facebook continues to dominate as the place most Americans go to on a regular basis, with 58 per
Did you know you can control the background image in your Twitter profile? Be sure you take advantage of this because you can use that area to add more information about yourself, such as your logo; your social network icons; your phone number and website address or use it like I did recently: I added
Facebook introduces “Timeline” – Facebook’s new look and concept – on October 1, 2011. Timeline is bound to revolutionize the way we use Facebook because it will make us begin to think of our lives as something to be documented for our grandchildren, great-grandchildren and for generations to come. With Timeline, Facebook has truly become
In a day after it went public, Google+, Google’s Social Network, emerged as the world’s third largest Social Networking site, according to Hitwise. Google+ saw a dramatic growth of 1269% in one week after it came out of field testing (comparing the week ending September 17th to the week of September 24, 2011). Google+ received
Google+ is an evolution of some of the best features and qualities of the most popular and useful social networks to-date. For instance, Google realized that filtering our friends, fans and followers is a tool that’s very much needed but not successfully provided by other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. That’s what Google+’s
In the race to win our hearts and minds and pocketbooks, Facebook is a social network trying to be all things to all people. Google is all things to all people, trying to be a social network. In this race, Google is winning, thanks to Google+ and some other things that Google rolled out recently…
Heard a lot about Google+ yet in your part of the universe? In its first two weeks and in a BETA-only state of being (invitation-only, too!) it’s gained 10 million users. Quite impressive when you compare it to Facebook’s first YEAR of growth, which was 5.5 million users in one YEAR. Granted, way back then,
Here’s a checklist of simple tips to improve your blogging so that your readers crave what you write. Remember: your readers read your stuff because you have knowledge they want and you write it in such a way that keeps them wanting more. Blogging on a consistent basis makes your traffic increase–but first, apply my blogging tips.
Let’s face it: even the most prolific writers run dry now and then and can’t think of what to write about. Same thing happens to us all in Twitter. We aren’t all as witty as other Twitter-ers like Boris. Not to worry! If you can’t think of something witty or profound to say, it’s perfectly acceptable to pass along other people’s content in your tweets, (and highly encouraged) as long as you link to the original post and, ideally, include the person’s Twitter name, too. (That’s called “Re-Tweeting” or doing an “RT”).
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