Holding a competition or giveaway on Facebook can be awfully confusing. Both large brands and small companies can be seen breaching Facebook’s rules and policies when it comes to contests.… read more →
Things have gotten a little crazy in the world of social media marketing. Between Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (which is missing from this diagram, by the way), YouTube, LinkedIn, apps, software,… read more →
Anyone that reads our blog knows that we’re obsessed with Infographics – not only because we think they are pretty but because we’re information geeks too!
Ever wondered when are people most likely to share content on the web? What services are they sharing to
most frequently? As social marketers, we wonder these questions every day and continually pick up trends with each of our clients.
For its fifth birthday, AddThis, the world’s largest bookmarking and sharing service, has provided us with answers to the burning questions of when, where, why and how. It’s hard to imagine five years ago, there were less than a hundred million people using the internet. Today, we have over 1.2 billion users sending traffic to the virtual world on a daily basis. As a medium for all sorts of communication, you’d be amazed at the true sharing behavior of web users.
Check out this pretty infographic titled, Five Years of Sharing. Do you find any of their statistics surprising?
Perhaps one of the questions I am asked most frequently is whether or not to automate Twitter with Facebook updates or to send tweets to update your business’ Facebook status.… read more →
Often times businesses focus too heavily on marketing and selling their product that they miss the most important part of social media – being social! Today’s Tip: Don’t forget to… read more →
What is social media? This video is quite possibly one of the most moving videos about social media ever made. Fellow Michigan State University alum and author of Socialnomics, Erik… read more →