Month: September 2012

Hello, Vendor! I’m Very Much Pinterested.

Hello, Vendor! I’m Very Much Pinterested.

How to Perform Pleasing & Popular Pinterest Marketing Campaigns After gaining popularity since the early months of 2012, Pinterest became the next biggest social network after Facebook and Twitter. Its current demographics show that women remain its top users at 68%. This social networking site acts like a virtual mix of pinboards and scrapbooks where…

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Get Your Customers Talking about Your Brand

Get Your Customers Talking about Your Brand

How Blogging can Start Your Marketing Campaign and Spread Word about Your Business You’ve heard about how content can drive a high pace of customer engagement for many businesses. How do you get the same benefits they now enjoy? What you can do is to study their content marketing strategies. One thing you’ll notice is…

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Compliments, Comments and Complaints

Compliments, Comments and Complaints

How online reviews, whether good or bad, make customers sit up and notice Customers use reviews to help them find a business where they can find good-quality merchandise and fine service. They scour review sites like Yelp! and Angie’s List for establishments with many positive reviews. Once they find one with a long list of…

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Smartphones are Changing the E-Commerce Landscape

Smartphones are Changing the E-Commerce Landscape

…and grows to compete with laptop notebooks and desktop computers.According to Alex Matjanec of Marketingprofs.com, 50% of mobile phone users in the United States own smartphones. More and more users are also using their phones to make purchases online. Twenty-three percent of users go online for shopping in 2010; by 2012, it grew to 35%…

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Lights, Camera and Videos!

Lights, Camera and Videos!

How to Make Videos Popular Among Your Target Audience A video with a story that engages the viewers’ interest retains more attention. Stories that intrigue, shock, amuse or horrify stick more to the memory than videos with bland beginnings and dramatic endings. This is because the first 10 to 15 seconds are most vital to…

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Attract Customers Like a Flower Beckons Bees

Attract Customers Like a Flower Beckons Bees

How to Capture Readers with Well-Written Marketing Content You want to attract new customers to your business. Before you can do that, you need to make them curious enough to ask more questions about your merchandise. How do you do that? According to John Jantsch, content marketing has to have three characteristics to get and…

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Who are You when You Write?

Who are You when You Write?

The Importance of Voice in Writing When we write, it is essential to establish a clear voice that will make our content compelling to read. Content becomes boring and tiresome to read when we don’t make the opening sentence catchy enough. An introduction that starts with a nondescript scene can make readers nod off and…

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Building a Brand through Social Media

Building a Brand through Social Media

How Entrepreneurs can Start on Online Business Campaigns As the Internet grows older, new applications pop up. Websites and search engines came first, and then the social networks started appearing and attracting users from almost every part of the world. Before social media, businesses can put up a well-designed website and tweak it now and…

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Monitoring Social Media: Is it Worth it?

Monitoring Social Media: Is it Worth it?

Launch a campaign with a tracking application to measure your growth. If you don’t have one, you cannot gauge your social reach. It shows what type of posts work best for your brand and helps you think of topics that will get attention. Use social media monitoring tools (SMM) to find out how your campaigns…

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