Month: November 2012

What to Look for in Star Employees

What to Look for in Star Employees

A Checklist to Measure Productive Workers CEOs and bosses, watch out! According to Jada Graves, a contributing writer to Businessinsider.com, many outstanding employees have 12 traits in common. Here are the characteristics that make up an employee to treasure: Reference: BusinessInsider.com

Pinning to Get Customers Pinterested

Pinning to Get Customers Pinterested

How do Entrepreneurs Succeed in Pinterest Marketing Entrepreneurs who do well in Pinterest make it their goal to show off well-taken pictures from their store. As Pinterest is a visual content sharing network, other businesses take a look at the most successful boards to see what pictures get the most likes, comments and ‘repins.’ The…

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Images that Interest and Intrigue

Images that Interest and Intrigue

Tips to Make Your Target Audience Pinterested with Your Photos Need Pinteresting pictures? Here are some methods that will catch the attention of your target audience: 1. Pin your own unique images. When using Pinterest for your own campaigns, make sure you’re advertising your photos from your business. These images should reflect what you are…

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Open for Business in Pinterest

Open for Business in Pinterest

How to Use the Latest Social Site to Join the Social Networking Race   Pinterest is said to be women’s domain. It is estimated that for every 10 users, there are eight females and two males. Although women dominate this newcomer social media site, Pinterest is a leading referral traffic generator for retail brands. In…

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Instagram + Pinterest: A Visual Formula for Social Media

Instagram + Pinterest: A Visual Formula for Social Media

How Filtered, Pinteresting Pictures can Bring New Life to Your Marketing Campaigns Instagram gained instant popularity when it was first launched in Apple’s App Store in October 2010. This mobile app lets users take photos and apply digital filters. It quickly gained a wide following from 100,000 in October up to 1 million users in…

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Look at Ability and Track Records when Considering Social Media Staff

Look at Ability and Track Records when Considering Social Media Staff

Tips in Considering New Graduates for Social Media Positions You’re ready to venture into social media but don’t know enough to become successful at it. You look over a list of candidates for the job and considered hiring someone fresh out of college to man the post. After all, the younger generation are more savvy…

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Responding to Negative Reviews the Right Way

Responding to Negative Reviews the Right Way

Protect Your Online Reputation from the Effects of Negative Reviews Finding a negative review of your business can be distressing. The reflex reaction is to ignore the review and move on. This is a mistake that will backfire once you search your business and seepages dedicated to results that show reviews like these: Don’t trust…

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Making Businesses Available for Customer Communication

Making Businesses Available for Customer Communication

How to Increase Visibility when Customers Need You It’s hard to keep up with day-to-day operations, meetings, client talks, and customer service all at once. We can only attend to one thing at a time to effectively accomplish any task. But, aren’t customers the most important aspect of any business? Without them, there would be…

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Coping in the World of Social Media

Coping in the World of Social Media

How Traditional Businesses can Weather the Social Media Times Newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, and other print publications have been around more years than we could count on our fingers. Tabloids or broadsheets have been our staple reading material every morning. Sheets were turned and news will come out to tell us the latest thing that…

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Mobilize Your Mobile Marketing Strategy

Mobilize Your Mobile Marketing Strategy

Start Campaigning on the Mobile Web the Future of the Internet Although many people prefer to surf the Internet using their personal computers, there are those who prefer to remain connected while on the go. They check out their social networking accounts, email, play online games or look up some establishments where they can shop…

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