February 2012
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Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits →
If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest, then hopefully new data released for January 2012 illuminating that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). To get started, here’s a step-by-step tutorial for nonprofits...
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Marketers: What Mobile Users Will and Won't Put Up... →
Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are even more connected to their mobile devices than you might think. Nine in 10 young adults spend between one and five hours on their mobile devices daily. Nearly one in 10, meanwhile, are on their gadgets between five and ten hours each day. Just …
A good read for those working on the mobile side. Being in customers’ pockets gives you...
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What Marketers Can Learn From Whole Foods' Organic... →
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Really great to see brands thriving on a platform like Pinterest.
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10 Ways to Deal With Upset Customers Using Social... →
How are you responding to upset customers?
No matter what you sell or what industry you’re in, you’re going to experience negative word of mouth.
You know, those customers who are expressing their complaints on social media.
It just happens.
Things break, problems come up and employees have bad days. But it’s how you handle it that separates you from everyone else.
Remember: Negative word...
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Site Owners Can Now Prevent Content From Appearing... →
From the article:
Although Pinterest is growing at record-breaking speeds, not everyone deems it a good fit for their brand. Because of this, the company is now helping site owners prevent their content from appearing on pinboards.
Pinterest encourages members to pin content from websites onto digital pinboards. A major concern of site owners is that the company allows its members to add...
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So Your Boss Wants You to Try Pinterest - Sally... →
From Sally Lawton at Persephone Magazine:
Do you do online marketing? Is your boss constantly asking you to get on board with the latest, greatest social media? Does your company actually have a Google+ page? Is Pinterest next on your boss’ list of things-that-will-make-your-crap-popular? Excellent. Follow me and let’s discover how everything social media is here to make us buy things and save...
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 7:... →
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From the article:
Now, we’re not talking about terrible job situations where you’re being harassed and dreading going to work every day and making yourself psychosomatically ill. That’s a whole different can of worms. Some of these tips might help, but if your job situation is really abusive, the only thing that can help is putting your all into getting yourself out of there as...
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Socially Acceptable: The Future of Sharing on... →
Users of social networks are getting tired of sharing — but that doesn’t mean sharing is on the decline. A new study analyzes sharing behaviors on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and makes predictions for the future of sharing.
Digital agency Beyond released the study for Social…
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How Whitney Houston News Broke — and Exploded — on... →
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 6:... →
We’re a month into our Positivity Challenge and I think this week is a good time to check in and see how everyone’s doing. One of the greatest things that happens when you are more mindful about positivity is that you find the positivity comes back to you. Call it karma, the three-fold return law, coincidence, whatever you like…it happens. I’d like to share a couple of ways it’s returned to...
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 5:... →
So there you are, you’re doing great with this positivity thing. Or your new fitness routine. Or your job search. Things are going great and you’re feeling really great and then BLAM! The world dumps on you. You get an injury, you’re out sick for a week, you don’t get that promotion, your boyfriend is being a jerk, your mom is being a nag, your hair looks terrible and nothing fits right and your...
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Facebook Timeline for Brands Coming Later This...
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"The Social Media Breakup" →
headovr6inheels:
Many relationships end at some point. For the most part, consumers’ reasons for leaving a relationship is based around a brands inability to deliver on expectations.
This study came out about a year ago, but always good to beep in mind. Why are customers following you? How can you deliver?
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 4:... →
“You have beautiful hair.”
I almost had to look behind myself to see who the cashier was talking to. It couldn’t have been me. I barely finished drying it and just stuck it up in a ponytail in the morning and hadn’t taken it out since. My bangs were sure to be oily (from my huge forehead) and my roots were starting to come in. But she was, in fact, talking to me. And it brought a huge smile to...
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Pinterest: How Do U.S. and UK Users Compare?... →
If you’ve spent any time on Pinterest, the hottest new social network since sliced bread, you might have noticed its popularity among certain demographics — namely, women who are into fashion, weddings, home decor and puppies. But some data compiled by Visual.ly sheds light on the interesting…
The majority of UK users are males, interested in venture capital and blogging...
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 3:... →
Two weeks in… How are we doing? Have you been working on your empathy and making your black lists? This week’s challenge might be another tricky one because it deals with unconscious behaviors. Don’t worry, next week will be a fun one!
An interesting quote about Automatic Apologizing has been floating around tumblr recently (although, of course, now that I want to credit it, I can’t find...
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[Persephone Magazine] Positivity Challenge Week 2:... →
Welcome back! This week, we’re going to tackle a topic that a few commenters brought up in the last Challenge.
Erika: “I’ve found that blog[s] typically have contributed to my cynicism and decreased empathy towards people. I tend to read many political blogs and or celeb gossip blogs, which inherently make me hate the world most of the time.”
CGMcBG: “I struggle with this also. I stopped...