I have been writing for almost 4 years now about the power of social media. With Linkedin’s success on their IPO – shares closed at Thursday’s closing price of $94, it’s trading at 36 times its 2010 revenue; Google trades at five times.

This legitimizes the power and success of social media and re-enforces for all businesses – it is time to get into the game. It also points to many other big companies, Canada’s major retailer The Bay is rumored to be looking at an IPO for the fall. But how are these retailers leveraging the power of social media – as they step into the future in their marketing and continue to engage  their customers? Read the rest of this entry »

The latter part of this year has been difficult to keep up with blog writing. As an ongoing care giver for my 90 yr. old father (yes no cane, wheel chair or walker and living by himself) – helping get him back to health – has turned out to be another small business to run! I am sure there are many of you out there that can relate and for me family is always first. As we get closer to our solution of having him get back to his life…I too will be able to focus on providing you with more regular posts of interesting and thought provoking ideas, opinions and happenings in the world of technology and social media.

Search in the world of technology is the main driver and source of revenue for all of us looking to build our visibility online. “As a marketing strategy, SEO is used to increase a site’s relevance. The SEO recognizes how search organics work and what people are searching for. It also initiates efforts to include unique content to a site to ensure that its content is easily indexed by search engine robots, making it more appealing to users.”

As this year winds down it is important to reflect and see what the past year’s successes, failures, tragedy’s and challenges were- in order to help plan and build enthusiasm, goals and growth for the year ahead. I came across this video via Google Zeitgeist 2010 that provides you with a great overview of the top searches in 2010 around the globe. Great way to get the juices flowing as we all plan to search on in 2011.

2010 in Review

Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.

Enjoy!

Best Nicole

One of the ways that companies can be successful with a  ROI via onine initiatives – is through search. Search defined as Search Engine Marketing is defined as “a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of search engine optimization, paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion.” in Wikipedia.  One of the regular questions we receive from our clients both current and new is what is the next thing? Read the rest of this entry »

Lets face it we all want sales. Social media is a magnificent vehicle to build relationships with your customers, engage and connect with them – with the goal of creating a long term relationship - their part is to purchase your products and services and your part is to provide for them the products and services they need and those things that will solve their problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Not sure if you heard but Bill Gates joined Twitter and already has 300,000 followers. I have been on Twitter for a year and we have about 1170 followers which is pretty good, as I like to read most of my tweets throughout the day and that is a lot of info to go through and absorb.
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I am always trying to find new ways to demonstrate to everyone how social media can be used for success. Leveraging an honest and direct relationship with your customer—so that they want to continue to talk with you, listen to you, share their ideas and concerns with you and be your brand evangelist! That’s the ultimate goal.
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With so much information out there and so many websites to visit, your website has to be very clear with its intention. Each page needs to state clearly the type of action you intend your visitor to take. It is a one click world and nobody has the time or the patience to search around and figure out, not only how and where to search, but also what the intention is of the owner of the site.
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The talk from Twitters critics is that it is cooling off—that it is not a viable source from which to engage and connect. The article that I am going to feature today, comes from Advertising Age and certainly gives a reason to second guess that particular viewpoint. Hey, it may be worth a second look if you have already written Twitter off.
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As Michael Jackson’s memorial service is about to take place today, I thought this post about measuring metrics (for what will be invariably your own 15 minutes of fame—coming in the very near future!) was definately appropos!
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I have written many posts that include tips about how to use social media tools. And in my mind, when a respected newspaper such as the Wall Street Journal features such articles, they are sending a strong message to all businesses that haven’t got into the social media marketing mode…..Get in the game!
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