How To Harness Crowd Power 1 4 How To Harness Crowd Power The internet is a large place. Billions of users access and create sites and pages every day. This crowd of the internet is a massive one, and many are designing and utilizing ways to take advantage of the crowd of humanity. Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and crowdcreation are all fairly recent frontiers on the horizon of technology.
Will Tweet For Food? 1 3 Will Tweet For Food? Job hunting? Have you thought about Twitter? As in, do you tweet? Do you have a presence in the growing center of the world’s ongoing real-time conversation? More and more, recruiters and employers are interested in what you say online, and who you know. Having a solid footprint on Twitter—a decent number of followers, interesting
American Express and Twitter: Why Their New Program Will Be a Hit 1 1 American Express and Twitter: Why Their New Program Will Be a Hit American Express and Twitter announced their brand new partnership this week that will allow tweeters to make purchases simply by doing what they do best... tweeting. At first glance it seems like a pretty painless process. You start by syncing your American Express card to your Twitter account. Once this is done you can purchase
Our Favorite Pinterest Tactic 5 1 Our Favorite Pinterest Tactic Share your best Pinterest tips in tricks in the comments section!
Vine Won't Change Video Marketing [VIDEO] 0 5 Vine Won't Change Video Marketing [VIDEO] ...But it may help bring your tweets to life. Like any other group of opportunistic marketers, we all sat around and racked our brains about how to use Twitter's new video app, Vine, to get traffic, or make us money, or make us famous... or something. We kept running into the same marketing problem: Can
How Sensation Pieces Kill Your Career 0 5 How Sensation Pieces Kill Your Career Well, maybe not your career in it's entirety, but it will at least shoot a hole in your credibility. And if done repetitively you may just kiss your online reputation goodbye. And once you lose that, well... you know what happens next. Unless of course you're writing/tweeting/posting for a radical audiences. But I'm assuming you're
HootSuite: A Superbowl Showoff 0 4 HootSuite: A Superbowl Showoff While Joe Flacco was throwing impressive passes and Beyoncé was shaking through a stunning halftime routine last weekend, HootSuite was stealing the Super Bowl show in the social media world. HootSuite, a social media analytics company, launched a real time Super Bowl Command Center in a partnership with FSC Interactive. The New Orleans Super Bowl XLVII
Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial Unleashes Share-apalooza 7 2 Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial Unleashes Share-apalooza Bridging the online/offline gap isn't easy. It's a supercharged marketing riddle that is yet to be solved... but we're getting close. The response last night's installment in the Budweiser Clydesdale Super Bowl legacy shows just how far we've come. Less than 12 hours after it aired, this commercial has become the 3rd most shared in
Facebook Gave Us Targeted Posts! 3 4 Facebook Gave Us Targeted Posts! Yesterday afternoon, our social media team (her name is Molly) noticed something fancy and new on our Facebook Page. Now, when we click to create a new post -- right between the scheduling and geo-tagging buttons -- we now see a little button with some cross hairs on it... We were a little mystified at
[Quick Tip] 3 Easy Social Engagement Tricks 9 1 [Quick Tip] 3 Easy Social Engagement Tricks Social media has become a point of pride for pretty much all brands and marketers now... I realized the other day. Along with the immense traffic and relationships you can build on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc., social media is where brands literally have a chance to show off how well they understand their audience. Social
Pinterest Gets A $30M Angel Injection 2 1 Pinterest Gets A $30M Angel Injection If your excitement over Pinterest has cooled off over the last couple of months, know this: Investor enthusiasm is still riding high, e.g. SV Angel Investors just gave it $30M. Digital Marketer's Pinterest community has actually been growing steadily and organically... go check it out. That's really important to me, because it's our only real
Manti Te'o Hoax: A Case Study In Virality 2 4 Manti Te'o Hoax: A Case Study In Virality There's really nothing I can say about the Manti Te'o debacle that hasn't been said better by Deadspin, or that's actually relevant to online marketing in general... Except this: The Te'o hoax is giving us an awesome chance to watch a viral story in action as it evolves across all the social media platforms. In
Why Facebook Graph Search Is Good For Marketers 0 2 Why Facebook Graph Search Is Good For Marketers For years, true social search has been just over the horizon... the next big development to revolutionize search. If you spend a little time on Twitter Search, you'll see why -- It's incredibly addictive. Google, Bing, Yahoo... all the big players are trying to integrate social media into search results. But how? What if Twitter's
Proof You Guys Are Awesome! #TCS2013 0 1 Proof You Guys Are Awesome! #TCS2013 Wow! That's all we can say as we take a look at your submissions to our #TCS2013 VIP Contest. Since Friday, the videos, tweets, and photos have been pouring in. And seriously, we've been getting some pretty amazing entries... So amazing, in fact, that I just had to share a few of our current favorites
Final Checklist For Traffic And Conversion #TCS2013 2 3 Final Checklist For Traffic And Conversion #TCS2013 It’s the week of the 2013 Traffic and Conversion Summit and we’re scrambling to make some last minute preparations for San Francisco. You’re probably doing the same thing too if you’re attending! And since your head is surely spinning by this point, we came up with a last minute checklist for your T&C needs to
Your Flickr Photos = NOT Private 0 1 Your Flickr Photos = NOT Private If you have any photos that you'd like to keep private on Flickr, better go and review your Creative Commons settings. Because now, pretty much any Yahoo user can happen onto your photos with a simple image search... IF you have made them available for "re-use or re-posting under Creative Commons terms." From now on,
T&C Attendees: Win A Free VIP Upgrade! #TCS2013 1 2 T&C Attendees: Win A Free VIP Upgrade! #TCS2013 The Traffic and Conversion Summit is less than a week away and the Digital Marketer team couldn’t be more excited to meet with some of the best talent out there in the digital marketing! Teams are flying in from the UK, Sydney, and all across the globe to be part of the best digital marketing
David Murray To Headline DM Engage San Francisco 0 1 David Murray To Headline DM Engage San Francisco If you're planning to launch a start-up in 2013, you absolutely need to drop by DM Engage in San Francisco on Thursday Jan 17th. It's kind of a big deal... Because the star of Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley will be teaching the class. That's right, David Murray will be sharing his wildly successful start-up strategies
Social Media Could Save Your Life, Seriously 0 1 Social Media Could Save Your Life, Seriously When it comes to social media, there are 3 types of people: People that think social media is useless People that think it's useful for pointless entertainment People who think it can be used for mega important purposes Last week, a friend over at SuvivalLife wrote an article that may just turn group 2-ers into
Sell Your OWN Instagram Photos With Statigram [UPDATED] 4 3 Sell Your OWN Instagram Photos With Statigram [UPDATED] UPDATED 1.11.2013 - Thanks to Kate Buck Jr., I just found out about another Instagram tool that makes selling your Instagram photos even easier! It's called Instacanvas... I've updated this post to include links... enjoy! If you have an Instagram or Facebook account, you probably heard about that little user revolt that sprang up in
Facebook's New Disappearing Ink App 2 3 Facebook's New Disappearing Ink App Just how popular is the concept of disappearing ink in the digital world? Apparently, Facebook believes the demand for messaging that self-destructs by design, like in a spy movie, that the Social Network is launching an app that will allow users to send messages that automatically delete themselves after a period of a few seconds...
