pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact Social Media Users More Likely to Buy From Brands They Follow by Pam Dyer on March 18, 2010 Share People who follow a brand on Facebook or Twitter are more inclined to shop that brand or recommend it to others, according to a new report by Chadwik Martin Bailey. The study, released on March 16th, showed that consumers were up to 67% more likely to recommend or buy products from a brand after following it on social networking sites. Social Media Users More Likely to Buy From Brands They Follow | pamorama. [.] MORE >>

recommend a simple Excel spreadsheet for the former – or you could buy a bit of software that does it for you (if you really want to spend the money). You can buy a program that monitors each search engine’s link count (which won’t be 100% accurate – especially for Bing and Google). Yahoo!, You can find that information through Yahoo!s link building bing google inbound links link checker yahoo Yahoo! But for keeping track of what the search engines consider inbound links, you have two options. Or you can use a free link checker. MORE >>

The news has been released on SAI that Yahoo is to sell Delicious for $1-2m. Not only, as a Delicious user, do I see this as a really sad estimate of a once great service, I really detest Yahoo for making this happen. In 2005, Yahoo acquired Delicious for a reported $30million (although variations on the value go from $10m to $40m). Either way the massive loss that Yahoo has incurred is deserved given the minimal effort that they put in to support it, grow it and broaden the idea behind it. bite-size MORE >>

But we’re talking about one of the most powerful cultural forces of the 21st century … and you can actually buy a piece of it. That means you get to jump into the market and buy a blue chip best-in-breed at a reduced $38 price marker based on general uncertainty that has little to nothing to do with Facebook’s business model. Facebook is buying like crazy. But it’s not buying garbage tech. It’s buying GOOD products. Yahoo! Yahoo! In a nutshell, if you had thrown a HUGE chunk of change at Yahoo! it’s a shrieking buy. MORE >>

The age-old guidance of buying low and selling high has appeared to escape the halls of Yahoo! If we ignore the Microsoft and Yahoo! acquisition dance of 2008 , which ended up in Yahoo!'s Yesterday's news leaked that Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo! Buy high, kill. That's the wrong order of things, Yahoo! AddThis Yahoo Stats Delicious Competehad plans to kill or spin off a number of Web services, including Delicious , Alta Vista , MyBlogLog and others. darlings, and is still widely used, as the Web's definitive bookmarking site. MORE >>