Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 22, 2015

Social media has come a long way since the days of Friendster and MySpace. Or it could be someone who walks into the door of your retail store. Facebook was a game changer in a big way. But other social media websites have upped the ante in some very real ways. YouTube, for instance, is the second largest search engine on the planet.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

There is a new report from ForeSee Results that details research that they performed showing that social media is responsible for only three percent of web site visits to retail web sites. Social media scored just two percent of the vote. - In last place was radio outreach and mobile communications with one percent each. -

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Cyber Monday is a marketing term that refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday being the busiest day of the year for retail electronic commerce in the United States. Nearly 80% of online retailers say their sales went way up last year on Cyber Monday. That's more than 51 million people logging on at work.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. Jason was working in PR in the restaurant industry when MySpace tanked and Facebook rose to glory. From Cision , a free ebook called Power Your Story: Content Marketing Essentials. Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

link] FriendFeed [link] LinkedIn [link] MySpace [link] Twitter [link] Digg [link] Seesmic [link] Stumbleupon [link] Ning – Create Your Own Social Network [link] Squidoo [link] Social Tools & Apps Hootsuite – Our Fav!! eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy. if yes, please explain.

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Saying It Social

APRIL 21, 2010

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit April 21, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Facebook | Facebook , facebook social plugins , like on the web , facebook like button , like button 5 Comments » wat is your myspace page Comment by What does my name mean? eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 21, 2013

retailers, in comparison to 40% coming directly, and 34% from search. It was the same year Facebook launched for Harvard students, the year after the arrival of Myspace, and two years before Twitter arrived. A study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S In March, 2007, I joined Twitter.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2010

eBay and Amazon Sites experienced gains in December as retail search activity picked up during the holiday season.&#. MySpace Sites 439 416 -5% -. According to comScore, “Bing experienced large growth during the month with a 6-percent increase in query volume to nearly 1.4 billion searches. eBay 635 680 7% -. craigslist, inc.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. The main disadvantage may be the difficulty in establishing a personal connection like you would in a hometown retail store. Who has time for this?

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 21, 2013

retailers, in comparison to 40% coming directly, and 34% from search. It was the same year Facebook launched for Harvard students, the year after the arrival of Myspace, and two years before Twitter arrived. A study just released by Adobe puts social as the source of 2% of traffic to U.S In March, 2007, I joined Twitter.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 1, 2011

Adam’s experience is that record and book shops provide an element of serendipity missing in online retailers, and this is also a familiar comment on news services, and information via social networks which connect you with friends likely to share your world view. And retailers?:

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Reply verygoodservice November 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm Some of the trends highlighted in this post are continuing to develop with more and more high street retailers not only establishing a presence on Twitter but using it for proactive customer service Reply Richard A. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

For example, the markers for a jump to cloud computing for a declining retail company are quite different than the markers for a growing startup to embrace a business intelligence application. Yes, there are different reasons for different companies to adopt different technologies at different times.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

MySpace Opens Up Data Portability Initiative. 100,000 retail value. Senate Delays Vote on Surveillance Bill Until July. VMware, MS Battle Over Virtualization Management. Yahoo Trumpets Reorganization. Cloudbook Maker Everex Snapped Up By Newmarket. IBM Using Chocolate to Capture African Market. Glo Gateway Extends Roaming Services.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

While many lawyers shy away from Facebook for business development, if you are practicing retail law: family law, personal injury law, employment law etc – than Facebook is a great place to engage with individuals talking about what you do. Twitter may disappear tomorrow, and Facebook may go the way of MySpace (who?).

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 23, 2023

Design what you can Geriatric millennials might remember when they could spruce up their MySpace page with browser-breaking HTML codes. Online luxury retailer Ssense keeps a tight knit group of people it follows on Twitter, helping further its reputation as part of the fashion conversation.

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SocialFish

DECEMBER 23, 2019

With the rise to fame of Myspace , venture funding poured rapidly into the social media space, resulting in the growth of giants like Facebook as well as several other networking platforms. The premium plan retails at $7.99 Capable mobile phones were also becoming a thing, and the mobile sector got some venture capital love as well.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. We’ve gone from MySpace… [link] [link] Dorothy Dalton RT @BengtWendel: The next online gold rush? Influence mining.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Here’s a whitepaper they created: [link] [link] Marketing Corporate [EN] Les médias sociaux, des outils particulièrement adaptés à la #RSE [link] [link] Marketing Corporate [EN] Les médias sociaux, des outils particulièrement adaptés à la #RSE [link] [link] IBM Retail NL RT @jaybaer: Some great insight from @LauraHall about social media and corporate (..)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

To connect his observations to actual steps that retailers can take to PROFIT. To really do so. Not drive sales revenue or create leads. No… to profit.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

74% and 73% of the Inc 500 use Facebook and LinkedIn respectively, and the study concluded: “Fewer [companies] are using blogging, message/bulletin boards, online video, podcasting and MySpace. Of the top 10 brands on Pinterest , 9 are lifestyle/retail. But Blogging Actually Works.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 22, 2010

In fact, you can now send gift cards from retailers and merchants like the Gap , Pottery Barn , Barnes & Noble and Starbuck’s. And you can send gift cards through five different social media web sites: Facebook , MySpace , iGoogle , Ning and Bebo.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

I value my friends and associate's opinions on the web, but I don't think I'll be asking them anytime soon if my butt looks good in these jeans… However, I do have access to them via direct/private messaging if I need their input.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Online retailer Newegg isn’t afraid and proudly displays its Facebook reviews for all to see. Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# i feel like many of them had 5x the amount of friends on myspace than they do on facebook. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

And it gets to something a lot of retailers struggle with — how do I make remarkable content when I'm just reselling someone else's stuff. And while not every retailer is quite as niche as ThinkGeek, *every* retailer can and should add their own spin on the products they sell. Obviously, ThinkGeek has personality.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 10, 2023

When Janet was in sixth grade, she was inspired by Ashley Quall – the 14-year-old who created her website that offered HTML tutorials and Myspace layouts. It got to the point where the 19-year-old was slacking on school and working 90 hours a week in retail. ” And that was just the beginning. ” Janet said.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

years because of Twitter I have been able to turn my business form mostly wholesale to mostly retail. years because of Twitter I have been able to turn my business form mostly wholesale to mostly retail. I will tell you in the past 1.5 Half the work for twice the pay. link] Ellen Cagnassola Jay This is great reassuring info.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

Having long ago passed MySpace as the most popular social network, Facebook recently replaced Google as the most-visited website in the U.S. It’s hard to overstate the impact of Facebook. It started 2010 with roughly 350 million users and is now on its way to 600 million.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 3, 2012

or MySpace, you may get to a certain point, but that guarantees nothing. It showed graphically how big Amazon is and how it had bigger GDP than some countries that you’ve actually heard of, and it does more in retail sales than Wal-Mart and all these other big companies combined. In other words, if you are AOL or Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 3, 2012

or MySpace, you may get to a certain point, but that guarantees nothing. It showed graphically how big Amazon is and how it had bigger GDP than some countries that you’ve actually heard of, and it does more in retail sales than Wal-Mart and all these other big companies combined. In other words, if you are AOL or Yahoo!

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 4, 2009

If you’re an online retailer, then offering deals like $29 airfare deals or something more incredible will bring the traffic. Let the image show up on someone’s MySpace page but they haven’t imported it into MySpace, the image is pulled from your server every time it loads.). We love to get a great deal online.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

Last, I see the utility of KPI for retail/transactional situations but how do we assess the other big concerns – brand awareness and engagement? Now the question becomes what does these metrics diagnose? It seems, in the case of Facebook, the proliferation of the Like button makes these numbers EVEN less diagnostic. What do you think?

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 28, 2010

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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