Social Bookmarking Tips and Tricks...

Today I got an interesting email from the owner of Greenlinepaper.com, Steve Baker.    His question was “Sue, our website now has a share button for MySpace, Twitter, Digg, etc.  on the product pages.  Is there anything that you can recommend that we do to “circulate” things?”  And I thought maybe some of you have the same questions….so I decided to post about this subject. First of all, social...

A Good Internet Marketing Investment for the Rest ...

Add a video to your emails (something that wasn’t possible two years ago) and it will improve click-through rates by 2-3 times, according to a recent Forrester report. The down side of this is that email providers sometimes blocks executable files, including flash video and embedded video scripts, to protect against viruses. One easy solution is to upload the video to YouTube.com or put it on your blog or website,...

Social Bookmarking Submission URLs...

A recent project I worked on required that I implement 8-10 “social bookmarking” links. You know the cryptic little links or icons you see on many sites that say “share this on [random site here]?” Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Myspace, etc. Nowadays they’re on everyone’s blog and they’re making their way onto “normal” web sites as well. For good reason too because they’re...

Should We All Start Twittering?...

I admit that at first I didn’t see the point in Twitter.  I could see how blogging was good for marketing, but micro blogging?  Twitter is a social network that allows you to post brief 140 character text messages to all your followers who are reading your “tweets”.  For the longest time, I’ve watched Twitter from the sidelines, still marveling that people care enough to read about other’s daily activities. ...