Pinterest is a social network that describes itself as an on-line bulletin board, complete with push pins. Basically each user ”pins” the things they like, just as if they were pasting a magazine photo in a scrapbook or hanging it on a cork board. Pinterest is organized by categories including gifts (by price), home décor, apparel, products, weddings and much more. The social part of Pinterest comes into play as users can follow each other and check out what other users are pinning.
Unlike other bookmarking or sharing network, like Digg, or Stumbleupon, Pinterest is photo driven. If you take a look a Pinterest you will see that it is full of pictures of products and ideas people love. As a business owner wouldn’t you like that to be photos of your products and ideas?
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If you are active on Twitter you have probably seen hash tags … but are you using them? Hash tags are a keyword or keyword phrase that is preceded by the pound sign. For example, #socialmedia or #tipoftheday. Hash tags are used to organize and share your tweets with other Twitter users. Many users use tools to search hash tags they are interested in and follow these streams. Your objective is to get your tweets in these popular streams.
Well, it is almost Super Bowl Sunday and many people are just as excited to watch the commercials aired, as they are the actual game. Super Bowl ads are probably outside your marketing budget since, the estimated price for a 30 second spot, that reaches about 11 million viewers, is $3.5 million.
