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Social Media is a Terrible Ecommerce Tactic – or is it?

Convince & Convert

Forrester Research suggests that word of mouth is part of 80% of all purchase funnels. At least some of this word of mouth is occurring via social media, with brand or product mentions spawning searches and/or direct URL entries that are included in this data. Several recommendations surfaced for 1800Contacts.com.

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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

But with Facebook becoming the place you just have to be for businesses of all sizes, a little marketing know-how comes in handy. When we look at what platforms our small business customers are using for social media marketing, 94% of them are on Facebook,” Schmulen said. That’s the herd mentality at work. Tip #3: Keep it simple.

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11 tips and tools to jump-start your SEO

Biznology

54% of people come to a website from a search engine (source: Forrester ). The best places to put keywords are in the: URL , Title Tag , Meta Description , Headers and Subheader, Page content, Anchor text and Alt text. What do the numbers tell us about the importance of SEO?

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

Summit in San Francisco and hear from some of the business leaders of the new Internet, including the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Forrester Research now predicts that smart phones will be the dominant Internet access device in the US within three years. Check out the wall posts on Facebook. and Twitter.

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8 Key Mobile Marketing Trends

Hubspot

According to Forrester, mobile advertising in the U.S. It will be pivotal to optimize your URL for mobile access, and to continually optimize your mobile site for speed, image rendering, and accessibility. Trend 1 - Mobile Advertising Spend is on the Rise. By 2014, it has been projected that the U.S.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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How to Prove Your Social Media Impact

Convince & Convert

Many believe it is a fool’s errand to try to quantitatively determine the business value of a Facebook like or a tweet. As Nate Elliott, VP and Principal Analyst of Forrester said , “Engagement is not a useful social marketing success metric.”. AddThis even allows you to add URL fragments directly into the URL address bar.