Every once in a while you will see something that really inspires you or just hits on something so near and dear you can’t help but keep thinking about it. Sometimes it brings on goosebumps, sometimes the feeling that you’re right where you should be, sometimes it’s a smile you can’t keep in. The feeling…
In recent years Facebook has become the king of spreading content, being responsible for about 45% of the spread of content across the web. The second in command may surprise you, though. That’s right, remember that hot new thing of the nineties? The trendy, movie inducing, yahoo-making, ‘instant sharing’, thing that used to be the…
One of the biggest mistakes you can make with social media is not tracking your efforts. Though about 80% of companies surveyed said they do social, only 40% of those said they tracked their efforts. We’ve talked about tools for doing this before, but Flowtown has another great infographic here about the state of ‘Social…
Well, it’s already Labor Day again if you can believe that and we figured a lot of you might be out there shopping today. If you are, check out Shopkick and then be sure to go crazy with your smartphones on barcodes and check-ins. Get those deals people! Anyway, The Minority Report-like future of advertisement we can all imagine…
This is one of the best social media infographics we have ever had on Salty Waffle. Take a look at the growth rate of users of social media, break down of individual networks, and how companies have shifted to start using blogging and social media sites in their marketing efforts. 86% of people 18-29 years…
A while back we wrote about how Bing and Google were making the way people share information on the social web an important part of search rankings and page results. You can’t have great SEO without a good social strategy. Social is SEO and SEO is social. This is why it is so important to…
Who said Twitter doesn’t make any money? Take a look at today’s infographic on how company’s are using Twitter to help with investor relations! What do you think about that? Would you use Twitter to stay closer with your own investors? Is that professional?
“Social Media makes marketing fun again!” exclaimed Kelly Batke, (the brunette) and Communications Manager at Faronics Vancouver, BC. Wow Kelly, we can’t agree more! Take a Salty Waffle social media class and learn how you can make marketing fun too!
Most people browse many of the same sites every day and I’m no different. I like finding new sites, but for work there are a number that I must look at every day for recording Salty Waffle’s analytics. Yesterday I thought, there must be a way for opening up all those sites with one click….
You have probably heard of Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Habits, but did you know there are also 7 Highly Effective Habits for Facebook Success? PsyBlog has a great post that cites different social media studies to determine how to make yourself into the best (or best looking) Facebooker you can…