Stay On Top Of Social Media With Topsy

With social networks driving traffic the way they do and the sheer amount of content that is being linked to and shared through Twitter and Facebook on a daily basis, the ability to search those networks in real-time is valuable. Google indexes and crawls fast, but it can’t keep up with the daily deluge of…

Social Media Vocabulary: 5 Tools For Tracking Social Media Sentiment

This week, social media vocabulary is taking a look at some tools that will help you take stock of your sentiment on your social networks. Are your tweets mostly positive? Mostly negative? These will look at Twitter so if you come across some others that focus on Facebook or others, let us know! Twendz: Twendz…

NCAA March Madness Online Brackets

It’s the best time of year again for college basketball fans and this is your source for NCAA March Madness Online Brackets.  First, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to the Long Beach State Men’s Basketball Team for beating UC Santa Barbara 77-64 on Saturday night, winning the Big West Conference championship game and…

Is Pinterest The Next Social Commerce Game Changer? #Infographic

Thanks again to our friends at Column Five Media for this great infographic on Pinterest. I know we’ve been talking about it a lot recently, but it deserves it. In fact, just yesterday we learned that Pinterest is actually driving more referral traffic than Twitter. Think about that for a second! That is crazy! We…

5 Twitter Tools With Unique Features

The latest and the greatest change everyday. Here are a few of our favorites to try out! The Archivist: While not a truly complete Twitter archive, The Archivist allows you to look up any search term and view its history on Twitter. You can see top users of the term, how much it’s been tweeted,…

5 Reasons Your Website Isn’t Converting Visitors In To Clients

The purpose of your website is to generate new leads so you can convert them into paying customers or clients.  If your website isn’t flipping prospects, it’s not doing its job and you’re likely wasting a lot of quality traffic.  Here are the top 5 reasons websites don’t convert: Not Having an Opt-In Box to…

Getting Social with NBA All-Star Weekend

As social media has evolved so has the NBA and All-Star weekend has become a huge social event.  Last year, the NBA had 1 million fans in China following them on social media. This year they have 41 million thanks to Jeremy Lin.  They also have 200 million fans globally through Twitter and 14 international…