ComScore posted their latest Media Matrix ratings for last month and the popular social site, Facebook, showed a decline in unique visitors in December…about 14 million unique visitors behind Yahoo and down a total of eight million from the month before.
You may have heard of the latest social media must have. It is called Pinterest and it describes itself as an online “pinboard” to organize and share things you love, need, want, or just plain like looking at.
Time for another TTP Staff Spotlight. You’ve already met our first employee ever, now meet our Creative Director, Mike Burgess. Mike leads the creative team when it comes to our website development area. He’s the guy to go for all things … website (or hockey.) Get to know Mike a little big better with this week’s Turn The Page Staff Spotlight.
Diet Coke, Nike, Apple, Toyota and other big brands are jumping onto and engaging their audiences with Facebook and Google+. They are holding contests, having discussions in the G+ hangouts (the Muppet movie promotion was especially fun) and really using their social media platforms to increase brand awareness and ultimately make money.
Did you catch that? That was the web and if you already did not know, it is fast. And getting much faster these days as more and more users come online and search engines up the speed on our searching. Think Quarterly: The Speed Issue has some astounding stats to share. In the time it took to read the first page of the report, about 382 Android phones were activated, over a quarter of a million words were blogged on Blogger and two days worth of videos were uploaded on YouTube.
Entrepreneur Paul Allen recently predicted 400 Million Google + users by the end of this year, 2012. This is an astounding estimate considering the six-month old site had roughly 60M users as of December and if this proves true it would equal half the 800M users Facebook claims.
SEO is really no more, be gone and rest in peace. This passing though is more that of the caterpillar giving way to the butterfly. Since its beginning SEO never gave credence to social. SEO and SMO were two separate camps.
I will admit it - I watched the royal wedding last spring. Except I am not exactly an early bird so rather than waking up at 4am or something like that, I DVRed it and had a watch party the following evening. I was so caught up in the magic of a new princess, much less a commoner. Kate had many similarities to Will’s mom, and everything was so pretty … yeah I totally gushed over it.
Consumers visit business websites because they have a problem, a question, a need of some kind and they hope you can help them. So your content needs to be accessible, understandable and useful or they’ll just boogie. If you deliver high-quality, relevant and valuable information to prospects and customers you can drive profitable consumer action.
With six undergraduate schools on her transcript and a nickname like “dfo” (now” dbo” since she’s recently married) Dana Bowman is Turn The Page‘s peppy, spirited Senior Graphic Designer/Front-End Programmer. As our first employee since way back in the way, Dana brings her expertise and cheerfulness to each Turn The Page client. You may know […]
