Pinterest Money Making Tactics Revealed A report by social media blog LLSocial brought attention to the fact that Pinterest is using a service called Skimlinks to add affiliate links to products, by adjusting and tracking the links attached to user-generated pins. The site allows users to collect and share things they like on the Internet [...]
In many ways, social media has changed the face of business, and more importantly, how businesses connect with their customers. By entering its customers’ social circles, businesses can hope to become a trusted brand for goods and services, and thus harnessing the power of social selling. But it’s not as easy as it sounds, and [...]
Following the negativity surrounding McDonald’s recent hashtag campaign, other worldwide brands must surely be nervous to follow in the fast food giants footsteps and introduce hashtag campaign’s into their social media activity. Last week McDonald’s launched a new marketing initiative on Twitter. The brand encouraged Twitter users to send McDonalds related tweets with the hashtags [...]
Google Announces Privacy Changes Google made some changes to its privacy policies announced on the 24th. It let users know it will be combining data from all of its services, from search to email to photos. This will give Google a much more detailed picture of its users, allowing it to deliver more relevant services, [...]
For a social networking site which is still invite-only, Pinterest has managed to gain over 6 million monthly users to date, and receives millions of hits weekly. It’s been described as one of the hottest niche social networks available today, and is typically a place for bloggers and crafters to create virtual ‘mood boards’ and [...]
