Let me guess, you heard about Pinterest. Or more like, you can’t spend 15 minutes online without hearing about it…
And now you’re thinking, “should I jump on the wagon too?” or “another social network to keep up with?” and on top of that, everybody is talking about using it for marketing and getting tons of traffic and, you just don’t see it.
Alright, I hear you. I’ll give you everything you need to know about Pinterest and a bunch of resources so you can decide if you or your business are ready to join the hottest trend online.
Let’s start with what it is…
Pinterest is another way of collecting and organizing stuff (images) you find online. Think visual bookmarking, publicly and with a social network in it. Some see it as a vision board, some as a catalog and others as a great way to promote your products or generate traffic to your site/blog.
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A lot is speculated every day about the future of Google+, one of the main topics is how the social network will affect search.
So far we are all just talking about the great potential and what we want it to become while Google doesn’t say much.
But Google decided to bring out the big guns today with the announcement of “Search, plus Your World”. This is basically the integration of Google+ into search results and it represents one more big step into the world of personalized search, or social search.
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This is a guestpost by Srinivas Rao from The Skool of Life.
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on Google Plus and I’m finding that the quality of conversation with content creators is significantly higher there.
So I decided to put that theory to the test and ask some bloggers to share their best tips to on using Google Plus.
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This is a guest post by Leo Widrich from BufferApp.
“Using 3rd party Apps to post to Facebook decreases engagement by up to 70%.” This was one of the striking headlines a few weeks back that a study found.
And it was very understandable I believe. Facebook would not only collapse posts from the same App, but also decrease their visibility considerably. Another big issue was that a lot of “FB posts” from 3rd party apps actually looked just like Tweets.
What I found is that this can easily turn off users from engaging with the content.
Yet, things changed dramatically in the past few weeks. As Mark Zuckerberg announced in a recent statement, Facebook doesn’t care about getting more users. They want to be a platform with a healthy app eco-system.
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This is a guestpost by Eugene Farber from Reality Burst.
Few tools, platforms or communities have gotten as much coverage (and sometimes criticism) in the blogosphere of late as Triberr has. The platform/community has grown rapidly. And when you get so many people on each side of the fence, you know you’re doing something right.
So what did Dino Dogan, the marketing brains behind Triberr, do to assure its success? Here are nine marketing lessons I pulled out of Triberr’s rise:
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This is a guest post by Srini Rao from The Skool of Life
If you know anything about me you know that I have a tendency to look for people with interesting stories. I think social media fame is ridiculous and I could care less how many followers you have on twitter. I never even check how many followers I have on twitter. It’s no secret that I believe metrics and measurements limit your potential.
I believe there’s a tremendous power in reaching out to people because you have a genuine interest in them. The problem is we approach too many things with a “what am I going to gain from this mind set?” What I’ve realized that every single conversation you have with a person whether it be via tweets, emails, facebook comments or anything else creates new possibilities and opportunities in your life.
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This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock from Prolific Living
How relevant is your network to your dreams and your vision? Are you building an ideal network that fiercely supports your pursuits and passions?
Location, my dear friends, does not only apply to buying the right house. Listen up because it matters a great deal where you build your network and with which communities you surround yourself.
You grow and evolve as human beings throughout your life. Your likes and interests change over time and it’s only natural that the people who surround you mold into that change. Your human network is a web of people in your world with whom you enjoy to work and play – there is no work without play in my world and by the same token, playing all day with no work leaves me wishing for more so for argument’s sake, let’s say you work and play with your network.
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This is a guest post by Zac Grace of 
