Have you seen the new shiny object on Pinterest yet?  It’s affiliate spam pinned as pictures with links to questionable images.   There is software you can purchase to do the work for you if [...]]]> Beware of Shiny Objects!

Especially on Pinterest – where you’ll find more junk and time wasting spam coming from lame marketers.

Have you seen the new shiny object on Pinterest yet?  It’s affiliate spam pinned as pictures with links to questionable images.   There is software you can purchase to do the work for you if your really lazy.

I posted a couple of weeks ago that I didn’t think Pinterest would last too long as the greatest marketing tool.   To show you what I mean watch the video below to see how a good idea is quickly being ruined by stupid marketers.

Pinterest is only a  spec on the marketing map - just a single tool that you should be using to build your small business.  See how easy it is to abuse a good idea.  Let me knwo what you think.

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Google’s share of clicks from mobile devices increasing by 132 percent between January and December of last year and a “State of Mobile Search Advertising in the US” report found that ad budgets increased at an even faster rate, with advertisers [...]]]> New stats from Marin Software paint an interesting picture for Mobile Social Media Marketers..

Google’s share of clicks from mobile devices increasing by 132 percent between January and December of last year and a “State of Mobile Search Advertising in the US” report found that ad budgets increased at an even faster rate, with advertisers increasing their share of search budget on mobile devices from 3.4 percent to 8.7 percent during the year, a jump of 156 percent.

What was the reason for all the excitement?

. the dramatic increase in smartphone and tablet penetration.

The new prediction is that “25 percent of all paid search clicks will come from mobile – that is a staggering number,” according to Marin.

Think about that for a second as you go about your regular marketing activities.. One quarter of all your search traffic will be coming from a mobile device like a smartphone or tablet!

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The site is my very first blog! I dare you to take a look at the date of the first post at http://virtualselling.blogspot.ca/

Virtualselling.com is a domain I purchased in 1996, yes you read that correctly its 16 years old. What was hard [...]]]> I’m going to share a secret web site with you.

The site is my very first blog! I dare you to take a look at the date of the first post at http://virtualselling.blogspot.ca/

Virtualselling.com is a domain I purchased in 1996, yes you read that correctly its 16 years old. What was hard about web sites back then was creating and editing them! You had to know HTML or pay a designer to create sites for you.

A bit later expensive and hard to use WYSIWYG web site editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver were popular but it was still hard to create simple web site. that is until 2001. That year a funny little startup called blogspot came along and made it easy for ANYONE to publish their stuff on the internet. And they helped me produce my first blog.

Since then I create a hundreds of web sites using the blogging ideas, tactics and strategies I discovered, tested and tweaked with Blogging http://www.bloggingsecrets.com/ .

I’d be surprised if you actually heard of blogspot. If I remember correctly they went on to become “Blogger” and were later purchased by Google. I learned a ton of Blogging Secrets http://www.bloggingsecrets.com/ and more importantly was introduced to the wonderful WordPress Software that gave small business owners the ability to Host their own blogs on their own domain. the rest they say is history.

Is Blogging important?

With all the social network and mobile marketing http://www.mysmallbizismobile.com/ noise you’d think that WordPress and Blogging is no longer important. The truth is that YOUR WORDPRESS BLOG will always be the most important part of your online business. It’s the HUB that holds everything else that comes along together. Like a wheel your WordPress Blog acts as the HUB http://www.mysmallbizmap.com/ and everything else you do are spokes connecting you to your contacts, customers, and prospects.

So when is the best time to start blogging?

Now and if you are already blogging make sure that everything you do is reflected on you Blog.

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Take a look at some recent stats:

Nielsen reports that about 70% of children (12 and younger) use tablets on a regular basis, where parents already own them. This is an increase of 10% ownership of tablets from mid-December 2011 to 19% in early January 2012 (Pew Internet [...]]]> Teens may text. but Kids are Swiping.

Take a look at some recent stats:

Nielsen reports that about 70% of children (12 and younger) use tablets on a regular basis, where parents already own them. This is an increase of 10% ownership of tablets from mid-December 2011 to 19% in early January 2012 (Pew Internet and American Life Project) and surely will increase over the next few years.

Over 75% of these children use them to play downloaded games but they are also used often for educational purposes (57%), use for entertainment while travelling (55%), watching television and programs (43%), while 41% of parents give them to their kids to keep them occupied at events and restaurants.

What’s this mean for small business? As the consumption of digital content shifts from PC to tablet think about how you can take advantage of mobile platforms.

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Keyword and trend research!

With the Windows Phone WP7 live tiles I’ve added live instantly updated keyword and market searches that are always up to date.  More importantly each keyword phrase I’m tracking shows the relevance, [...]]]> “Social Mints” is one of thousands of great apps for Windows Phone. I’m a big fan and here’s why…

Keyword and trend research!

With the Windows Phone WP7 live tiles I’ve added live instantly updated keyword and market searches that are always up to date.  More importantly each keyword phrase I’m tracking shows the relevance, strength, passion and live trends across the major social media networks.

Social Mints is a great tool for finding targeted keywords while you are on your phone.

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The latest example of overwhelming social media hype has to be for Pinterest. I give it another 30 to 60 days. Then everyone will be tired of it. So what if you can pin some photos up.

The internet marketing crowd is quickly ruining a good social idea. How do I know?

Why only 7 minutes?

Because that’s all it took to get a MySmallBizU phone app created. You can quickly do the same here:

http://www.theappbuilder.com/ It’s a free service, one that make it easy for non-techies to get started with Mobile [...]]]> Here’s a neat web site I played around with today for about 7 minutes….

Why only 7 minutes?

Because that’s all it took to get a MySmallBizU phone app created. You can quickly do the same here:

http://www.theappbuilder.com/ It’s a free service, one that make it easy for non-techies to get started with Mobile Marketing APPS. Go create your app, it’s easy!

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When it comes to the social conversation it might be according to Apple’s Siri founder who was recently quoted

“this should open up a new opportunity for advertisers. In comparison, Downing says Google is “tone-deaf to the conversation” if there’s not “text on the page.”

This brings up some interesting [...]]]> Is Google tone deaf?

When it comes to the social conversation it might be according to Apple’s Siri founder who was recently quoted

“this should open up a new opportunity for advertisers. In comparison, Downing says Google is “tone-deaf to the conversation” if there’s not “text on the page.”

This brings up some interesting opportunities for entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners. Is natural language and conversation now more important than traditional written content? Perhaps search results and SEO will move to conversation based metrics opposed to traditional words on the page.

Interesting ideas for sure as we all become a more mobile and social.

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