Blog Posts To Read Week of December 2, 2010

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do!

Everybody’s Doing It: How Social Media is Being Used for Business
This post includes a great infographic on Social Media and how it is being used by marketers as an effective tool for brand awareness. One thing is for sure, Social Media is here to stay!

Top 15 National Retailers by Twitter Followers
Interesting post that really kind of speaks volumes about the demographics of twitter followers. Quite an interesting find that opens your eyes to what demographic is on twitter, but could that also lend itself to the fact that celebrities are consistently tweeting, and they are the majority of high end retail buyers? Food for thought.

How Digital Marketing Is Like Poker
This post likens digital marketing to the game of poker, and I must agree there are similarities.

This Month In Marketing – Movember
This post talks about the clever marketing that has gone behind the efforts to draw attention to prostate cancer. “Movember” as it’s called brings the idea of growing mustache’s for charity into the limelight, they have been very successful.

How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs in Your Industry
To market effectively, you have to incorporate a number of different efforts, one being blog/forum commenting. This post gives great ideas on how to find niche blogs and forums that would be beneficial to your marketing efforts.

Go Ahead, Push that Restaurant’s Social Media Buttons
In a time where it seems everyone is involved in Social Media, it is important for restaurants to make sure they have a presence there as well. If an establishment has a social media button, it is more likely to gain more visibility than one that does not. So, restaurant owners be aware, jump on the social media bandwagon and engage!!!

Feed The Network
In this post the importance of “feeding your network” of supporters who feed you. Meaning, for those that support you, you should do the same and support them, it’s a give and take that is mutually beneficial.

Introducing Your Friends, Fans and Followers
Great post about the importance of engaging in social media. Social media is a long term process that requires effort, engaging daily and creating valuable connections will pay off in the end.

Which Flavor of Social Commerce Is Right For You?
This post talks about the addition of e-commerce to social networking sites, and the thoughts on whether it would really work. It hasn’t had much success yet, but who knows what the future will bring.

These were the our favorite blog posts this week. Check back next week for more!