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Which came first: the Social or the Egg?
It’s easy to put our heads down and focus on a goal. Need more Followers! Need more Likes! Need more traffic! Maybe we should think of it like an ecosystem. All of our online properties rely in part on all the rest of our online properties.
Case in point, some accidental research from Yoast, the folks who built the WordPress SEO plugin (arguably the best SEO plugin for the playform.) “Is Social the new Google?” they contend that traffic from social networks could bemore valuable than stright ahead search traffic. Check it out.
Auto Repair, Women and Social Media
Those are three things you wouldn’t normally associate with each other. Auto repair and women are like oil and water. How many people have heard horror stories about someone’s mom or sister getting ripped off by a less than honest shop?
But Victory Auto Service and Glass is using social media successfully to get and keep female customers. Check out this post from Social Media Examiner.
Wittle Bitty Tweeters
“Media Elites Are Creating Twitter Accounts for Their Babies” WHAT?!
New York magazine posted this story yesterday. I have to think this fad will go by the wayside. In a short time baby Twitter accounts will be kidnap prevention child ID photo. That photo you have taken of your child when they’re 3 years old but now they’re 8, their hair is cut and they look nothing like that older photo.
This quote from the Comments sections sums it up:
“You realize today’s technology is going to be sooo 8-track by the time those kids are savvy enough to care .”