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National Public Radio has been wondering : What makes a story tick on Facebook? The company examined its geotargeted stories throughout July, August, and September, and found that nine types of stories in particular tended to do rather well on Facebook: place explainers, crowd pleasures, curiosity stimulators, news explainers, major breaking news, feel-good smilers, topical buzzers, provocative controversies, and awe-inspiring visuals.
What Makes A Story Successful On Facebook?
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. According to market research firm First Research , there are about 5,000 art dealers and galleries in the U.S. with combined annual revenue of about $6 billion, and Art Market Monitor estimates the size of the overall global art market to be around $15 billion annually.
7 Social Media Marketing Tips for Artists and Galleries
Social Media for Photographers: Facebook | Colby Brown Photography
When it comes to being a photographer, there is no shortage of online networks waiting for you to share your images, interact with others and potentially grow your business. This article is part of a larger series of posts aimed at providing information and awareness for individuals looking to leverage social media and social networks in pursuit of their passion for photography.
17 Social Media Cheat Sheets
These days, small businesses use a variety of social media sites in their marketing efforts.
Google+ Facts and Figures [infographic]
Google + Facts and Figures infographic Google + (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a social networking and identity service, operated by Google Inc. The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invitation-only “field testing” phase.Social media has overtaken television as the favourite hobby of 16-24 year-olds, according to a new UK study by Click Consult. This age group talks to friends more through social media than on the phone; and on average spends almost three hours a day using social media, regardless of where they are.
Social media outranks TV as UK's favourite pastime
Facebook is one the fastest growing social media network and its users are increasing by thousands every day. Due to its vast base of users, it takes no effort to acknowledge its influence and any company will jump on the bandwagon to utilize Facebook because it allows them to boost their brands or products also in the same time engage with possible clients. It is convenient for a company to create a Facebook page, publish their profile and products however, setting up a Facebook page that receive many "likes" and a huge fan base is never an easy task.
10 Tips & Tricks For Your Business's Facebook Fan Page
PR Newswire recently took a look at how press releases sent on the wire perform in terms of number of views. The stats are quite revealing: Need I say more?
Use Multimedia to Tell Stories
Blogging is one of the best ways to establish your brand and company reputation with existing and potential customers.
Small Business Guide to Blogging | Merc Strategy
If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest in the world, just behind India.
Facebook Advertising: 10Steps to Run a Great Facebook Campaign | Merc Strategy
Comprehensive Collection of Pinterest Tools for your Campaign | Merc Strategy
As Pinterest continues its grow its user base, users are finding new ways to curate and access interesting content. You can read our earlier post that provides a complete guide to Pinterest to get started with this platform. As the platform is maturing, new tools are sprouting up to make your Pinterest experience great and do more with your Pinterest campaigns.Measuring social media is one of the areas of online marketing that is still frequently discussed and we still haven’t found that magic number yet! But there are lots of free tools that can help to monitor and track your social media activity to ensure it’s working for you or you’re reaching your targets. The list presented below is intended as a guide, I don’t recommend you use them all at once, but find the ones that fit best for you and make sure you continually measure and record results, to see how your social media activity is performing overall. Facebook Analytics Starting with my favourite free social measurement tool – Facebook Insights. Facebook provide you with a comprehensive analytics suite for pages that allows you to get a full insight into your fans and how they’re interacting on the page.
The best free social media tracking tools you should know about
Just a few weeks ago we were reading about how Pinterest monthly visitor growth was slowing down. Just some few weeks ago, we shared an article about How Pinterest Can Give Instant Growth to Your Brand and today we are going to share another article on Pinterest. Many people believe that Pinterest is the fastest growing social networking website after Facebook, but the growth of this particular site is limited to the people.
How Pinterest Drive More Online Sales Than Other Network [Infographic]
Our 7 Tenets of Future Storyworlds
At the European Broadcast Union (EBU) TV Summit in Copenhagen last week, Transmedia Storyteller Ltd founder and CEO, Robert Pratten, presented our vision for future storyworlds: PERVASIVE – Available on any device, anywhere and at any time. Blurs real world and fictional world.blog writing wisdom
Pinterest, The Fancy and the Photo Funnel