Where do you work best? What environment helps you be the most creative? A recent study says working in coffee shops and other moderately noisy environments can assist your brian in coming up with more creative and abstract ideas. Read more: Why Ditching The Office Could Help You Be More Creative | Co.Exist: World changing ideas [...]
Pinterest is a new visual book marketing social network that can drive traffic to your website and sales to your business. What is Pinterest? Pinterest, is an online bulletin board for your favorite images, launched in 2010 and is already experiencing wild growth. The site registered more than 7 million unique visitors in December, up from 1.6 [...]
Here’s a potentially good idea for hospitality businesses with using QR codes. If you’re in the restaurant / bar business this may be a way to create some real service value for your customers. Muncheez is a local pizza restaurant with over 50 different kinds of beer to choose from. That’s a lot of choices. If [...]
For your business to succeed, you must focus on how you can help your customers succeed. via 30 Social Media Predictions for 2012 From the Pros | Social Media Examiner. Check out this list of 30 social media predictions for 2102. My take away is to focus on creating outstanding quality content and get busy [...]
via youtube.com Gary Vaynerchuk talks about not buying into buzz words like “social media”. Their is more to promoting your business than using “social media”. Think bigger in 2012 and discover how you can integrate your communications and the growing internet audience. Posted via email from Mandala Life Media
The Amish don’t use computers but their example of a simple lifestyle can be applied to effective website design. Simplicity in a website can make your information extremely functional and helpful to your customers. Look at how you can do more with less when telling your story on your website. Copyblogger has a great post [...]
In a world of surfers, all you can do is work to make the best wave you can. The real revolution is that you get to make waves, not just ride them. via sethgodin.typepad.com What waves are you making? Posted via email from Mandala Life Media
The golden rule for today’s hyper competitive and information-rich markets is this: The only way you can increase the value of your brand is by increasing the value of your offering. The 4 P’s of marketing have shifted. Product, or your offering, is the key in today’s hyper connected world. Read more about the shifting [...]
When it comes to marketing strategies, content marketing has just been crowned king, far surpassing search engine marketing, public relations and even print, television and radio advertising as the preferred marketing tool for today’s business-to-business entrepreneur. Late this summer, HiveFire, a Cambridge, Mass.-based internet marketing software solutions company, surveyed nearly 400 marketing professionals about the [...]
Social media marketers feel that having a presence on social sites is more important than advertising there, but there are still challenges related to keeping a community running online. In July 2011, Microsoft Advertising and Advertiser Perceptions surveyed social media marketers in six countries around the world and found that 74% of them thought it [...]
