When it comes to social sales, Pinterest is king and other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the subjects.
Or as this infographic says, “Pinterest rules over Facebook and Twitter when it comes to purchase value.”
On average, Pinterest users spend $140 to $180 per order. Compare that to $80 for Facebook users per order and $60 for Twitter users.
The figure goes even higher when it’s the season leading up to Easter.
According to the infographic, Pinterest users spend an …

Email marketing offers an affordable, direct and effective way to market your product or services especially once your business has built its targeted subscriber list.
However, there are times when marketers see that there seems to be a sudden uptick of people unsubscribing from their list.
Why do email subscribers unsubscribe? How can you stop people from unsubscribing from your email list and stop viewing your marketing material?
According to this infographic, one of the reasons people …

One of the sure ways to boost engagement and likes on Facebook Pages is to create a contest and use a customized Facebook contest app.
However, not every business owner who has used this strategy can say that they did it right.
One of the biggest problem business owners have to tackle when using a Facebook contest app is the complexity of Facebook’s rules. Another is the process of creation of an app that fulfills the uses business owners want it to have.
For business owners who are not …

The lead manager for the Facebook Home project has left the world’s largest social network.
According to Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bubba Murarka has joined their firm as General Partner and Managing Director.
The development comes after Charles Jolley, another key Facebook Home project member, was reported to have left Facebook and joined Battery Ventures.
Facebook Home is Facebook’s “experience” for Android phones, currently the world’s most popular mobile operating platform.

Murarka …

After only a month from being released, the Facebook phone – otherwise known as the HTC First – can now be had for only 99 cents on AT&T.
That is a massive drop from its $99.99 initial cash out offering and may be an indication how well the smartphone is selling, various mobile technology industry observers note.
AT&T even makes matters look worse for the HTC First as it displays a 99.27 percent discount from the original price of $350.99 minus a gargantuan discount of $350.
This …

Facebook may be in the advanced stages of courting Waze for a possible acquisition worth $1 billion, various reports reveal.
According to Israeli publication Calcalist, the crowdsourced traffic and navigation application and the world’s largest social network have already signed a term sheet.
This signifies that Waze and Facebook are in the final stages of negotiations.
The development follows reports that Apple was in talks with the Israeli company for an acquisition worth $400 …

For the site owners out there who want to better understand Google Analytics in order to see how visitors are engaging with their sites, this infographic will prove priceless.
Created by Jeff Sauer at Jeffalytics, the thorough Google Analytics Periodic Table covers UA (Accounts – all that is Google Analytics is contained in an account) to Wt (Webmaster Tools – Search Query Data and landing pages).
“Early this year I began working on a project to categorize and visually display all of the …

If a person or an organization wanted to spread hate and terror through the use of social media, Twitter should be on top of their list.
Twitter is the best social network to promote hate and terror, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in an annual report presented on Capitol Hill by the organization on Tuesday.
The global Jewish human rights that tackle anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism in the report gauged how social networks monitored hate and terror groups using their services.

“Twitter is …

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has spoken up against blocking social media.
Aptly using a social network to voice his opposition to blocking social media, the prince wrote on his Twitter account on Monday about censorship of social media is a “losing war”.
“Dear Saudi Telecommunication Authority, social media is a tool for the people to make the government hear their voices,” the prince posted through Twitter, CNN reports.
“Just thinking of blocking them is a losing war, and a way to …

Authorities in Michigan have revealed that a woman from Comstock Park used Facebook to harass herself in an effort to frame up her former boyfriend.
According to MLive.com, 52-year-old Cheryl Nelson has admitted to using fake Facebook accounts which featured the personal information of her former boyfriend Kevin Haarsma to make it appear that the man’s new girlfriend was threatening her.
Nelson is facing charges of false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message, the publication …