From John Hadley and The Blog Zone A colleague of mine brought this Slideshare video to my attention and I enjoyed it so much that I’d like to share it with all of you. It really explains the power of social media and how important it is to become a part of this new and exciting way of growing your...

With holiday shopping in full swing, social shopping is already making a big impact. Data from Hitwise shows that downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both Facebook and Twitter increased 36% and 15% respectively on Thanksgiving from the previous day. Downstream traffic to retailers grew again...

Consider this: if Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth largest in the world by population, ahead of both Japan and Russia.  When I talk to people about using social media to market their business, I usually get one of two responses. Either they love using Facebook and Twitter or they really...