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wprdr: 21 Awesome Social Media Facts, Figures and Statistics for 2013



What are 2 key factors driving the social web in 2013? According to a Global Web Index study it is: Mobile — with the number of people accessing the internet via a mobile phone increasing by 60.3% to 818.4 million in the last 2 years. Older users adoption — On Twitter the 55-64 year age [...]

WpTF: April 12, 2013



Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. You’re probably a Facebook user, like a few kajillion other folks. And maybe, like me, you’ve ended up using it as a notebook of sorts, recording your thoughts, observations, events, or whatevers in your Facebook statuses over time. Probably nothing planned. In my case, I found myself [...]

wprdr: Facebook Still Reigns Supreme With Teens, But Social Media Interest Dwindling



[I]nterest in Facebook seems to be declining heavily among teens. Though teens still dub Facebook their most important social network, Piper Jaffray reports that the numbers are down regarding how many teens see Facebook as the most important social media website.” Read full article @ TechCrunch »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of the best [...]

wprdr: How to Make Your Facebook Contests Stand Out



Facebook contests are a popular way for you to get your audience engaged and excited about your brand. More and more companies have adopted the use of Facebook contests to better track participation and engagement. Contests are a popular marketing tactic for businesses on Facebook. With so many companies using contests, even if you’ve read 9 Tips for [...]

wprdr: 9 Consumer Social Media Trends That Impact Marketers



Are you wondering how consumers are using social media? … Twitter continued to draw new users by impressive numbers. 23% of consumers surveyed joined Twitter six months before, 30% joined less than a year before and another 25% joined less than two years before. The study also showed that engagement levels among Twitter users rose from [...]

wprdr: Ribbon Makes It Easier to Buy and Sell Items on Facebook and Twitte



Ribbon, a payments service… unveiled a tool that lets sellers create a special link to a one-page checkout that can be copy and pasted directly into the Twitter news feed. Any Twitter user interested in purchasing the item can preview a description and video of it in the tweet and then click on the link [...]

wprdr: 10 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Following



Content is still king and when people share your content, your Page name travels with it. Think of new ways you can add original photos as part of your content. Maybe it’s a screenshot from a hot tip. Or maybe it’s a photo from something happening behind the scenes at your business that you ask [...]

wprdr: The Biggest Sites In Social Publishing



One way to measure how well a website is doing is by the number of pageviews it’s gotten. Another still — and the au courant metric of a website’s success — is unique visitors, because it reveals how many people are actually going there. But what if you looked at what visitors were doing with [...]

wprdr: The Startup’s Guide to Facebook Fan Pages



[Facebook] can help you attract and drive a ton of traffic to your website, create a loyal community and build a profitable brand. In other words, Facebook should be part of every startup’s marketing plan. And with the new Facebook fan pages design, you have many more options to leverage this social media platform.” Read [...]

wprdr: 10 Creative Ways to Use Instagram for Business



Instagram is a free mobile photo-sharing app with 80 million users and counting… Instagram was acquired by Facebook in April 2012, launched a redesign on iOS that includes a new “Explore” tab and is rumored to be developing a web presence (so that users can see photos online, not just on the mobile app)… Clearly, [...]

wprdr: Social media among threats to greeting card makers



Say it’s your birthday or you’ve just had a baby, maybe got engaged or bought your first house. If you’re like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sending you an e-card or clicking ‘Like’ on your Facebook wall. But how many will send a paper greeting card?” Read full article @ Yahoo! »»» [...]

wprdr: Facebook Hits One Billion Active Users



Facebook had 955 million active users in July 2012, and though gaining 45 million users is not a small task, it seems as if the world’s biggest online social network took a little bit more time than expected reaching the 1 billion milestone.” Read full article @ Mashable »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of [...]

wprdr: Lessons Learned From a Pre-launch



Although Amazon still rules the road in terms of sales (for me), I actually enjoyed the process of uploading to B&N’s Pubit and KOBO far more. For some reason KDP seems far more complicated, but maybe that’s because they just are a more sophisticated platform? Pubit & Kobo allow you to choose more categories (3 [...]

wprdr: How to Create a Facebook Business Page in 5 Simple Steps



The time has passed when Facebook was a “good idea” for businesses to try. It’s now essential to your inbound marketing strategy. Thing is, Facebook keeps changing how to set up Facebook business pages — both on the large scale with the rollout of Facebook Timeline, and on a smaller scale with new features that [...]

wprdr: Your Facebook Fans Are Hiding Your Posts At An Alarming Rate



Facebook fans are most likely to block ALL your page stories when they take a negative feedback action, 60 times more likely than unfanning your page. Which means that just because your brand has a lot of fans doesn’t mean all those fans are seeing the page content. Some fans may have just hidden the [...]

wprdr: The Top 10 Social Networks for Creative People



Like the people in the famous scene from the Life of Brian, we creative types love to think of ourselves as individuals, but in reality we’re part of a crowd. Or as Mark Earls or Seth Godin would have it, a Herd or a Tribe. Feel free to ignore that fact if you’re happy to [...]

Wordpreneur Reader



Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Are Books Doomed? The Rise of E-Reading [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable) — “The tactile pleasure of worn pages between your fingers is hard to replace. But when it comes to encouraging people [...]

Wordpreneur Reader 09.18.2012



Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! The Cruel Paradox of Self-Publishing (The Atlantic) — “Digital and print-on-demand technology has made self-publishing much easier. But for every self-published work that gains traction, the overwhelming majority of [...]

Wordpreneur Reader 09.11.2012



Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amish fiction: Put a bonnet on it (Salon) — “Forget ’50 Shades of Grey’ — Amish fiction is hot, and a woman in a headcover means an instant bestseller.” [...]

Wordpreneur Reader 09.04.2012



Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Choose Relationships Over Assignments (Dollars and Deadlines) — “What happens if editors at both bridal publications want the story? Even if my contracts allow it… I guarantee one of [...]