Facebook, the social media giant, is now working together with Bing, Microsoft’s not-quite-as-popular-as-Google search engine. The biggest affect so far is that now “like” and profile data from Facebook can be searched on Bing. In an effort to improve the social media aspect of the search engine (something that may give Bing an edge over…
According to a recent study by TNS, more people are using social media and logging on to social networking sites on their mobile devices than checking their email. In fact, the enormous study (which included almost 50,000 subjects in over 40 countries) revealed a lot of information about ho often people use social media (such…
According to a new survey from ChangeWave Research, interest in the Android and the iPhone is almost even. It’s only a one point difference, but the survey shows Apple’s iPhone no longer dominates the smartphone world as it once did. In September, only 38 percent of the consumers interviewed want iOS on their next smartphone,…
Earlier in this blog, we taught you the basics of doing product photography for your e-commerce. In e-commerce, all transactions are done over the web and for customers, the inability to touch and feel the product is very crucial in buying a certain product. So for e-commerce practitioners, this setback has to be compensated in…
According to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index, Walmart.com’s mobile commerce site earned a perfect score for mobile web performance. The mega retailer’sm-commerce site homepage downloaded on average in 3.22 seconds and did so 98.99% of the time. That’s very impressive. Keynote Systems Inc., a mobile and web performance firm, weighs and then combines load…
When people say social media, we immediately think about Facebook. Facebook is as social as it gets online. But lately, the world’s most popular social media website is fast becoming a popular e-commerce website. When social media meets e-commerce, what do you get? Experts call it social e-commerce. According to an article by Paul Chaney…
E-commerce basically means doing business online. For consumers, the absence of the ability to feel, touch, hold, smell, and probably even taste the products equates to simply not buying the product. This can be offset with brilliant product photos, however. Product photography might as well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce…
Social media has a huge impact on marketing, but sometimes its still amazing to see how much. It was less than six months ago that Twitter released Promoted Tweets, their unique ad platform. Essentially, Promoted Tweets are advertisements that are placed at the top of a Twitter search with a tag underneath revealing the tweet…
According to a new report released by comScore, Facebook is the leading social media network in all but eight countries. The leading source of internet marketing intelligence, comScore, measured the Internet activity of 41 countries over all. Facebook reaches about 43.9 percent of Internet users around the world, says comScore. The social media…
Experimenting with search engine optimization and social media can either result in positive or negative results. But it is only through experimentation that we know which strategy works for us and our business. Luckily, with the advent of expert SEO services from Cybertegic, Inc. and other internet marketing service companies, there are easier ways to…
