Social Media Marketing: Defining and Calculating ROI

Convincing your CEO to implement or continue a social media campaign isn’t an easy task. Just like any marketing initiative, you must be able to identify its benefits and illustrate how the investment will ultimately generate profit. What your boss is looking for is a high return on investment ratio, or ROI. You need to…

Social Media Tips: Creating A Corporate Blog That Works

When we talk of social media, the first three things that come to mind are Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. However, there is one often overlooked social media tool that becomes untapped because of increasing focus on the three aforementioned social media marketing networks. We are talking about blogs. Blogs (or web logs, in its long…

Social Media Tips: Maintaining A Company Twitter Account

These days, it is not uncommon to see a company–big or small–hooked up to Twitter. This is the power of social media today. Even the most established companies jump in on these social media marketing tools because it has been proven that utilizing social media can indeed affect business growth. Like we always say, it…

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Measure the Success of Ecommerce Websites through Customer Base

Measuring the success of any ecommerce website is relatively easy. While online sales are the primary means of determining whether the ecommerce site is a hit or miss, Rebecca Corliss of HubSpot identifies three ways to rightfully measure the success of ecommerce sites in terms of the people who visit your website. 1. Revenue is…

Social Media Etiquette for Online Entrepreneurs

With the anonymity that social media networking offers, it is easy to lose track of proper communication etiquette. If you are an e-commerce merchant utilizing social media networks as a marketing tool, good for you! Social media marketing is definitely the next big thing in e-commerce. However, it should be used wisely and properly for…

Email Marketing Tips for Ecommerce Businesses

Email marketing is an aspect of online advertising that does not receive as much attention (and probably efforts) as search engine optimization or social media marketing. The truth is, email marketing is an internet marketing strategy that builds customer relationship and generates repeat sales because it builds brand recognition and customer loyalty. Small to mid-sized…

Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Likes Social Media Networks

Facebook is continuously being adopted by businesses nationwide and is showing no signs of slowing down. If you ask Internet Retailer’s 2011 Top 500 companies, you will find that 86% (or 432 companies to be more precise) of them have taken a liking to the world’s largest social networking site. This figure is a 16%…