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The globalization of Pinterest begins with Mobile

Pinterest has been taking over the world, Pinky! And rightfully so. People from all countries and all languages are pinning on this platform at a tremendously growing rate.

A noticeable globalization of Pinterest begun a couple years ago, when comScore started reporting figures of Pinterest penetration and growth worldwide.

Globalization of Pinterest: A more mobile website

This is what Tracy Chou, Pinterest’s software engineer and a key player in the redesign had to say about it on their blog:

“As we launch in new countries around world, we want to make it easy for everyone to access Pinterest—no matter where you are or what device you’re using. That’s why we recently updated our mobile website.

Now when you visit pinterest.com on mobile, you’ll see the latest version of Pinterest, with a cleaner design and the same features (like more useful pins and related pins) you’d get on the web or our mobile app.

The iOS and Android apps are still the fastest way to access Pinterest, but if you don’t have the apps, the mobile site is a great alternative. Stay tuned for more mobile updates over the next few months!”

Globalization of Pinterest: Great mobile features

Promotional Pins - Read about the Globalization of Pinterest - Photography credits: Pinterest Blog

Promotional Pins – Globalization of Pinterest

Pinterest strived to provide the same experience to mobile visitors than to those that visit the platform’s web and native app version. With a cleaner, pared down version that includes the “more useful” pins and related pins feature. According to Pinterest, 75% of the platform’s traffic comes from native mobile apps on iOS and Android. With an enhanced mobile browser version of the website, it’s likely that the share of mobile activity will get even greater, as those who don’t have the access to apps will get a similar experience.

 

Globalization of Pinterest: What’s ahead

Pinterest’s own Ben Silbermann, CEO & Co-Founder has announced the full deployment of the promotional pins ad network for September, and a possible next step in opening up new streams of revenue for the company.

by Havi Goffan

Photography credits: Pinterest Blog

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The globalization of Pinterest begins with Mobile

Pinterest has been taking over the world, Pinky! And rightfully so. People from all countries and all languages are pinning on this platform at a tremendously growing rate.

A noticeable globalization of Pinterest begun a couple years ago, when comScore started reporting figures of Pinterest penetration and growth worldwide.

Globalization of Pinterest: A more mobile website

This is what Tracy Chou, Pinterest’s software engineer and a key player in the redesign had to say about it on their blog:

“As we launch in new countries around world, we want to make it easy for everyone to access Pinterest—no matter where you are or what device you’re using. That’s why we recently updated our mobile website.

Now when you visit pinterest.com on mobile, you’ll see the latest version of Pinterest, with a cleaner design and the same features (like more useful pins and related pins) you’d get on the web or our mobile app.

The iOS and Android apps are still the fastest way to access Pinterest, but if you don’t have the apps, the mobile site is a great alternative. Stay tuned for more mobile updates over the next few months!”

Globalization of Pinterest: Great mobile features

Promotional Pins - Read about the Globalization of Pinterest - Photography credits: Pinterest Blog

Promotional Pins – Globalization of Pinterest

Pinterest strived to provide the same experience to mobile visitors than to those that visit the platform’s web and native app version. With a cleaner, pared down version that includes the “more useful” pins and related pins feature. According to Pinterest, 75% of the platform’s traffic comes from native mobile apps on iOS and Android. With an enhanced mobile browser version of the website, it’s likely that the share of mobile activity will get even greater, as those who don’t have the access to apps will get a similar experience.

 

Globalization of Pinterest: What’s ahead

Pinterest’s own Ben Silbermann, CEO & Co-Founder has announced the full deployment of the promotional pins ad network for September, and a possible next step in opening up new streams of revenue for the company.

by Havi Goffan

Photography credits: Pinterest Blog

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Social Media Alerts for Manufacturing Defects Delivers Results

Social media alerts represent a largely untapped source of information that could be extremely valuable to manufacturers that need to stay on top of safety and reliability problems.

Social media alerts represent a largely untapped source of information that could be extremely valuable to manufacturers that need to stay on top of safety and reliability problems.

If something goes wrong with your car, you’ll probably text your family first, Facebook your friends, Instagram a snapshot of your disaster, and tweet a general complaint to the rest of the world. Then you’ll get the car fixed. Probably the last thing you would do is go to the manufacturer’s Web site and fill out a feedback form.

Social media alerts represent a largely untapped source of information that could be extremely valuable to manufacturers that need to stay on top of safety and reliability problems. The challenge is to sift useful data out of the mountains of unrelated information that consumers share on message boards, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the like.

Social Media Alerts for auto manufacturers at Virginia Tech

At Virginia Tech, two business information students Alan Abrams and Weiguo Fan developed a sort of linguistic smoke detector to identify potentially useful information about specific automobiles that may be contained in vast amounts of “dynamic and unstructured” social media content.

Beginning with online discussion forums for owners of Honda, Toyota, and Chevrolet vehicles, the researchers employed car experts to manually sort and tag posts that contained information about defects. The “automotive smoke words” enabled the researchers to devise decision support systems (such as automated Web crawlers) to help manufacturers discover defects.

The researchers plan to expand their analysis to Twitter and Facebook postings. Says Abrams, “With the volume of social media posts expanding rapidly, we expect that the need for automated business intelligence tools for the exploration of this vast and valuable data set will continue to grow.”

Social Media Alerts on other Monitoring Tools

While the researchers at Virginia Tech attempt to develop  this tool specifically for automobile manufactures, many other companies around the world have developed linguistic analysis and semantics tool that can monitor social media and alert not only automobile manufacturers but all manufactures and businesses when one of their products or services may have gone awry.

One of the easiest ways manufacturers can take advantage of social media alerts is by establishing them to cover a wide range of topics. By doing so manufacturers can quickly monitor any social media activity about their products, company, industry or competition.

By using social media alert tools like the one presented here or free ones like Social Mention and Google Alerts or the social media alert capabilities of any other social media monitoring software you can set up alerts in minutes and have them delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader.

 

Social Media Alerts from Monitoring Tools

Social Media Alerts from Monitoring Tools

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The 36 Rules of Social Media

#33. Your Fans OWN your brand

#33. Your Fans OWN your brand

Here is a compilation of the 36 Rules of Social Media from key social media gurus and marketers from all industries. It was put together by Fast Company and it illustrates some of the best practices to going about your social media strategy and execution. Even though some of these are not meant to be written in stone and you can break a few, we hope you find them as interesting as we did.

The 36 Rules of Social Media

    1. If all you do is respond to complaints, that’s all people will send you.
    2. Stop and Ask: Would and actual person talk that way?
    3. Everyone says they don’t want to be marketed to. Really, they just don’t want to be talked down to.
    4. The consumer is out for himself. Not for you.
Have a Social Media Crisis Plan

Have a Social Media Crisis Plan

    1. As monetization attempts to go up, consumer experience goes down.
    2. Don’t try to be clever. BE clever.
    3. Social is 24/7, not a one time stunt. (And it really IS 24/7)
    4. Always WRITE BACK. (This one is a must – but there are exceptions: See Applebee’s social media blunder)
    5. Have an ROI. Have an ROI. Have an ROI.
    6. People would rather talk to “Comcast Melissa” than “Comcast.” (So true!!! Had the pleasure of dealing with Comcast Melissa myself!! and she’s fantastic!))
    7. Solve problems for people who talk about you, even if they don’t address you. (Listen to the conversation and engage)
    8. Not everything will work and that’s fine.
    9. Embrace negative content about your brand.
    10. EVERYONE’S an influencer.
    11. If fans distribute your content without your permission, OFFER TO HELP. (Love this one!)
    12. It’s okay to drive people to your site instead of FACEBOOK’s.
    13. Update your page, or delete it.
    14. Don’t make people do x, y and z. Stick with X.
    15. Last year: Pump out content. This year: Optimize content. (May I add, or die.)
Everyone says they don’t want to be marketed to. Really, they just don’t want to be talked down to.

Everyone says they don’t want to be marketed to. Really, they just don’t want to be talked down to.

  1. Become BFFs with your Facebook Reps.
  2. Social Media doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Make traditional media and social media work together. (Please, integrate strategies!)
  3. Desktop is conquered territory. Mobile is the battlefield. (Don’t forget tablets!)
  4. If you don’t see financial results. You wasted your money. (Unless you want results overnight, then you need to check with a shrink as you may be delusional. I have never seen financial results of a marketing strategy happen overnight, unless it’s some kind of scheme.)
  5. People fight for their privacy.
  6. The only way to scale word of mouth: Paid Advertising.
  7. Have a crisis plan. (Please, do!!!)
  8. Don’t use ads to prop up boring content. Use ads to accelerate successful content.
  9. Forget individuals. You’re creating content that encourages groups to form.
  10. People don’t want to shop where they socialize.
  11. Contests and sweepstakes are fine, if you want to encourage short relationships.
  12. People care what you had for breakfast- if you are a food brand.
  13. Pinterest WORKS.
  14. Your fans OWN your brand.
  15. If you’re bored by social media, it’s because you’re trying to get more value than you create.
  16. Think past vanity metrics like followers.
  17. It’s an organism not a process.

Maybe it bears repeating: Pinterest WORKS 😉

as i always say in 3 months this will be peanuts

as i always say in 3 months this will be peanuts

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Sears Goes Social with Hispanics

Sears recently announced several social media efforts aimed at the Hispanic market, including new Facebook and Twitter programs. (It already has three separate Hispanic Web sites, including SearsPR, launched last year, which ships merchandise only to the island of Puerto Rico.)

Sears Goes Social with Hispanics

Sears Goes Social with Hispanics

Marketing Daily caught up with Oscar H. Castro, director/general manager of international e-commerce, for more details on how the Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based retailer hopes to woo the rapidly growing, social-media loving Hispanic market:

Sears Goes Social with Hispanics

Q: How do Hispanic shoppers differ in terms of social media use?

A: Social media is such an important channel for us right now; Hispanic growth on Facebook is eight times larger than the general population, and we know that Hispanic consumers spend more time on it each week as well. So for us, it seems the best thing to do is work with that higher level of engagement. We’re not creating these forums to push products so much as to build stronger relationships. And it’s pretty exciting. In two weeks we’ve gotten 16,000 fans, and a great level of engagement.

Q: But does that mean there is also an increased appetite for retail in social media?

A: Yes, I think Hispanic culture really is different about shopping. It’s much more of a family activity; the whole family goes out to the mall. They are more social about shopping, in general. They want to have more conversations. We want to join the conversation.

Q: Are there gender differences?

A: Well, younger Latinas are more likely to shop online than older women, or men. But other than that, there are not a lot of major differences.

Q: Is it effective for a marketer as large as Sears to focus on a single Hispanic market, when there are so many submarkets?

A: There are so many differences, and that’s what makes Hispanic marketing so difficult. Facebook is a great equalizer, and you can have general conversations with broader appeal. But there are many cultural nuances. What works for a Dominican audience may not for a Mexican one. So some of our efforts are extremely local.

We launched SearsPR.com last year to serve only the Puerto Rican market. We use local terminology, and a completely separate marketing program. Sears offers 290 million products online, and of course, our mission is to help our customer find things anytime, anywhere. But there are items on this site you can’t find in the continental U.S.

Q: Why so many different initiatives?

A: This market is large and projected to grow even further, and we are leaders in it. It’s not going to be a niche market, it’s going to be the U.S. market. And I can’t think of too many brands that have been very effective. McDonald’s now leads with its diversity insights, and Coca-Cola has done a great job in the Latino market. And I think we’ll see more Latin brands crossing over into the mainstream — like Corona beer.

A reminder

A reminder

Social Media Campaign for Travel and Tourism Industry

Facebook is not always the solution when planning or executing a Social Media campaign, especially when the industry is Travel and Tourism. TripAdvisor, the New York Times Travel section, Driftr.com, TripSay, ThornTree, and many other Social Media sites would be a more suitable choice.

50 million reviews and opinions on TripAdvisor, the world’s largest Travel site, would definitely back this up. TripAdvisor has doubled its content in two years and features more user-generated content than any other Travel website.

Executing a Social Media campaign for Travel and Tourism? See how TripAdvisor did it.

Executing a Social Media campaign for Travel and Tourism? TripAdvisor today reached the 50 million reviews and opinions milestone

TripAdvisor announced today that it has reached the 50 million reviews and opinions milestone

Social Media Campaign for Travel and Tourism Industry

In January 2005, TripAdvisor reached one million published reviews and opinions, then grew to 10 million in June 2007, 25 million in July 2009 and now features 50 million reviews and opinions — more user-generated content than any other travel site.  TripAdvisor currently publishes 25 new contributions every minute thanks to its active traveler community of more than 20 million members worldwide.

“When we first launched TripAdvisor we knew there would be an appetite among travelers for honest reviews written by real people. Eleven years later, we are tremendously proud to have reached 50 million reviews and opinions which help over 40 million travelers a month around the world plan and experience the perfect trip,” said Steve Kaufer, founder and CEO of TripAdvisor.

TripAdvisor Content Fun Facts

  • The first review on TripAdvisor was published on December 11, 2001 on the Roost Lodge in Vail, Colorado
  • The most reviewed property in the world is the Luxor Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, currently with more than 6,100 reviews
  • The total word count of reviews and opinions on TripAdvisor is equivalent to the word count of 9,420 volumes of the novel “War and Peace”

TripAdvisor VERY Interesting Facts

  • TripAdvisor attracts more than 50 million unique monthly visitors* across 19 popular travel brands*
  • TripAdvisor-branded sites have more than 40 million unique monthly visitors*
  • The sites have  more than 20 million members and over 50 million reviews and opinions
  • The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com
  • TripAdvisor Media Group generated $486 million in revenue in 2010

“TripAdvisor has tremendous user loyalty and this is largely due to the freshness of content added to the site every day by our passionate community,” said Kaufer. “We would like to thank the millions of reviewers who have contributed to making TripAdvisor the world’s largest and most relevant travel planning tool.”

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* Source: comScore MediaMetrix