The trends with teenagers and social media are an important topic with marketers. Teens are a fast-moving demographic whose tastes and behaviors change with the fads. This makes marketing to teenagers a bit perplexing. Just when you mastered Facebook a new report comes out that teens are leaving Facebook in droves. The trend has as much to…
Black Friday is an annual event taking place the day after Thanksgiving here in the U.S., sparking the first day of the biggest shopping season of the year. The calendar for 2013 leaves us with eleven fewer days to shop this holiday season as Thanksgiving falls on the final days of the month this year.…
If you subscribe to the Brands with Fans newsletter, you are already familiar with many of the features Mailchimp Marketing campaigns offer. You could always head over to Mailchimp’s official blog for more information on running a newsletter campaign, but we thought you’d want to know why Fandom recommends Mailchimp for our clients and how…
If your web site features great photos that people would want to share, one of the easiest things to do that can increase traffic to your site is adding a nice Pinterest hover button to your images. When a visitor rolls their pointer over the image, a Pinterest button fades in, and when clicked, it will…
For most companies, Pinterest has moved from the question of “Should we?” to “How can we best use it?” If you’re lucky enough to have fans pinning your content, then you should have a solid plan in place on how to harness that power and best use it to your advantage. Here are four Pinterest…
It happened so fast. Social media has crept into the mainstream over the last twelve years. Crept? OK, that’s not a good word. Let’s call it launch bombed. Like 007 landing at the party in a big parachute. While arguably social media in the form of two-way communication online was developed as early as the…
Everyone seems to have their standard set of social platforms in place (Facebook, Twitter, blog) and this is the year for marketers to take the next step forward to seriously consider their content. We are all thinking about how to better leverage our digital brand assets and distribute them in a way that makes sense…
Pinterest is an online pin board where people organize and share the things they love. It has become the most popular curation website in history and the fastest growing social network in 2011-2012, ranking higher than Google+ despite being closed to users on an invite only basis. Over 10.4 million registered users, 9 million…
