Earlier this week, the largest ever global research project into online activities and behavior was launched at Digital Life. The results are displayed in an easy-to-understand multimedia application which lets you investigate the findings visually. A must see for every business! (Special thanks to Stacy Lukasavitz for pointing it out). Key findings include….
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News & Notes
Choosing a Personal Brand vs. a Business Brand
How to brand yourself is a question vital to any business. Branding drives marketing, product development and everything customer-facing. As a small business, branding takes on more personal meaning — should you brand your business as your name (personal brand) or as a business name? It’s a big decision since it really can affect the future growth of your company. But it’s also not a clear cut decision since there are advantages and disadvantages either way.
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The Most Effective Time to Tweet
I crunched some numbers on my Twitter account to see what the most effective time is to tweet (at least for me). I took a look at the number of clicks on tweets by what time of day and what day of the week for a 2 month time period (August and September) and then averaged them to remove discrepancies due to the number of tweets. Tweets included links to articles by others, my own blog posts, a few promotions and retweets. I took out a couple of retweets that had huge click numbers since I had retweeted a very influential person and clicks were most likely due to their influence. I tweet about a fairly wide range of topics, but the results are interesting….
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