Marketing Blog

News stories and blogs are being indexed by search engines, and many times, if a company makes the news, that can sometimes be the first item found in the search engine rankings.

Blogging, tweeting, friending. Odd sounding verbs, but they are the leaders of the newest form of network marketing and one of the most effective: Social Media Marketing looks like it’s here to stay.

For entrepreneurs, global brand teams, and key players in mission-driven organizations, heeding the signs of what’s ahead becomes the difference between survival and extinction. To help these professionals as they begin a brand-new year of opportunity, social marketing and success strategies firm Epiphanies, Inc. is sharing five trend-infused predictions for how social media will affect the business world in 2010.

Econsultancy recently conducted a survey to determine how big a role social marketing and online PR is playing for a cross-section of over 1000 businesses. The results, to say the least, were quite interesting.

To put it simply, we love short, snappy messages, especially when they contain the same amount of valuable content and wisdom as a long blog post. Call it impatience or a lack of any real attention span; it is the end result of the internet and it is proving to be remarkably useful, not just for marketers but for everyday people.