Twitter boasts over 140 million active users who produce over 340 million Tweets per day. Certainly, Twitter has established itself as a major force in the social media universe and major brands agree as 77% of marketers listed Twitter as one of their top three priority social platforms. (more…)
Most of my clients are talking about cloud storage and the various services being offered “in the cloud.” Financial services providers, for example, are wondering where they are going to store all the social media and other data FINRA regulations require them to store. Law firms, accounting firms and small businesses are wondering if they need to be spending money on hardware and software or on storage and other cloud services. Firms are establishing specialties in providing virtual business solutions for their clients. Cloud storage/services is a topic that is becoming more and more important and we are helping you analyze your options. (more…)
Word is, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) is allowing all its financial advisers to participate in Twitter and LinkedIn. Last year, it announced plans to open social media use to its advisers. The first step of the plan was to allow 600 advisers to use Twitter and LinkedIn in some capacity–now the firm's roughly 17,000 financial advisers will be able to use the social-media sites. Lauren Boyman, MSSB's director of social media said that during the pilot program, LinkedIn helped advisers win more business. (more…)
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Are you a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) or otherwise responsible for your company's inbound marketing? Here's an infographic that could prove very helpful to your efforts to get the job done right! Take a close look at the information contained in this infographic which provides a lot of great information in a very concise, easy to read format. (more…)
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Today I read this post about 4 alternatives to WordPress and thought I'd share this information with you too. There's lots of possibilities out there. Find the one that fits you and your needs and go with it. The real message here is that you need to have a blog associated with your company, firm or business. GET TO IT!
