Find the Great Deals...Get Social!

This Holiday Shopping season is heating up the social network scene...family and friends are passing along some great deals, coupons, free shipping codes and even exchanging this year's ideas on the best gifts. Carve out some time to get connected socially on Facebook and especially Twitter this month. Web marketing forecasters expect Twitter traffic to rise in December despite a recent decrease in traffic in October. Users are posting links and retweeting those deals like crazy.

Remember to use your network to drop those holiday wish list hints!!

Twitter & Facebook Exposure

Twitter and Facebook exposure on ads, billboards and biz cards is getting bigger. While out this weekend at the Garden State Plaza Mall, they have enormous billboards and whole wall imagery throughout the mall that displays only two things: "Follow Us on Twitter" and "Fan Us on Facebook" with the Keyword Hint. This is something that was made popular with AOL users and followed with to TV commercials and online advertising. It's smart if you have a long brand name or a new brand name that doesn't provide instant results when searching. Twitter is really bad at providing the appropriate results for their search sometimes...you really need to know the username to find a user on Twitter. That's what GSP Mall did, they provided the user name as their keyword for Twitter and their Fan Page title as the keyword on Facebook. Didn't even mention their web site URL. And why would they when the mall is catered to younger web users still in their teen years. Very smart on their part.