This Week in Social Media-20120306

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We have all the data about the mobile application industry.  We are happy to take the time to listen to you teach us how your business works.  We will provide you with the salient data about mobile apps and revenue generation in your market.

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It’s Consumer Scientific.

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•  iPhone, Android, Blackberry
•  All 3 Major Operating Systems Supported
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book, by “Sifu Slim” – Fitness Guru and Coach Enrique Kreuter

• Mobile App Development
• Website Redesign
• Technical Website Development Consulting
• SEO Services
• On-line Marketing Strategy and Social Media Presence

Aria Oriental Rugs

 4 Generation oriental rug dealer and service provider.   The trusted source for oriental textile acquisition, appraisal, and care in the film industry community for 70 years.

• Website Redesign
• Technical Website Development Consulting
• SEO Services
• On-line Marketing Strategy and Social Media Presence

Elizabeth parsons, artist

Portrait Painter and Graphics Artist Gallery Site

• Website Redesign
• Technical Website Development Consulting
• SEO Services
• On-line Marketing Strategy and Social Media Presence

Children’s Gardens

Children’s Gardens is a new non-profit organization with a vision for educating the next generation of children about

• gardening with non-hybridized fruits and vegetables
• the importance of fresh, raw food in our diet for vitality
• quick, healthy and delicious recipes for elementary school age children created by famous chefs from food straight from the garden.

Children’s Gardens has an extensive database of plants for home gardening, both ornamental and agricultural, which provides detailed climate, soil, watering, and fertilization information not available anywhere else in a single resource.

They are producing a series of videos hosted by an 8 year old gardener trained by the professor of organic agriculture at CalPoly San Luis Obispo.

A series of videos with elementary school age ‘chefs’ cooking recipes from the books of famous New York vegetarian chef Matthew Kenney will be produced this year.

Children’s Gardens is directed by Thomas Chock, a career nursery owner and landscape designer from Hawaii.

Consumer Scientific is providing a full range of technical and promotional support for Children’s Gardens, including website development, mobile apps, and SEO services.

http://www.childrensgardens.org

Casitas LAKE Rowing Association

Casitias Lake Rowing Association is the destination fitness and racing club for crew enthusiasts throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

Located at the site of the 1984 Summer Olympics rowing competition, the Association offers team competition training, private and public instruction, boat rental, corporate team building events and fitness programs.

Casitas Rowing Association is drected by Eric Gillett and his wife, Wendy, both nationally ranked collegiate rowers.

Consumer Scientific is providing technical support for the redesign and launch of their upgraded website and on-line services.

http://www.casitasrowing.org

Lake Casitas from Hwy 150

Market Analysis, Demographics, Social Media Presence

The Search Marketer

Namita Patel, Principal.

Branding, Promotions, Google Local 

Patina Marketing

SEO Services

The Search Engine Pros

Taylor Reaume, President

Led by Founder Taylor Reaume, a seasoned e-business consultant, The Search Engine Pros contracts 50 professionals worldwide, from the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and South Africa. The Search Engine Pros continued growth is based on its guiding set of principles:

• Over deliver on customer expectations.

• Empower the customer to succeed.

• Develop cutting-edge proprietary technology.

• Sell at the most competitive price.

As a result of customer success and commitment to “overdelivery,” customer fanaticism is well-known and is The Search Engine Pros greatest pride. Reaume regards loyalty as a two-way street and is firm in his resolution to constantly improve the service with innovations that keep customers on the cutting edge.

Over 81% of consumers are now making purchasing decisions online. What that means to many is that SEO is no longer optional.  It’s critical to find someone you can trust to help with SEO to enjoy continued success and growth of your company.

This is information that should dramatically change the allocation of marketing budgets in 2012.

Powerful from the First

Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me to pickup some cassette tapes for him at the store.

I said, “You’re iPhone 4GS can record sound.”

He said, “Oh.  I didn’t know it could do that. “

I started wondering how many people who own ‘smart phones’ think that these phones are just ‘phones’?

In case you’re one of those people, let’s talk.

Your smart phone is NOT a phone.  It is a:

1. Computer

2. Image Processor

3. Camera

4. GPS station and GPS Application Host

5. Photo Album

6. Game Console

7. A Recording Studio

8. and almost anything else you can think of …

9. and yes, it also works as a Phone.

The difference between a smart phone and a special purpose device of each type listed above is: you must download the software … an APP … instead of going a buying some cassette tapes.

It’s a little more confusing initially, and you may need to spend as much time and money getting it right as the trip to the electronics superstore would have required.

But, you will have a powerful new tool without having to carry around an additional ‘tape’ or ‘player’ or anything else.

This is MAGIC!

… and I told my friend he was crazy and refused to buy him the tapes.

The answer is: Women, ages 27 to 31.

What’s important here is that this group of women ‘shares’ the products and services they find on the web more than any other demographic.

This ‘sharing’ has probably been characteristic of this age group for hundreds of years.

But, now … the World has changed.

1. It’s the Most Powerful Marketing Ever.

On-line recommendations convert into actual product purchases at an amazingly high rate: 10% of shares converted in a recent study of Facebook shares.

But, much more surprising, a study of in-store purchases that were initiated by on-line sharing showed that 5 out of 6 sales occurred in a physical store.   This fact suggests that the actual conversion rate could be as high as 1 purchase for every 2 shares.

2. Many more People Shared With:

They have access to Social Media.  Now, when a woman shares some ‘find’, it goes out to ALL her friends, not just the 2 or 3 she’s with at the moment.    

3. It’s Instant

They have the internet.  It delivers messages in seconds, not hours or days.

4. There’s No Forgetting.

Their iPhone and iPad give them immediate access to the sharing ability of Social Media 24 hours a day.

5. It is Effortless for Anything “On The Web” with a Share Button

The statistics show that 12 times as many shares occur when a ‘social media share link’ is displayed at the top of the web page.

Just adding social media links to your web pages, an almost free one-time task, can measurably increase the sales generated by your web site and social media pages.