Social Media Trends

Social media: essential tips for using Pinterest for business

Online marketing. Google launches an alternative to Pinterest

Marketing online: The most popular social networks in Spain.

Within the investment in online marketing, social media has been the big winner in increasing marketing budgets in 2013.

Until now to remember any url of a Google+ page was nearly impossible. Google+ already been fixed with the new custom urls.

If you asked to users of social networks or people interested in online marketing which the most popular networks are. We would probably listen that Facebook and Twitter are the most popular ones.

There is a moment when all social networks tries to make money. Now it seems that Pinterest has reached this point and has just introduced advertising through promoted pins.

Online marketing is a discipline where experts launch new terms very often and social commerce is one of them. First used in 1995 by Yahoo! social commerce is the use of social media to encourage and promote the sale of products.

Online marketing and social media in 2013
If there is a star in the online marketing is social media. In the last quarter of 2012 and first of 2013 global social networks continued to grow at the expense of local ones.

One of the main pillars of online marketing is social media birthday and here we are now enjoying a happy birthday. Google's social network, Google+ has just just turned two years old.

Data from the last Omnibus Government of Catalonia on the use of the Internet, mobile and social networks published in April 2012 gives us valuable information about Catalan users at social networking and mobile.

In March we reported that Facebook was planning to incorporate the hashtag or # on its social network. Today it has become real and not just on Facebook but also on Google+.

60% of consumers said they felt influenced by the comments that are on social networks.

The last report carried on by GWI.8 highlights, above all, the consolidation of three major global social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Google+) above the rest.

Since this Christmas, LA TEVA WEB carries on the marketing online and social media for the official store for Hello Kitty in Spain.

As in most countries worldwide, Facebook is the most popular social network in Spain, despite an annual retreat, its use amounts to 33.3% of the Spanish population.

Twitter co-founders, Williams and Biz Stone, launched two new social networks in the middle of August.

Pinterest has just announced that finally opens to all users leaving behind the invitation system.

Undoubtedly Facebook, Twitter and Google + are the major social networks. However, new social networks are emerging and consolidating. Pinterest is a good example and now is available in Spanish.

These changes in Google+, that are already being implemented, have the aim to make a Google+ more simple and nicer but, above all, more functional. What is clear is that it is a new leap forward in which they have known how to incorporate the improvements made recently by other popular social networks.