Marketing Pilgrim Published: “30% of Profits Donated to Charity, When You Buy Andy Beal’s New Book “Repped” (This Week Only!)” plus 2 more |  |
- 30% of Profits Donated to Charity, When You Buy Andy Beal’s New Book “Repped” (This Week Only!)
- Pinterest Updates Acceptable Use Policy And Cracks Down on Paid Pins
- Social Media Super Bowl: Did We Break Any Records?
| 30% of Profits Donated to Charity, When You Buy Andy Beal’s New Book “Repped” (This Week Only!) Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:05 AM PST
You can now buy the book at Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions. For less than $13, you’ll get a practical and actionable guide to building, managing, monitoring and repairing your online reputation. The book is perfect for individuals and companies, so really everyone should pick up a copy. Just in case protecting your online reputation is not incentive enough to rush straight over to Amazon.com, I have another one for you. For one week only (starting today) 30% of all profits will be donated to three worthy non-profits: Wounded Warrior Project, The V Foundation, and the Raleigh Rescue Mission. So go and pick up your copy today. Seriously, the Kindle version is just $6.99!!! Not only will you help your own reputation, but there will be three charities that will thank you! Andy Yes, I would like to protect my reputation and help some great causes.
Read an extract of Repped for free!
*okay, perhaps that’s just me.        |
| Pinterest Updates Acceptable Use Policy And Cracks Down on Paid Pins Posted: 03 Feb 2014 12:45 PM PST
Pinterest uses the word “authentic”, meaning they only want Pins that would naturally occur based on someone’s enthusiasm for the subject matter. In order to keep the site more “authentic,” they’ve clarified a few points in an update to their Acceptable Use Policy. And kudos to the team who wrote this document in plain English. It’s not that we’re stupid, but by stripping out the legalese, they’ve made their position crystal clear. Paid to Pin: You cannot compensate a person for pinning, repinning or liking your business pins. You can pay a person to run your Pinterest. You can also pay commission through an affiliate network for items purchased through a pin. So hiring a company that has an army of repinners working for a penny a pop will get you banned. Contests Back in October, Pinterest changed their terms in regard to the “Pin to win” contests that had become popular on the site. Here’s a refresher:
You can run a contest where you ask people to pin something with a hashtag (so you can locate all of the entries) but it must be a one entry per person situation. Pinterest also created a document with plain English content guidelines and examples (which might be disturbing) of inappropriate Pins. I would hope that no one here needs to be told not to pin these kinds of materials but you never know. . . The bottom line is, you can’t do anything that artificially inflates your numbers. It’s common sense but sometimes we all need a reminder. Forget the shortcuts. Play the game, by the rules or you risk losing the account you worked so hard to build up in the first place. Join the Marketing Pilgrim Facebook Community    |
| Social Media Super Bowl: Did We Break Any Records? Posted: 03 Feb 2014 12:01 PM PST Technically, this weekend’s Super Bowl (#SB48) broke the Twitter record but not by much. Tweeters sent 24.9 million messages about the game or the half-time show during the three and half hour telecast.
Even though the game wasn’t as exciting as last year’s, there were still a few stand-out, exceptionally Tweetable moments. (*TPM = Tweets Per Minute)
Twitter says the highs were higher than last year which is what pushed this year over the top. But last year’s half-time show with Beyonce had the fingers flying faster than anything Bruno Mars did with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 2013:
Facebook’s Numbers I couldn’t find an official release but everyone’s pointing to a post from Facebook’s Public Content Manager:
He also posted:
In other words, everyone over the age of 18 was on Facebook, but especially younger people. Finally, a few interesting sharing stats from Add This: Sharing Trends
Sounds like a good time was had by. . . . almost. . . all.    |
In case you’ve spent the past couple of weeks pacing the floor, waking up in a cold sweat, and generally super excited* about the pending availability of my new book, Repped: 30 Days to a Better Online Reputation, I have good news:
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