Salon Cuts More Hair Thanks to Social Marketing

This post on Blogging PRWeb highlights one businesses success with effective internet marketing with social media and PR.

Social Media For Small Business – Less Of The Marketing And More Of The Social

Some helpful hints in this article by James Debono on Business 2 Community

How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media

Great infographic by Infographic Labs

Required Reading: New Tablet Report from Morgan Stanley

You’ve no doubt heard of white papers, but here is a blue paper (link opens PDF) from Morgan Stanley called “Tablet Demand and Disruption: Mobile Users Come of Age.” (It certainly will make anyone involved in the printing industry blue.) There is a ton of great info—tablet PCs are displacing not only print applications, but also PC usage. One is tempted to be somewhat skeptical and contrarian to projections this bullish, but we don’t find their forecasts outlandish in the slightest.

To wit, the cover story from the recent issue of Information Week that shows how tablets are marching into all sorts of business, “from garbage trucks to cruise ships.”

Debate: Does Social Media Deliver Results for Small Businesses?

This story from the February 13, 2012  Wall Street Journal caught our attention!

The Fingers Have Walked Away

Pity the poor Yellow Pages. Once the go-to place to which fingers went a-walking to find phone numbers and addresses, now a much-maligned slab of irrelevance, as evidenced by this photo which has been making the rounds virally. 

As we point out in "Does a Plumber Need a Web Site?", marketing is no longer about simply putting an ad or a listing in the phone book and wait for the fingers to come to you. Now, it's about using a diverse combination of old and new media channels.