Interesting Stats on Home Improvement Research

eMarketer reports that for Brands and retailers in the home improvement sector, over 1/3 of homeowners start their home improvement projects online. According to Zillow, a real estate website, a survey in the U.S. taken in the winter of 2013 found that 39% of adults found inspiration for such projects online. In a 2013 survey…

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10 Ways Google Analytics Can Help your Small Business

“As one of the farthest reaching communication tools available, a website is accessible to consumers 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year, or in other words – at all times,” said president and founder of WebLink International, DJ Muller. This is why using a tool to analyze your website’s statistics is incredibly valuable. It allows…

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How to Gain Competitive Insight With Social Media

Link: How to Gain Competitive Insight With Social Media “Are you looking for that competitive edge? Want to know what your peers are up to? Using social media to research competitors can provide useful information for any business looking to create a smart strategy.  Learning about your competitors’ activities can give you insight into what…

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Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media?

Link: Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media? “Forrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users.” Jay’s commentary on his interpretation of this new research is not what I would have expected. How about you? by Jay Baer (@jaybaer)

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6 Timely Tips for Twitter Success

Link: 6 Timely Tips for Twitter Success “New research from Sysomos shows that 92.4% of all retweets happen within the first hour after the tweet has been sent. This demonstrates that Twitter users are …” Many useful suggestions in this post, much of it backed by research and/or experience. by Jay Baer (@jaybaer)

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