The report from the New York Daily News about the England woman who showed off a whole lot more than her little yellow dress when she took a photo of it and uploaded the image to eBay.

The report said that the seller, Aimi Jones took a photo of her Asos Yellow Skater Dress (size 10), hanging from a closet door, and the mirror next to the dress caught a reflection of a young, beautiful English woman who is partially naked body.

 

As a social media marketer, we get busy to think of strategies we can bring into action for our client’s business. Do you think they are just enough? Changes are inevitable with social media because we are always looking for ways to leverage our business.

We need to keep up with new trends, social networks, feature announcements, changes to existing features on a daily basis. From very basic social media platforms, we are now seeing them jam-packed with the benefits we can get.

Have you ever bought something on eBay where all you got is the item?

Adding personal touch to the final phase of your eBay transaction as a seller is exceptional. A simple thank you would be very nice!

Put yourself in the shoes of your buyer. If you receive a personalized thank you note, you will get that warm and fuzzy feeling that the seller wants to do more business with you. You can even remember who the seller was.

Selling on eBay is not just about making money online but also building relationship. [click to tweet]

In social media, you just not dedicate yourself learning social media technologies – the applications, networks and platform that drive results but also most of your time. Companies and small businesses will be able to use these social media platforms because these tools are free or very affordable.

In order to be successful, other kind of resources must be dedicated which in the form of time and labor. Do you know how much time exactly? For many organizations, social media hasn’t become part of the operation yet. This leads to more and more work on every people’s desk.

This infographic shows that social media requires time investment to develop effective strategy or workflow. Here’s the catch – not all organizations have the same need, it is still depends on achieving the business goals.

The age of “Big Data” is touted as the next “big thing” in ecommerce. But what is “Big Data”. It refers to a huge set of data too complex to be handled by traditional database management tools. The data is being driven by new social networks, mobile devices, web analytics, ERP, or CRM databases where the value it produces can be turned into useful insights that can be help executives in decision-making on a day-to-day basis.

This infographic courtesy of Monetate explains structured vs semi-structured/unstructured data, enumerate the challenges and goals when using Big Data, and how to develop a big data game plan for retailers.

Hyper Alerts is a free service where you can receive email reports of posts and comments on your Facebook pages.

If you manage multiple Facebook pages for your clients, setting up alerts is an excellent way to track who’s saying, what, and where, so you can respond to comments in prompt manner.

It’s time for me to create an account at Hyper Alerts. The good thing about it is it does not consume much of your time — actually it takes only a minute to set up an account. And if you are using Google Alerts, the interface is pretty the same.

One way to promote articles published on your own blog is to share it on Facebook status updates. You can link to interesting articles and gain traffic to your site.

When I paste a link into the Facebook update, Facebook automatically get the article’s title and description as well as the thumbnail of the image.

Here’s the question now, do you just hit post and let Facebook decides to show the article’s title and description? If yes, there is a way to edit the title and description, I will show the steps. If no, I supposed you somehow know the process how to edit the title and description of an article you link to.