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Source: Prestige Marketing, Inc.

"Marketers who threaten the Reddit community with spammy links and boring content will likely be destroyed, says Prestige Marketing. On the link-sharing site known as the 'Front Page of the Internet,' only the strong survive.

Reddit receives 2.5 billion page views per month, and thus any content that reaches the front page receives millions of views. The only way to do that without spending a lot of money is to get Reddit’s 34.9 million monthly unique visitors to 'vote up' your content.

Source: Visualy

"Each person uses his or her mobile phone differently; some of us use cell phones to shop online, buy movie tickets, check game scores, and email colleagues, while others buy the latest smartphones only to receive calls. Check out this infographic on typical mobile phone usage, and see how you compare to the average caller".

Source: the Social Times

"The decision to add a new network to your social strategy is never easy — each one takes time and resources to maintain. According to the makers of this infographic, Pinterest is a good one to add to the list.

With a high concentration of viral content (80 percent of pins are repins) and referral traffic that’s outpacing Twitter and Google+, the social curation site is already a proven traffic generator. The amount of traffic generated by Pinterest grew by 116 percent between January and August 2012.

But a previous study showed that despite the company’s growth, no Fortune 500 company CEOs were using Pinterest. (They weren’t entirely right about that. If you need inspiration, check out Cisco co-founder Sandy Lerner’s Pinterest boards for her organic farm, Ayrshire Farm.)

Domo and CEO.com assembled this handy guide to Pinterest for CEOs. It’s got statistics, best practices, and success stories all in one glance."

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Author: Isabelle Leichtman 

Surveys can be a great way to see what kind of changes or additions would holistically optimize your business.  For consumers, surveys provide direct communication through which they can express what’s important to them in order to keep them satisfied (and ultimately their business).  Similarly, surveys allow employees to give feedback on what helps them work efficiently as well as allowing them to offer their own ideas for the company’s inner workings. 

Author: Isabelle Leichtman 

It’s an event people of all ages around the world wait for every 4 years, the summer Olympic Games.  This year the games began in London, England on Friday, July 27 with coverage by NBC in the United States.  According to the Wall Street Journal, Comcast Corp.’s NBC Universal recorded that some 35.8 million viewers tuned into the first three nights of the Olympics.  As NBC states, this past weekend had the most viewers of any opening weekend for the summer Olympics with 5 million more viewers than 2008’s games in Beijing, China.  In addition, 11.4 million videos were watched on NBCOlympics.com this past Sunday (with this year being the first time NBC is streaming the games live on their website).

Author: Jillian Joseph

The arrival of cloud storage is changing not only how we share files personally, but also professionally.  Now the business world is likely to be even more shaken up seeing as on Monday, July 16, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer released a preview version of Office 2013 and its cloud-connected cousin, Office 365, at a media event in San Francisco. This is timed nicely with the upcoming launch of Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8, in October.  The company's next-generation office suite appears to be tightly focused on mobile devices, touchscreens, and the cloud.

All professionals have experienced that dreaded moment in their career when our precious electronics fail us. We can’t get our important presentation up on the screen, our internet connection is lost, or the printer suddenly stopped working while we’re on deadline. Before you reach for the phone and call your IT department or consultant, be your own IT guy or girl and try these simple steps: