As I pull data for clients this month (and my websites) I have noticed a trend. Over the last 3 months I’ve seen the quality of traffic increase to almost triple the amount.

Many of my clients are starting to use social media and they are beginning to see the payoff. More quality traffic to their websites & blogs.

Here are some numbers from one of my own websites:

LinkedIn traffic has increased by 320%, time spent on site up 224% and bounce rate has gone down 34% over the past three months. Those are amazing numbers!

Facebook traffic has gone up as well, but not as much as LinkedIN.

Many businesses I know have seen great numbers coming from both LinkedIn and Facebook. Is your business seeing the same thing?

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Spam I have started to see on LinkedIn

by dmcsorley on July 28, 2010

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed some strange emails coming via LinkedIn for people looking to connect. I wanted to pass along this information and see if anyone else is seeing the same thing.

Here is what I have seen over the last 2 weeks:

“Bob Jones” has indicated you are a Colleague at college:
I have seen about 5 of these over the past few weeks. Another one is people looking to connect because we worked together at Xerox, Kodak (for me) or somewhere else. When looking through their profile it’s obvious that we never worked together and they may have never worked for that company.

Have you noticed any of these messages over the past few months? I’d love to hear your feedback.

Vinny D’s stance, just say no to spam!

Say no to SPAM on LinkedIN

Say no to SPAM on LinkedIN

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On vacation: Do you check your email or social media accounts?

July 22, 2010

I asked this same question last year and I wanted to see if this has changed for you with the addition of the iPad and other devices. When you go on vacation, do you check your email and / or social media tools or do you take a break from these applications? For me, when [...]

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Five changes I would suggest to LinkedIN…

July 15, 2010

I have been on the subject of LinkedIN for the past few postings, so I thought why not talk about 5 changes / suggestions that I would make to LinkedIN.
5. Applications – There are so many (really just a few), but how do I use them. I found the application “Company Buzz,” but I would [...]

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LinkedIN recommendations by Vinny D

July 9, 2010

Over the past couple of months, I’ve read some great articles about how you should use Twitter and Facebook. The one thing that many of the articles have not included is LinkedIn. If you are a regular read, you know I’ve spent some time on LinkedIn and wanted to give you my top five pointers [...]

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Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

July 7, 2010

A few weeks ago, I decided to pick-up the book, “Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose” by Tony Hsieh and I can tell you this, I’m very glad I did.
This book, by far, is the best book I have read in awhile. This book rocks! Tony goes through his own history, the [...]

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New features on LinkedIN!

July 1, 2010

The past few weeks I have talked a lot about Facebook and not as much about LinkedIn. I feel like I have left out one of my favorite tools for the past few months and thought that I would write about some of the new features within LinkedIn.
If you haven’t been on LinkedIN in awhile [...]

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What would we do without social media?

June 16, 2010

First I would like to say sorry for the delay. I had some major issues with our puppy over the past two weeks. She is doing better now.
So, I wanted to talk about something that I was thinking about over the weekend. What would we do without social media? We all know that some of [...]

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A year later, another look at Home Depot and Lowes….

May 28, 2010

Well, it’s that time again, Memorial Day weekend is here and I thought I would take another look at how Home Depot and Lowe’s are doing via Social Media/Twitter. Here’s the post from last year.
First, let’s compare how many are following each Twitter account:
Home Depot has 22, 350 followers and is following 21, 022.
Lowe’s has [...]

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Companies using social media….

May 21, 2010

So, I have been talking a lot in the past few weeks about Facebook and I thought I would change up the conversation a bit. Over the past week or two, we have been hearing about Facebook and the privacy issues, so I thought I would write this week about Twitter and how some companies [...]

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