What If You Had to Pay For Social Media?

No surprise: Blogs, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly popular with moms, as they share experiences and information on all kinds of subjects.

According to a recent Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA) survey conducted by BIGresearch, women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook (60.3%), MySpace (42.4%) and Twitter (16.5%) than average adults (50.2%, [...]

Marketing to Women on Facebook

What to do and what not to do when marketing to women was a popular subject last week, with major posts on the subject appearing, among other places, on Mashable. Among the many points made, there were a few that I thought were particularly worth repeating:

From 10 Musts for Marketing to Women on Facebook:

“Create [...]

Moms, College Students + Technology: Study

Millennial Mom 101, a new study by Mr Youth and RepNation Media, compares moms’ and college students’ use of social media and finds that the two groups are similar in 4 key ways:

They multitask with multiple technologies. Both groups view technology as a way to easily integrate all the different aspects of their lives. Moms see technology as a [...]

Addicted to the Internet

 Moms, are you addicted to the Internet?

What with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the continuing expansion of mom social networking sites,  it can be easy to get caught up in the wild world of the Web. In a recent Motherlode post, Lisa Belkin explored the relationship between moms, specifically new moms, and internet [...]

Twitter Talk

Big thanks to the online newsletter, Engage: Moms, for running my article about marketing to moms via Twitter, earlier today. For Mom Market Trends readers, here’s a copy of the story:

It seems that in the past month or so alone – with headlines about The Real Shaq, Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central critique, addicted-to-it admissions [...]

Social Success

More people globally now use social networks/blogs than email – 66.8% vs. 65.1%, according to a study released last week by market research firm Nielsen. This means that two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, categories that now account for almost 10% of all Internet time. Social networks and blogs [...]