Facebook offers businesses the ability to have a functioning online retail storefront incorporated into their fan pages. The idea of making shopping a social experience sounded good and seemed like the perfect opportunity for businesses to convert their followers into paying customers.

How important is mobile marketing in your B2B strategy? According to MarketingSherpa, businesses are at the forefront of smartphone adoption, yet less than half of B2B marketers are embracing mobile.

In our last post, B2B Mobile Marketing and Social Media Tactics: Part 1, we introduced a few strategies to help you make the most of your B2B mobile marketing campaign. We gave tips on how to reach people at all stages of the buying process, how to drive traffic online, and why you need to consider the privacy of your users.

BCAMA Marketline Article – September 21, 2012. Over the last decade ecommerce has exploded from just a few success stories and a lot of failures to a vast opportunity for businesses to expand markets and drive new sales.

It is now possible to predict the likelihood of whether or not content will become popular if it is shared on Twitter, based on a new HP Labs White Paper.

When Pinterest first launched in March of 2010, it was dismissed as a girly scrapbook for wedding gowns, cupcakes and all things DIY. But over the last few months, Pinterest has become a hot social network with over 16 million users. According to Compete.com, Pinterest saw a 155% increase in visitors from December 2011 to January 2012.

The future of ecommerce looks bright, according to a recent report from Forrester Research. Despite a gloomy economy, Americans are spending more than ever online and show no signs of slowing down.

Unfriended. Unfollowed. Unsubscribed. Even if you aren’t the sensitive type, social media rejection hurts. It’s unsettling to see our numbers drop, but it’s even more unsettling to not know why.

Google has just unleashed a search engine overhaul that promises to help users discover new information quickly and easily.

Google search is about to get a whole lot more intuitive. Over the next few months, you’ll begin to see more detailed and direct search results that will make it easier than ever to find what you’re looking for.

By Richard Nosek, Director of Marketing. If you use Google.com, you’ve probably noticed a little something called Google Search Plus Your World. While you are signed into your Google+ account, Google not only searches the world wide web, but also your Google+ universe.

We here at Graphically Speaking can’t believe another year has come and gone. 2013 has been an exciting year and we look forward to what 2014 will bring.

The world of interactive web design is extremely fluid and constantly changing, just like the industry it lives in. What’s considered “good design” fluctuates from year to year to keep up with changing technologies and user expectations.

With the rapidly evolving industry of web development it is essential to understand the ways in which the Web is advancing in order to ensure continued relevance for your website. With this in mind, here is the first of two important web trends for this year.

Unisource has awarded Canfor with the Uvu National Design and Print Excellence Award for the best Annual Report at this year’s first annual event.

Two Graphically Speaking websites have been selected as finalists for the Top Sitefinity Website of 2013. Finalists are recognized based on their creativity, design and user experience. Ocean Brands is nominated for Best Design and Teradici for the Technology category.

This is part two of our content marketing series. Read last week’s post, “How to Create a Content Strategy.”

Content marketing has been in the marketing spotlight for the last year, and it shows no signs of going away any time soon. Everyone wants to do it, but not everyone knows how to do it effectively.

In our content marketing series we’ve already learned how to create a content strategy and how to brainstorm content ideas. This week we’re concentrating on how to create seo-friendly content for your blog and social channels.

In September 2014, Apple unveiled its next great gadget, the Apple Watch, which is poised to dominate the lukewarm smart watch market. Although brands like Samsung, MOTA, and others have already released their SmartWatch versions, the Apple Watch will do what others can’t: impact local SEO.