Pinterest is a newish entrant to the social media scene, providing place where you can ‘pin’ images and content you find online that you like for a particular reason.

Evidence is now suggesting that Pinterest is driving more traffic referrals to websites than Twitter, and the audience is up to 70% female.

People use Pinterest as a visual form of bookmarking, grouping together related types of content, for example someone planning on building a home might pin anything they would like to see in the home from interior design features to furniture, kitchen appliances and artwork.

Designers use the site to keep track of ideas and inspirational images or resources.

So how does it work for business?



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So 2012 has rolled over on the calendar – and now that everyone is back at work it’s time to review your company website and make sure everything is up to date and ready for the year ahead. This might also be a good time to look at a few of the following:

  • Social Media: Are all your social media icons up to date? With the speed of change in social channels and the addition of Google + it is likely you haven’t updated your sharing icons. Do you have all the necessary “follow us on” buttons? If not, you can add the individual buttons, or if you are running a WordPress blog, you may wish to update or find a new social media sharing plugin.

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This month’s post from the HL sales team is a bit more of a brag post than anything else but it does dovetail nicely into researching global marketing trends and more specifically what is happening across the world in Social Media.

I am lucky enough to be travelling to South America this month. The first part of the trip is for a hockey tournament (the serious side) and the second part is tripping around and experiencing local culture (the fun, relaxing, party side).


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With the recent launch of Apple’s new iCloud service, cloud computing has once again come under the spotlight.

If you have multiple pieces of technology that can access the web, chances are you have come across the concept of cloud based data storage, or “cloud computing” before today. But what is the “cloud”, exactly? And why should I care?
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Most people don’t know exactly how much Google can actually do for you. Here are some advanced Google search tips and tricks to help you do other things like convert currencies and measurements – not just search for info.

Get the Time

To see what time it is anywhere in the world, search time and the city or country.

Search: time auckland

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Do you even know what it is? If your business has any kind of localised customer or client base, then you really need to be attending to location based marketing services that will help your business get found quickly and easily.

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I was given the job to find a venue for our staff Christmas party this year on a limited budget. It has proved very difficult this year with so many venues being damaged during the Canterbury earthquakes. I turned to Google and tried a series of searches; venues for hire in Christchurch; BYO venues for hire in Christchurch.


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One of the more entertaining parts of moderating a blog is occasionally reviewing the spam posts that get collected by the spam protection plugin, Akismet.


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We were invited recently to a friend’s wedding in Hokitika. As it was on a Saturday we decided to spend the Friday night in Franz Josef.

West Coast Wedding
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In the process of writing content for the hairyLemon website you are currently visiting, it occurred to us that it might be interested to actually record something of the process of getting us to the point of publishing the current online incarnation of www.hairylemon.co.nz

hairylemon 2001

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