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With an ever-growing number of social media outlets, its becoming more and more confusing as to which networks marketers should be using to reach the right audience and what type of information should be shared. A few recent articles and studies may help shed some light on the trends of this ever changing medium.

Pinterest is the newest social media platform that presents added marketing opportunities for your brand and business. This new self-expression site encourages users to start conversations and trends by “pinning-up” their interests and images on a virtual bulletin board. With over 420 million page views to date, its popularity continues to rise since its inception in March 2010.

We hope you learned a lot from our last blog, "Social Media ROI Action Plan – Measuring Return." Though you now know how to track what you accomplish with social media marketing, you still need to know how much you've invested already.

We've talked about social media ROI and the importance of ROI before, and our readers have been asking for an action plan. So, here you go!

We are happy to announce that FiG will work with a promising BMX racer Eli Massey on website design, branding development, and social media marketing.

You may think you understand social media and that the rules are common sense but many companies are realizing social media is a battlefield. For a company of any size, when you enter the social media world, the competition becomes fierce. How do you win a battle like this? To start with, you need a strategy. To help you gain the advantage, FiG suggest your take into account these 4 important steps when building a social media strategy.

Most of us have grown up with Google over the last decade. For a long time, Google has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. Much of its growth has been organic, but recently this search giant seems to have had challenges to decide what to do next. Although the company has stretched its businesses across the web, from online search, email, social networking, web-based apps, and smart phone development, Google's revenue is still heavily dependent on search-related advertising.

In previous blog updates we have touched on the importance of social media and essentially the use of content. It all sounds wonderful and easy until it comes to writing or redefining your company's content. Most small and mid-sized companies struggle with this idea because content is a resource-intensive strategy and few businesses have those resources to generate a large quantity of content. Well we may have the answer for you small and mid-sized business owners in three simple steps: re-purpose, repackage, and recycle your content! Easy as one, two, and three!

New websites, Facebook, and Twitter are the components of a triple threat for FiG Advertising and Marketing. After a lot of hard work our new website is up and running for the world to see and even better, we are now on Facebook AND Twitter! We are paving the way and leading by example for our clients and pursuing the world on the Internet so check us out!