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by Donna Talarico, Interactive Marketing Specialist

I don’t know about you, but I find a heck of a lot fascinating tweets about eCommerce. Every day I am presented with interesting links to articles and blog posts from people I follow in the industry. I can’t keep up with them all, so I started to favorite them so I can come back later. Then, it hit me.

The Idea

I borrowed this idea from a writing site I frequent. The editor of a popular writer’s magazine posts on the company blog the best writing-related tweets of the week. I follow some really informative eCommerce, Internet marketing, and general business experts on Twitter and find some really helpful nuggets. So, this new Solid Cactus blog feature will be like that. Roughly each week I’ll repost some of my favorite tweets of the week which will usually contain links to a great article.

Best eCommerce Tweets of the week I’ve Saved Up to Now

Okay, so I’m going back a few weeks for this intial post. I’ve been wanting to start this up for a while now so I don’t want these good ones I’ve saved to go unseen. (Note: tweets are not edited for grammar, spelling, etc. They are posted as is because that was the tweet!)

• GENERAL eCOMMERCE TWEETS

howzyat 37 things I want to see on a product page http://bit.ly/gGm2n

NMessier – Why we buy, online – a look at emotion and its role in online buying decisions; http://bit.ly/VXeEb

JBillingsley – Sign up 4 ur competitors emails. Monitor offers, frequency, strategy, etc. Adapt accordingly

• SOCIAL MEDIA & INTERNET MARKETING TWEETS

davidrwilson Reading Social Media’s Direct Influence on Search Engine Ranking http://is.gd/3FGh0

MikeLizun- Study: Twitter Breeds Brand Engagers (media post via paidcontent) http://bit.ly/O0jJB

ArikHanson – USA Today:Twitter users spend 66% more $ on Internet than nonTwitter users http://bit.ly/buAwC

DigitalWoman – Twitter Style Guide http://bit.ly/3MxuGu

DonnaAntoniadis – Social technographics help categorize social media consumers – http://shar.es/Zi0T

GetElastic - before you hit send…email checklist http://bit.ly/dy7Bx

• WEB DESIGN & USABILITY TWEETS
  

SarahKinney – 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines – http://tinyurl.com/yedejdm

• QUOTES, ADVICE & OBSERVATIONS

MattyCurry - Universal eCommerce truth. If you answer the questions your visitors have, with answers that appeal, then they will buy. If not, they won’t

Sitemarkers Include a blog on your ecommerce site. It helps add personality and currency to the site, and can assist SEO.

Finally, then there’s the retweeting. You can follow me on Twitter (@cactus_donna) as I always RT the posts I find most interesting. Please share any great tweets with me, too and I will credit you on this blog.