Top Tweets for (Last) Week

In case you haven’t heard, Twitter is kind of a big deal. In fact, it was officially the most popular word in the English language in 2009, beating out contenders like “Barack Obama,” “H1N1,” and “stimulus.” Twitter was built for microblogging, and has 20 million users publishing 140-character messages all day, every day.

Doba’s elite team of Education and Marketing Operatives scours Twitter and the rest of the web daily for the latest news, views, opinions and research related to online marketing and small business / start-up entrepreneurship. The best of the best, we package into our own “tweets” to share with our Twitter followers. Every Friday, here on the blog, I’ll share with you our most popular tweets from the previous week. Enjoy!

(Quick note: We do realize that today is Monday. Trust me, this post will happen on Fridays in the future)

Michael Gray, no slouch in SEO circles, lists out a number of concrete changes you can make to boost your shopping cart’s SEO value.

A few highlights from this one:

• Cyber Monday sales were 24% higher than Black Friday this year
• Cyber Monday items per order were 10% higher than Black Friday
• Basically, Cyber Monday is no longer Black Friday’s snot-nosed little brother

Ten quotes and ideas collected from owners, managers, entrepreneurs about how to do business this holiday season. Seriously, it’s worth a read.

To quote the article, they “map out a cheap and effective social media strategy.” It’s not going to be easy, but doing social media right is definitely, definitely worth it.

Doesn’t need a lot of elaboration. This article is exactly what it says it is.

Looks like all of our followers’ favorite Tweets lately have been lists of tips and tricks, techniques and methods for rocking the online retail world. Considering the goal is to make this online retail thing work, I guess that makes a lot of sense.

So this is just scratching the surface of Doba’s Twittering. If you want to get the rest of our tweets as they happen, feel free to join the hordes of Doba followers by visiting www.twitter.com/doba and clicking either the “Follow” or the “Join today!” link at the top.