CRM Update – Apr 23 : 12:50 pm

Are you looking for creative ideas to drive Pinterest traffic to your site?If you’re wondering just how effective a great image can be in driving traffic to your website, read on…Since the launch of Pinterest, bloggers and website owners have been amazed to see just how much traffic this social photo-sharing platform can generate for a site or particular post.The power of Pinterest comes IF the image on the page or post is a real attention-grabber; in other words, “pinnable.”So how do you create images that tell a story and intrigue the viewer, all in the split second they take to glance at it?The better the image the greater the pins…

Here at The Consumerist, we have a long-standing anti-penny stance, but we’re somewhat in favor of the gold-colored dollar coins. They’re shiny! The Sacagawea ones have a woman on them! They save the government money! Except a new Government Accountability Office report mentions something interesting that we haven’t discussed here before. Just replacing more fragile dollar bills with durable coins doesn’t save any money at all. Minting and distributing all of those coins costs a lot…

Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within.When we entrepreneurs talk about “the dream,” we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery. We are talking about the things that really matter to us and what we are willing to do to make our dream a reality. It’s one thing to be a visionary and have a creative idea that you’re really passionate about, and another to have an idea that’s also practical and strategic…

With the northern hemisphere of the good earth in the full bloom of spring, social media, tech and all things digital were blooming all weekend at the same time. Count the 49 ways with our Mashable Weekend Recap.
While you were out enjoying the renewal of planet Earth, we were following the Earth Day festivities here at Mashable, and if you take a look at our lengthy list below, you’ll notice quite a few examples of the festivities going on across the planet.
Earth Day was certainly not the only thing going on during this rather leisurely but still engaging weekend…

15 Ways to Drive Shoppers With Social Media
Social media sells? Many marketers focus their social media efforts on building brand and attracting new prospects since they can’t figure out how to make the connection to sales. The bottom line is that social media can drive sales for your product. It depends how you use it and how you’ve set up your own website and analytics to track the results.
Not sure how to use social media to drive sales? Here are fifteen social media tactics with examples you can adapt for your business…

When reading marketing articles that walk the reader through steps of client culture analysis, it is not uncommon to see the term SWOT Analysis thrown around. Not as common, but not unheard of, you’ll even see more advanced articles that mention the 5C Analysis method. Going even deeper and more rare, (it’s actually almost as rare as seeing a Unicorn take a crap in your backyard) is seeing an article that talks about Porter’s Five Forces Analysis.
Any article that I read that so much as mentions Porter’s Five Forces, let alone explains them, already gains street cred in my book…

LG has announced its glasses-free 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D Max, is coming to select European markets.
The device sports a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 4.3-inch 3D WVGA display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 and two 5-megapixel cameras on the back (for 3D photo and video recording) as well as VGA camera on the front.
It’s based on Android 2.3 and has 1 GB of internal memory and 8 GB of storage, further expandable via MicroSD cards.
As far as unique features go, the Optimus 3D Max has several — for example, a 3D hot key on the side of the device makes it easy to switch between 3D and 2D mode…

The self-help industry is the latest target for Old Spice‘s ever-evolving ad campaign as a new spokesman for the brand gets so confident that he dumps Heather Graham.
The Hangover star makes a cameo in the Procter & Gamble brand’s new ad that shows a guy getting buff and cultivated by listening to a self-help cassette that he clips to his belt (in the shape of an Old Spice antiperspirant package, of course.)
The cassette’s message leads him to win a race against horses, drive an “environmentally friendly sports sedan” and end his relationship with Graham…

College students: Do you want the newest commercial for ESPN‘s wildly popular College GameDay football show to be shot on your campus? If so, you’d better start getting organized on the social web.
ESPN launched a social campaign on Monday for fans to vote for the location of a summer ad shoot for the college football season staple of highlights and analysis. More than 120 colleges and universities are eligible for voting. Fans can vote using the contest’s Facebook app, or via the GameDayVote…

The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right.A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the “best of the best” tend to share the following eight core beliefs.1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield.Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They build huge armies of “troops” to order about, demonize competitors as “enemies,” and treat customers as “territory” to be conquered…