Wanda's Book World » good http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com Supporting Southern Indie Booksellers with shameless acts of everyday promotion Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:45:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Vimeo, CrushIt! & GaryVee — all excellent resources http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/12/vimeo-crushit-garyvee-all-excellent-resources/ http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/12/vimeo-crushit-garyvee-all-excellent-resources/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:41:47 +0000 Wanda http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/?p=1025

Crush It! with Gary Vaynerchuk from Nicki Leone on Vimeo.

Hear Gary Vaynerchuk on indies, silliness, social media, Web2.0, & more.

]]> http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/12/vimeo-crushit-garyvee-all-excellent-resources/feed/ 0 Southern Social Networking Summit a HIT! http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/08/southern-social-networking-summit-a-hit/ http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/08/southern-social-networking-summit-a-hit/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:06:08 +0000 Wanda http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/?p=1013 I’m back from the Southern Social Networking Summit in Greenville, SC.  It was an exhausting & exhilarating two days.  I want you to know that I am busy compiling the results of everyone’s efforts.  I have nearly 40 oversized pages of notes taken by the break-out groups that I am organizing and will be posting over the next week in this blog.  So many people have written blog posts, posted videos & photos, twittered and facebooked, and I want to take the time to thank everyone.  And I want to share these links with you.  The video clips include testimonials and a word from Gary Vaynerchuk.

Video Clips (posted by Trey Pennington)

Consuming Books Blog Post

Novel Thoughts

Photos (taken by Curtis Rogers from the SC State Library)

#ssns twitter feed

]]> http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2010/01/08/southern-social-networking-summit-a-hit/feed/ 2 SIBA Holiday Catalog Consumer Survey Results to Date http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2008/01/17/siba-holiday-catalog-consumer-survey-results-to-date/ http://www.wanda.sibaweb.com/2008/01/17/siba-holiday-catalog-consumer-survey-results-to-date/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:38:28 +0000 Wanda http://www.sibaweb.com/wanda/?p=178 Holiday Survey Results as of 1/17/2008 – we had 728 consumers respond to the survey placed in the Winter Holiday Catalog…that is a nearly 6% return rate

70% (down 3% from last year) of consumers say that the make a distinction between local retailers and corporate chains when making buying decisions.

41% (up 5% from last year) of consumers knew that local retailers contributed up to three times more revenue to their communities than corporate chains.

A whopping 89% (up 2% from last year) claimed that knowing that local retailers contributed more to their communities would influence their buying decisions.

Nearly 20% of the consumers who claimed to make no distinction between local retailers and corporate chains then indicated that the information that local retailers contribute up to three times more revenue than their corporate counterparts would indeed influence their buying decisions. 

While only 8% (down 2% from last year) had visited the Authors ‘Round The South site, 80% (same as last year) of consumers indicated they would visit the ARTS site in the future…

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