Honey Bee Buzz Marketing Blog

Great Viral Videos That Just Make You Crave What They Offer

Can I just say that Honda has the best viral ads?  From the Element crab’s “I peench, I peench!!” to the CR-V ad of chocolate-covered strawberries, they’re the best.  Short, simple, funny, memorable — the things you want to share with your friends.  Which is why we bring you these examples of fine viral video marketing from 2 different ad campaigns:

Why are these viral videos so, well, viral?

Because you just More »

The Market Theme – Tour

Here’s a paid alternative to WordPress eCommerce.  Sounds like

some of the speed bumps people hit with WPeC are addressed, including good support.  We have not checked it ourselves. Looks

like more of an out-of-the-box ecommerce solution.  Themes (the look and feel of a WordPress blog site) are included/built in, in addition to the shopping cart system.

Any Market Theme users out there?  What do you think of it?

The Market Theme – Tour.

Meebo Chat Center – Time Saver

Making good use of social marketing and their chat features but tired of scanning through multiple sites and trying to keep up?  Try Meebo.  It’s what  we would call a chat condenser application.  You register all your chat sites, for instance from Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, AIM, etc., and then go to the centralized Meebo location to chat with all of them.

Here’s a screenshot to give you an idea of how it works:

Meebo.com screenshot

As Meebo says, it’s free, there are no More »

VoxOx.com | Take Control

Looks like a centralizing tool for VOIP (like Vonnage or Skype (which we highly recommend), email, social networking (like Facebook, etc.), video calling, etc.

VoxOx.com | Take Control.

What do you think?  Have you tried VoxOx?

These types of online tools are great time and money savers and are extremely effective marketing and sales tools.  They are also great for intra-company communications, and for running a virtual team.

What do you use them for?  Which tools do you use?

eShop for WordPress

Create an ecommerce site quickly and relatively easily on WordPress with the eShop plugin by Rich Pedley at Quirm.net.  This is a viable competitor to Instinct’s WP eCommerce, but it does not have a donation setting/capability.  This is too bad, because it’s an otherwise great plugin, and a great way to get one’s online store up and running.  The benefit to having a donation setting is that people can pay for your services online, as you can with this blog.  Anybody who’s already doing business online or likes eBay probably already has a PayPal account, and making it super easy for them to pay you in a secure, reliable, and familiar environment.  For instance, one of our HoneyBeeBuzz Marketing clients is using our online shop to buy a banner ad we are designing for them.

Rich at eShop provides excellent support, which you can find in his WordPress plugins support forum.  This is in great contrast to the WPeC support forum which is full of frustrated people whose questions can languish unanswered for months.  Also in contrast, Rich seems to have a very positive, mature and constructive attitude.  WPeC is steadily getting better and better, however, both in terms of response time and style and the features are hard to beat.

eShop has the support of a number of key and highly respected WordPress players, including Mike Cherim.

Here are some sample eShops:

http://greenmethods.com/site/shop/

http://thecabinetofcuriosities.co.uk/shop/

Here are some sample WPeC shops:

HoneyBeeBuzz Marketing Services and Products

GreenBuyDesign Store

Do you have an online store already?  What shopping cart system are you using?  What types of products or services do you  sell?