According to Shareaholic, a provider of social sharing buttons and widgets with more than 200,000 publishers using its tools, Pinterest is now sending more traffic than Yahoo search.

We've blogged about Pinterest, and are self-proclaimed Pinterest addicts! Are you using Pinterest to drive traffic to your website? If not, you may want to start!

The office is all a buzz over the new Spring 2013 Pantone Color Report. These kind of trend reports help Garden Media identify hot products and ideas to add to our annual garden trends report.

And good news for the lawn and garden industry, according to Pantone, greens will be a hot color for spring 2013. Greens will act as a neutral color in everything from fashion to home decor. 

From Clint Eastwood’s now infamous chair speech to Bill Clinton’s awe-inspiring delivery, both parties’ conventions have been dominating the prime media spot for the past two weeks.

Now that’s some good PR...but mistakes have been made as well.

We, at Garden Media, know we can learn much from the blunders and triumphs of the most planned, carefully calculated events of the year.

Surprise! LinkedIn Company Pages are about to get a little design makeover, the social network announced on its blog today.

Here at Garden Media we talk a lot about garden marketing and public relations.  We hope it helps clients, potential clients and anyone looking for a PR firm understand the science and technique behind what we do.

I recently came across this post from Henson Consulting about five qualities that make a potential firm a great fit for your lawn and garden business.

Garden Media trend spotters are constantly searching for the latest and greates garden trends- we search everything from fashion and food to outdoor living and landscape design.

Today is the first day of Inbound 2012 and with 2,500 other marketers attending, I am stoked to learn some new tricks for our Garden Media bag. 

Having a LinkedIn account, not only for yourself, but also for a business in the lawn and garden industry is key in today’s garden market!

Essentially the professional’s Facebook, LinkedIn is known for its ability to connect and showcase companies, associations, garden centers and individuals across the globe with 160 million members and counting.

In our free e-book "Networking 101: Garden Marketing Tips and Tricks for Using LinkedIn," companies in the lawn and garden industry can learn how to create personal and company profiles, tips for getting started, and the extra features LinkedIn offers to extend business brands and engage with key audiences.

How can Social Media Help Grow Your Garden Business? According to a recent Garden Writers Association report:  "More consumers are turning to social media sites and YouTube for gardening information, both showing an increase of 3-5% from last year." 

For your company, the question is not, "should I use social media?' But "what is my social media plan?"

I recently saw a post on the Facebook group for garden centers asking, "How do I write a mission statement?" WOW! This is a tough question and a hard task.