In response to Emmett: What do you think led to Gap losing its customer base? Do you think the company will ever be as popular as it once was?

I feel like Gap has lacked in its ways of advertising the past few years. I know growing up I tended to shop at Gap a lot, but I feel like they just never have good sales or products anymore. They aren’t the same company that they used to be. Shopping at Gap used to be a big trend, but its slowly decreased. Their clothes tend to be a little overpriced for the quality of the clothes, and people are trying to save money now a days.

What ways do you think that Gap can come back and become a popular store again?

How to best use Pinterest to market your company

Recently Pinterest has become a very popular website. It has a significant opportunity to share your company’s products and ideas with an extremely large audience. Pinterest lets users “pin” images to their pinboards that they create. Users that follow them are then allowed to “repin” those images which makes content allowed to be very easily shared. These are three ways to determine if Pinterest will help you market your company.

1.    Determine whether Pinterest is a good match for your company.

2.    Avoid a hard sell.

3.    Reclaim link opportunities.

Do you have a Pinterest account? Do you use it to actually buy products or just browse the web?