I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to share part of our digital marketing story at Pink Cake Box with Katherine Duncan of Entreprenuer Magazine.

From the article:

Specialty bakery Pink Cake Box in Denville, N.J., jumped into digital marketing as soon as it opened for business in 2005 by focusing on its site and blog. “We saw it as a way to establish ourselves as an authority and not just display our cakes in the gallery like the competition did,” says marketing director Jesse Heap. “We built a site that’s updated on a frequent basis, has a blog, interacts with our customers, even provides education.” The effort paid off: Pink Cake Box was profitable after one year.

Read more at http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228652#ixzz2l3NY8nTX

Jeff Ente from Who’s Blogging What, wrote a post on Mashable about the new Facebook Fan Pages iframe capabilities. He was completely on mark - this is a SIGNIFICANT enhancement that has HUGE potential for marketing on Facebook.

One of the things I spoke about in Social Media Marketing for Dummies was the power of syndication within the digital space. Syndication enables small businesses to re-purpose content across multiple channels to engage users in a consistent manner without have to create entirely new content. We use WordPress as our hub for syndicating information out to various channels.

For Pink Cake Box, we have employed this strategy across many of our channels and with the introduction of iFrames for facebook fan pages we took advantage of this on our facebook fan page.

We created a facebook application that pulls content from our wordpress site and repurposes that content in a format that fits within the confines of facebooks design parameters. The page allows users to interact by leveraging our search feature and displays our most recent cakes and most popular cakes.

This enables us to create a dynamic and fresh facebook page that is automatically updated whenever our wordpress site is updated.

This is just the first step and as Jeff states, there are further opportunities to personalize the experience for facebook users. I’m very excited about this new feature and look forward to seeing more innovations in this space.

Social Media Marketing All-in-One for Dummies is finally shipping! In it you’ll find a case study on Pink Cake Box along with some additional material I helped provide for their social sharing chapter and social media strategy chapters. Thanks to Jan Zimmerman and Diane Martin from Watermelon Mountain Web Marketing for the opportunity to contribute to this book.

Here’s an excerpt from the case study:

Pink Cake Box, at PinkCakeBox.com, bakes spectacular cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for special occasions such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, birthdays, baby showers, and bridal showers. Its cakes have been featured in Modern Bride, People, Elegant Bride, The Knot, a Martha Stewart TV special, and two of TLC’s Ultimate Cake-Off competitions. It recently won one of them with their Legoland Birthday cake. Pink Cake Box typically delivers within 100 miles of its Denville, New Jersey, storefront, but ships cookies nationally.