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Three Things I?ve Learned Over the Past 2 Months
2008-06-05 18:05:00 You may have noticed that I haven’t been writing as much on this blog over the past couple months. That’s mostly due to us being extremely busy on some client projects and a personal project. In that time I’ve learned a few things about internet marketing that I’m going to share with you now. 1. Social media ... More About: Promotion , Link Building , Past , Things , Learned
The Rise of Casual Gaming
2008-05-30 15:55:00 Every month an estimated 200 million people play casual games, and the casual gaming industry is seeing a 20% increase in both audience and profits year after year. The Casual gaming market it expected to surpass $2 billion in 2008. Casual gaming gained popularity with games like Solitaire, Tetris and Bejeweled played on the PC and Nintendo video game system. The internet has now become the main source of distribution for casual games and social networks like Facebook are playing a major role in their rise in popularity and profitability. Casual games share a few basic characteristics; they offer simple gameplay and simple graphics that can be enjoyed in short burst like during coffee breaks or while on public transportation. More About: Gaming , Rise
Orphan Works Copyright Act of 2008
2008-05-14 01:47:00 I just received a disturbing email from Creative Public about the new Orphan ed Works Copyright law that is trying to be passed in congress. This law could hurt a lot of artists and designers, if passed. The following is from the Creative Public email I received and was written by Michael Durwin, Creative Director of ... More About: Business , Web Design
A New Way To Experience The News
2008-05-07 16:43:00 People like to consume their media in many different ways. When it comes to getting our daily dose of news, some people like to read their morning paper over breakfast, other people listen to the news on the drive to work, and many of us check the headlines online as soon as we get to work. MSNBC.com shows that they are aware of our diverse media habits, and they are offering us even more ways to experience the news via www.News Ware.msnbc.com. MSNBC.com has added Spectra, Newsblaster and Newscroller to their existing collection of podcasts, RSS feeds and mobile applications. More About: B News , Experience , The News
15% Off Coupon for TLA in May
2008-05-07 15:34:00 This is for all you sinners (link renters) out there. TLA is giving a 15% off discount in the month of May when you use coupon code may. Apparently this will give you 15% off your order for the life of your order. More About: Link Building , Coupon
Renting Domain Names Is A Bad Idea
2008-04-30 02:35:00 Over the past year I have purchased a few after market domain names. It amazes me how many times I am given the option to rent the domain name if I can’t afford to buy it. One domain I wanted to purchase had an asking price of $695 and a 1 year rental price of ... More About: Promotion , Domain , Domain Names , Idea , Renting
The Weekender: SEO Checklist
2008-04-25 22:23:00 Have you ever wondered how hard it will be to rank for certain keywords or keyword phrases? Try out SEO Chat’s Keyword Difficulty Check Tool. This tool gives you a percentage score that reflects how difficult it will be to get first page ranking for your keywords. The recently launched www.publicitywheel.com is a new concept for ...
Funy Video Friday: Awareness Test
2008-04-25 15:22:00 This weeks funny video is an awareness test from Transport For London. Its interesting what you miss when you’re trying to focus on one thing. Enjoy your Friday ! More About: Video , Funny Videos , Awareness , Test
Fiskars Cinema Series
2008-04-23 15:16:00 If you are looking for a great example of online video I recommend you check out the Fiskars Cinema Series . This series of three documentary style videos tells the story about a 360 year-old artisan enclave and "company town" called Fiskars Village. These videos are telling a story, it is obvious that these are promotional videos, but they exude passion and craft and do not feel like commercials. These videos remind me a lot of the TV version of "This American Life" and some of Hillman Curtis' artist series videos. These videos are presented on a flash heavy site with very little text. I would recommend that along with all this great video they include some text. This would improve their organic search results and give people who liked the videos, more information about the village. More About: Online Video
The Weekender: No-Brainer
2008-04-19 03:45:00 Peg Davis of Marketing Experience Blog discusses the rising popularity of “blended search“. She recommends that we all start optimizing our video and image assets to catch the wave. youTube just announced that it has paid out $1 million to it’s overlay ad partners. Details of the revenue sharing program have been kept ...
Funny Video Friday: Tech Bubble Music Video
2008-04-18 21:01:00 A few months back we posted the very funny Tech Bubble music video created by Richter Scales. With in a couple days it was taken off of youTube. Well, it’s back on youTube and we still think it’s pretty funny so we’re posting it again. Enjoy your Friday. More About: Video , Funny , Music , Music Video , Funny Videos
Accidental Branding and Trendspotting for the Next Decade
2008-04-15 18:30:00 One of the many perks to having a blog with a decent amount of traffic and the word ‘marketing’ in the title is that publishers send you books for free. In the last month I received Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri and 2011: Trendspotting For The Next Decade by Richard Laermer who coauthored Punk Marketing. ... More About: Reviews , Promotion
The Weekender: Watch The Masters Online
2008-04-12 23:46:00 Everyone’s favorite ex Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, along with Will Mayall and Kathryn Henkens have launched alltop.com. The site is an aggregate of stories from “all the top” sites on the web. I recommend checking out the Social Media, Design and SEO pages. Paul McEnany of hee-hawmarketing wrote an insightful article on brand building on the ... More About: Watch , Online , Masters , The Masters
Monetize Your Online Video With Viddler
2008-04-09 20:45:00 f you want to reach a large audience with your online videos, it is always a good idea to post your video to several video sharing sites. Posting you video to youTube is a no brainer, but with over 300 other video sharing sites to choose from, where do you begin? I recommend posting your videos regularly to 5-10 different sites, and before you decide on which sites best suit your brand of video you may want to start posting on 20-30 sites and narrow them down to the top 10 after a couple months of testing. If you are serious about online video, and plan on producing a lot of video and building an audience. You should also factor in your ability to monetize your videos on each site. One video sharing site I recommend you consider is... More About: Video , Online Video , Online , Monetize
15% Off Coupon for Text Link Ads
2008-04-07 19:30:00 Just got an email from TLA with a coupon code for 15% off through the month of April. If you buy links from TLA, use coupon code april at checkout. Cheers! More About: Link Building , Link , Text , Coupon , Text Link Ads
Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million
2008-04-07 17:43:00 Chris Clark recently sold pizza.com for $2.6 million. He originally paid $20 for the url. It looks like Chris had been trying to monetize the site through Google ads and an Amazon store for pizza recipe books. Unfortunately the big pizza companies like Pizza Hut, Dominoes Pizza and Papa Johns Pizza don’t have affiliate programs. If ... More About: Other , Million
The Weekender: Google Come To Life
2008-04-04 23:45:00 Steve Bradley over at Small Business Newz uses two seemingly low budget online videos as examples of how you can use video to effectively market yourself online. Speaking of low budget videos, here are a couple of google related viral videos from Germany. One old and one new. In 2006, Aram Bartholl built a life size ... More About: Google , Life
Funny Video Friday: Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
2008-04-04 15:35:00 This week’s funny video is truly very funny. Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator was a fictional energy drink from the movie Idiocracy which was written and directed by Mike Judge who also created Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill. In the movie Idiocracy, Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator made water redundant because of it’s popularity which ... More About: Video , Funny , Funny Videos , Funny Video , Friday
Ever Heard of QQ.com?
2008-04-02 16:38:00 When we think of successful social networks we (North Americans) immediately think of MySpace and Facebook. But have you ever heard of Tencent.com or their social network brand QQ.com? In 2007 they made 523 million USD in revenues, nearly 4x what Facebook made during that same period. Tencent's user base has grown to 300 million active IM users, and 741 million users in total. Tencent is more than just a social networking platform. Since developing an IM application 9 years ago, they have developed various online outlets including a web portal, online game, blog and wireless portal. As Tencent and QQ's user base keeps expanding, they are quickly becoming an everyday tool for the Chinese. Many Chinese companies are even using QQ to communicate with their clients. Another reason for Tencent's and QQs success is... More About: B News
7 Questions With Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com
2008-03-31 04:08:00 Just over a week ago Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com agreed to do an interview with us. We thought it might be nice for you, our loyal readers and participaters (new word I just made up) in this blog to ask him any questions you had relating to SEO. Below are the seven questions and answers ... More About: Interviews , Questions
The Weekender: Subliminal Insight
2008-03-28 20:52:00 A subliminal message study by Duke University found that we are influenced by branding even when we are exposed to a logo for only 30 milliseconds (a subliminal flash that was can not actually see). Ohio based Director of Digital Marketing, Matt Dickman, gave a speech last Monday to the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association and to ... More About: Insight
Funny Video Friday: Ernie the Klepto Starburst Commercial
2008-03-28 17:26:00 This weeks funny video is a Starburst commercial featuring Ernie the kleptomaniac. I Hope you don’t run into Ernie this weekend. “I gotta go…” More About: Video , Funny , Commercial , Funny Videos , Funny Video
Ask Aaron Wall Anything You Want!
2008-03-24 15:24:00 Aaron Wall of SEO Book has been kind enough to do an interview with us. Instead of me asking him questions, I thought it might be nice for you to be able to ask him whatever you wanted about SEO. Submit your questions for Aaron Wall on our contact form. You have until the end of ... More About: B News , Aaron
The Weekender: 1/4 of all Web Users Cannot Perform a Simple Google Search
2008-03-21 21:18:00 Wordpot recently updated its free online keyword research tool. The update includes a monthly keyword trend chart (I love how it animates), synonyms, related and associated words and the new keyword basket. The two best things about Wordpot, is that it’s free and its fast. Today youTube announced the 12 winners of the 2007 youTube Video ... More About: Google , Search , Google Search , Simple , Users
Funny Video Friday: SNL Taco Town Skit
2008-03-21 13:56:00 Ian McFadyen sent me this weeks funny video. Saturday Night Live created a very funny skit spoofing the Taco Bell Double Decker Taco. SNL created their own masterpiece of a taco: A crunchy all beef taco smothered in nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato, and special Southwestern sauce; wrapped in a soft flour tortilla with a layer ... More About: Video , Funny , Funny Videos , Funny Video , Friday
Real Time Twitter Search With Tweetscan
2008-03-19 08:15:00 If you're like me and you read a lot of blogs and listen to a lot of podcasts then you have probably noticed that there has been a lot of discussions going on about Twitter . Twitter is quickly establishing itself as an alternative communication medium that may soon become as common as email, instant messaging and blogging. Twitter was designed as a broadcast medium that makes it easy get short text messages out to friends and fans. All you have to do is type a short message, and anyone who is watching your Twitter feed will immediately get the message. If you want to have a quick peek at what Twitter is all about I recommend trying out Tweetscan. Tweetscan is a search tool, that gives you real time access to public Twitter streams... More About: Reviews , Time , Search , Real
Why Web Hosting Is So Very Important
2008-03-17 14:51:00 One of my friends has close to 20 websites hosted on a reseller account at eHostpros. Their biggest site, the one that makes them the most money gets over 2000 visitors a day and any interruption in hosting could really hurt their business. It’s a good thing that eHostpros uses secure servers, or so their ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting
The Weekender: Finding Your 1000 True Fans
2008-03-15 17:30:00 I’ve read many times that one trick to getting traffic from Yahoo is by participating in Yahoo Answers, answering questions that are relevant to your niche, then linking back to your site. Duncan Carver of Internet Marketing Today has developed a new piece of software called Answer Sniper that will alert you in near real ... More About: Fans , True
Funny Video Friday: Jackie Moon sells Old Spice Deodorant
2008-03-14 15:02:00 This weeks funny video is a collection of all 8 Old Spice Deodorant commercials featuring Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) from the movie Semi Pro. Some of the commercials are pretty funny, others a little less funny. You gotta cut Will some slack. He had to do 8 commercials. Enjoy your friday! Old Spice Deodorant Commercials: More About: Video , Funny , Funny Videos , Funny Video
Internet Marketing With Adobe Products
More articles from this author:2008-03-12 20:43:00 Todays post is not necessarily about endorsing one companies line of products, but more importantly how internet marketers can use a variety of products and mediums to enhance their internet marketing. Using design, photography, and video can significantly increase the effectiveness of an online marketing campaign. And now that Google and the other major search engines are embracing universal search, both images and video will begin to have a greater impact on search engine optimization. Adobe was already a leader in design and photography applications, but when they bought Macromedia in 2005, and acquired Flash, Dreamweaver, Director and Fireworks, they instantly became the leading provider of website creation applications as well. Becoming familiar with the different tools that are available can be useful to online marketers, even if you never plan to be hands on with them yourself. More About: Marketing , Internet , Reviews , Products 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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