Marchex, a company out of Seattle Washington, is a call advertising and analyzing company, which caters to small businesses to help them in marketing and sales. Where are you listed? Have you optimized your listing exposure? How accurate is the information? Those are questions Marchex helps answer. They provide analytics that can compare your business to […]
Branding & Marketing
Demand Studios and the Impact from Google’s Algorithm Change
There seems to be some serious back-and-forth about the state of Demand Studios since the Google algorithm alteration. Initial impact indicated that they may have lost ground on the search driven traffic of some of their sites. Citing eHow.com as one of the locations where the change may have triggered a down-turn, Demand Studios initial […]
Google Tags Calls it Quits
It seems as if April 29th will be the last day of existence for Google Tags. If you have ever used Google Maps or Places, you have likely seen the red tags that represent an ad campaign launched by Google in a testing phase about a year ago. This marketing attempt was created to allow […]
Can Virtual Salespeople Increase the Bottom Line?
With the rise of digital media communications such as video advertising and remote access viewing, another element that has been showing promise for small and large businesses alike is the use of speaking avatars, or virtual spokes models. SitePal is one of the websites taking advantage of the benefits of speaking avatars for business and […]
Loopt: A Social Location Tool
Let’s say you step out of class or a business meeting or a long day at work, and you wonder; where are my friends right now and what are they up to? What fun activity am I missing? Loopt, a mobile application, helps you see a clear picture of your social circle, without making a […]
Meetup: Social Networking On & Off the Web
Meetup is a social gathering site that helps to organize groups for local events, interest, and shared educational opportunities. Meetup’s major goal is to encourage people to understand that they can change their world, indeed our whole world, by organizing into groups that can be powerful enough to make great differences. Who Uses Meetup? Ranked […]
Online Ad Spending Expected to Increase
The online advertising industry hit a new high in 2010 with ad revenue topping the 26 billion dollar mark. After a falling in 2009, performance based-spending on forms of search advertising and digital display ads began to lead the way. The Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that online ad revenue increased by around 15% to the […]
Social Media for the Big Business Boys: DELL, IBM, Coca-Cola
While in recent days small businesses have found themselves caught up in the world of social media and the prospects it can bring directly to their products or services, big business certainly has a brief history of their own in utilizing social media formats for marketing purposes. So which companies are utilizing social medias these […]
GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and ShowMyPc
Remote viewing or remote connections have been an imperative part of the technical support world for many years. However, in more recent years, developers finally found other great formats for remote connection that also has plenty of benefits. Web Meetings and Conferences Webinars Web Training Along with other useful aspects, these are some of the […]
Writing a Great Press Release
Press Releases are a crucial part of marketing, in fact they are one of the few traditional marketing tools that have flourished in the new media or Digital Brand Age. There are six major types of press releases. General News Event Launch Staff or Executive Announcement Expert Positioning Product Each of these press releases may […]