Corporate Blogging at its Best
Posted in Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing Tips on May 5th, 2010
GoDaddy is under fire this week, and not for its racy ad campaigns featuring Danika Patrick. A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Federal courts of both Phoenix and Arkansas. The lawsuit is in regard to the web hosting company’s practice of featuring PPC ads on placement pages. What are placement pages, you [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips, Social Media News on Apr 29th, 2010
Joy Victory wrote an article on the official WordPress blog entitled Five Ways To Get Featured on Freshly Pressed. What is Freshly Pressed, you ask? It is the WordPress.com homepage where about 12 dynamic, seemingly random, recently posted blog entries (by WordPress users only) are featured. It may seem trivial but, trust me, you want [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips on Apr 21st, 2010
Here is an interesting Google service… Google photo shoots. If you live in United States, Australia or Japan (more countries to be added later, maybe?), you can apply to have Google come right to your business door for a photo shoot. The photos will then be added to your Place page. So what are your [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips on Jan 8th, 2010
Not long ago I received an email from a potential client asking for a quote for a new website. After summing up her needs and wants, I gave a very reasonable quote. Her response was that this quote was beyond her price range and that she would have to give up on her dreams of [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips, Social Media Funnies on Nov 9th, 2009
LinkedIn is a marvelous social network for business people who hope to make new contacts, stay in touch with colleagues (past and present), keep their “career options” open, and pick up some free tips, advice, and information. As with all social media, however, it is important to understand that a LinkedIn account will not govern [...]
Posted in Facebook Friday, Internet Marketing Tips on Sep 18th, 2009
Last week’s Facebook Friday’s focus was on getting Facebook fired. This week, let’s concentrate on the relationship between Facebook and getting hired. To begin, I would like to come completely clean and admit that I have looked up potential job applicants’ Facebook profiles. Once in a while I lurk okay? I am not alone; a [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips on Jul 2nd, 2009
First, lets make sure everyone is on the same page about exactly what twitter is and what it isn’t. According to Twitter, its social media designed to answer the one simple question, “What are you doing – right now?’ in 144 characters or less. A mini-blog, so to speak. So, why do these timely updates [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips, Toronto Web Design on Apr 30th, 2009
Business of all sizes and industries are successfully uilizing social media sites to promote their websites, products and services. What a lot of these same companies are not doing yet, however, is utilizing their websites, products, and services to promote their social media presense. Why not utilize your website to gain a wider Facebook or Twitter [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips, Social Media News on Apr 17th, 2009
I have one particular Facebook friend who sends out about a million status updates per day – almost all via Twitter. It would be annoying except he sends some very useful and interesting stuff. Today he sent out a link to PCMAG.com’s Top 13 Twitter dont’s which they collected by asking prominent twitterers. Although we [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing Tips on Mar 31st, 2009
I will be speaking tomorrow at a networking group event for business professionals in the Peel region. My presentation will cover the basics of marketing yourself and your small business online through the use of blogs and social media. If you are interested in learning more about networking opportunities in Vaughan region, please visit The Peel [...]