Corporate Blogging at its Best
Posted in Around the Web, Marketing Funnies on Apr 30th, 2010
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag] It’s a good thing that the good people who market As Seen On TV gizmos are here to help us, because, according to their commercials, we can’t seem to do anything right. Here’s a compilation video from many different As Seen On TV ads showing just how poorly people handle simple household tasks. [ [...]
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, Uncategorized, iMark News on Apr 28th, 2010
According to an article in Fast Company entitled Report: Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter, written by Dan Macai, it is time to switch to bit.ly. Like suckers we have been using tinyurl, the least retweeted of all the url condensers. Another interesting finding is that punctuation is key to getting retweeted….unless [...]
Posted in Around the Web on Apr 27th, 2010
A relatively young company, SortFix is responsible for what can be considered as a breakthrough in the search engine experience. It doesn’t attempt to compete with the search engine giants Google, Yahoo! or MSN. What it does is to aggregate the results from top search websites and deliver an organized report to you in no [...]
Posted in Social Media News on Apr 23rd, 2010
Here is an interesting tidbit. Canadian Business magazine, May 10, 2010 issue, rated Twitter apps a loser in this weeks Winners and Losers score card. Here is what they had to say: “Social-media platform Twitter unveiled its business model in April, announcing plans to internalize functions like link-shortening and photo-posting, dismaying third-party developers of products [...]
Posted in Internet Marketing, iMark News on Apr 22nd, 2010
Late last week an article entitled Prepare to Get Stripped, written by Nicole Baute, was published in the Toronto Star. The focus of the article is a new beta site called Unvarnished. Assumedly because the site is still in the beta testing phase, the membership based site is invitation only. As Baute explains, “…a user [...]
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 Social Media News on Apr 20th, 2010
Nielsen recently released a report entitled ‘Understanding the Value of a Social Media Impression’, which provides measurable standards on how brands can effectively advertise in social networking sites, specifically Facebook. The research was a result of six months of research and a survey of more than 800,000 Facebook users. It examined 125 Facebook campaigns from [...]
Posted in Cool or Interesting Ads on Apr 19th, 2010
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Posted in Social Media News on Apr 15th, 2010
Most companies have put the death sentence on social media. Instead of thinking twice about the possible benefits of having some presence in social networking sites or at least blogging about their company, they would rather shrug it off, ban it in the office, and shut the public from news about the company and the [...]