Today was another first for me, after the announcement of WebVisible closing their doors after a 10 year run, and the official announcement from their CEO posted on Tech Crunch. Here’s part of the note sent to employees: It is with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that today, December 27, 2011 is the last day of …
How Restaurants Are Using Social Media to Their Advantage
Many restaurants are using social media to enhance an age-old marketing technique: Making customers and their experiences the face of their brand. Let’s YO Yogurt, which launched its first franchise location in Marlboro, N.J., and has about 30 more units sold and preparing to open in New Jersey, New York and Florida, is using social media as a main driver …
GoDaddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance
A bit off topic for my typical posts to technology, however I felt it relevant enough based strictly on most attorneys views of the Internet being the wild west. It’s been a hell of a Christmas weekend for GoDaddy. The hosting and domain registrar company lost more than 37,000 domains in the past couple of days due to its shaky …
Google Dev: We Are Making Chrome Out of Kindness to Web
I found an article today on Tom’s Hardware that just made me think. Looking at how Google views their products, the adaptation of the world wide web, and more than that…Cost benefit analysis. The obvious idea behind this move is Google’s interest in capturing those advertising revenues generated by Mozilla’s25 percent browser market share and users who are using the …
Search & Mobile Marketing Trends: SEO Apocalypse 2012
This has been a year where search marketing truly matured. Mobile became one of the largest growth components, with its share of the overall search market now reaching 20 percent. Looking ahead, expect 2012 to be the year when we push further into the Mobile Semantic Web 3.0, which presents opportunities that will drastically change SEO as we know it. …
When Will Social Media Measurement Mature?
Emareketer released this article on the heals of StrongMail’s, (attached to the bottom of this post) findings yesterday. It seams as if companies are ignoring the gut feeling about Social Media paying off, and investing in it anyway, latest studies show that business still don’t feel like Social Media is effective but other studies show that they are still going …
Glassdoor Names ReachLocal in Top 50 Best Places to Work 2012
Today we’re thrilled to announce that ReachLocal has been named one of Glassdoor’s 50 Best Places to Work in 2012! Based on 250,000 employee reviews submitted in the last year, this Employee’s Choice award truly represents how ReachLocal employees feel about working here. With 65,000 companies in the running, only 50 had what it takes to make Glassdoor’s Best Places …
Companies Worldwide Plan to Increase Social Media Marketing
Another great article from emarketer. Social media marketing has been debated for the last two years about how to tie an ROI to it. It seems as if the ROI battle has been decided but business are will to invest in social marketing. Social media is becoming an important part of business around the world, and companies in many regions …
Ever wonder what the most expensive PPC keywords are?
Ever wonder what the most expensive PPC keywords are? The graphic below seems to answer that very well. Original Source
Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
The kerfuffle painting the Google Wallet app as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles. First, whether or not apps should be vetted for security, privacy, and other legal concerns before public release or …