Mobile Marketing For Small Businesses – Part 6
Holy cow! We're into our 6th post on mobile marketing for small businesses already! If you are terrified because you missed one or all of the first 5 posts, fear not, here's a recap:
Read moreHoly cow! We're into our 6th post on mobile marketing for small businesses already! If you are terrified because you missed one or all of the first 5 posts, fear not, here's a recap:
Read moreSo your small business has decided to invest in a mobile app of some sort. You know that it's important to be accessible to your potential customers and since they're all looking at their smartphones most of the time, even when they probably shouldn't be, it's about time you create a mobile experience that will be finger friendly and give them access to relevant information about your product or service quickly and easily.
Read moreThe hype before the Super Bowl claimed that this years group of ads would be pushing social. The new way for big brands to communicate with their audience with a new way to achieve a positive ROI...which can be tough given the cost of a 30 second spot. One benefit of a social promoting ad is that if you reach your audience and get them to follow you, will be be able to continually communicate with them months after the Super Bowl.
Read moreUPDATE: Check out my follow up post on ways Kenneth Cole could have avoided Tweet-Hell!
Read moreWednesday was the big unveiling of Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only magazine called "The Daily." We had the live stream of the event rocking in the protocol 80 office and the general consensus was that it's a pretty cool app. Now having had some time to play with the app's various features I think it's a pretty compelling reason to own an iPad (for now, Rupert Murdoch mentioned they were planning versions for other devices), and it's the most interesting take on tablet news I've seen so far.
Read moreIt isn't only on your Android device anymore. If you are an Android lover like myself, you probably heard about the Androd 3.0 event today. One of the big takeaways for me was the announcement of a web version of the Android Market, the Android Market Web Store.
Read moreI read an interesting article on Search Engine Land today that may impact some of our clients' rankings in Bing. According to the article, Bing has been mining Google search results to enhance their own search results. What the heck does that mean you ask? Think of it like cheating on a test, where you look at your neighbor's answers to fill in your test answers. The theory that Google has tested and says they have verified indicates that Microsoft is using Internet Explorer's suggested sites feature and the Bing search bar to monitor what users search for in Google, and show the same 1st search result in Bing. I Don't Care Whether It's Right Or Wrong The article debates whether what Microsoft is allegedly doing is illegal, right, wrong, etc... If you look at what Google has done with their image search results display, they basically copied Bing's. While I think it is both sneaky and clever at the same time, I don't particularly care. All that matters to me is that our SEO clients' ...
Read moreThere's a new website that has become pretty popular in the tech community called Quora, and I had ignored it up until recently. I mainly saw it through Twitter - for example I'd see someone tweet about answering a question on Quora - but I never knew what the heck it was. For my benefit just as much as yours I decided to give it a look.
Read moreYou have already read the first 6 parts of the Facebook for Small Business series, right? Now it's time to talk about analytics. If you need to do some catching up, here are the first 6 parts to the series.
Read moreWelcome back for the 5th post in my series on using mobile for marketing as a small business! Check out my previous posts in the series:
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