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One of the many perks to having a blog with a decent amount of traffic and the word ‘marketing’ in the title is that publishers send you books for free.
In the last month I received Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri and 2011: Trendspotting For The Next Decade by Richard Laermer who coauthored Punk Marketing. [...]
Continue Reading: Accidental Branding and Trendspotting for the Next Decade
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If you’re like me and you read a lot of blogs and listen to a lot of podcasts then you have probably noticed that there has been a lot of discussions going on about Twitter.
Twitter is quickly establishing itself as an alternative communication medium that may soon become as common as email, instant messaging and blogging. Twitter was designed as a broadcast medium that makes it easy get short text messages out to friends and fans. All you have to do is type a short message, and anyone who is watching your Twitter feed will immediately get the message.
If you want to have a quick peek at what Twitter is all about I recommend trying out Tweetscan. Tweetscan is a search tool, that gives you real time access to public Twitter streams…
Continue Reading: Real Time Twitter Search With Tweetscan
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Todays post is not necessarily about endorsing one companies line of products, but more importantly how internet marketers can use a variety of products and mediums to enhance their internet marketing.
Using design, photography, and video can significantly increase the effectiveness of an online marketing campaign. And now that Google and the other major search engines are embracing universal search, both images and video will begin to have a greater impact on search engine optimization.
Adobe was already a leader in design and photography applications, but when they bought Macromedia in 2005, and acquired Flash, Dreamweaver, Director and Fireworks, they instantly became the leading provider of website creation applications as well. Becoming familiar with the different tools that are available can be useful to online marketers, even if you never plan to be hands on with them yourself.
Continue Reading: Internet Marketing With Adobe Products
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On Jaunuary 7th Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia has launched his latest open source project called Wikia Search.
Wikia Search is currently in Apha and can be found at alpha.search.wikia.com. So far the reviews have been overwhelmingly negative.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch calls it “a complete let down” and Stan Schroeder of Mashable calls it “miles behind the competition”, I say give it a year or two and see what the open source community can do with search. They have surprised the world with the success of Linux and Wikipedia, so succeeding at search may still be possible…
Continue Reading: Will Wikia Search Ever Compete With Google?
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After writing my review of Wordpot, the fast and free keyword discovery tool, I received an email from Nicole over at Trelian.
She wanted to know if I’d be interested in a free one-month trial of their Keyword Discovery tool which costs $49.95. That’s $10 less than Wordtracker and $49.95 more than Wordpot.
Nicole was probably [...]
Continue Reading: Trellian Keyword Discovery Tool
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The New Rules of Marketing and PR, written by David Meerman Scott, is part primer on internet marketing, and part manifesto on how marketing and PR proffesionals need to rethink the way they communicate online.
This book could have easily been named Internet Marketing 101, and should be adopted by marketing and advertising schools as mandatory [...]
Continue Reading: The New Rules of Marketing and PR - Book Review
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Since our Get Indexed and Ranked in 24 Hours post gets a fair amount of search traffic, I thought it would be a good idea to share with you the Quick Indexing Tool created by Blue Hat SEO that I recently discovered.
The Blue Hat SEO web site claims that the Quick Indexing Tool (QUIT for [...]
Continue Reading: How to Get Indexed In 24 Hours The Easy Way
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This book is a great primer on advertising, and media buying across multiple platforms.
Have you ever wondered what a 30 second commercial cost on American Idol ($340,000), or a full color page in Sports Illustrated ($128,683) or what Yahoo! earn from it’s 25 million unique visitors a day ($250,000 - $425,000)?
This book has been thoroughly researched and by comparing old market ideals with emerging technology, gives us insight into what drives these numbers.
Continue Reading: Watch This Listen Up Click Here - Book Review
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Thanks to Tubemogul, tracking the success of your next online video campaign may have become a whole lot easier. Tubemogul is a powerful new analysis tool that can track online video analytics across seven online video sites; Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo!, Revver and of course YouTube. And did I mention, it’s free!
One [...]
Continue Reading: Using tubemogul to track your online videos
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I recently purchased some Post Level Text Link Ads for one of my clients and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Post Level TLA’s are positioned just below the end of blog posts and before the comments. Advertisers are allowed to have a full 80 character title and 150 letter description, and there can be [...]
Continue Reading: Review of Post Level Text Link Ads
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The Search Anyway Blog is a search engine marketing and SEO blog run by the Search Anyway team, which is a PayPerClick search engine.
The blog is pretty well done and it has a great balance. There are news releases but also opinion, research, and other posts. There is also a great balance between [...]
Continue Reading: SearchAnyway PPC Blog Review
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I haven’t done a review in awhile, so I figured it was about time. Darin.cc is a blog about search engine marketing, but when I tried to find some more information about the author, I was just met with:
This site was created to blog about Search Engine Marketing, SEO, Advertising and anything else i’m [...]
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John Chow dot Com, a popular blog that helps its readers make money online, has a clever link baiting scheme that I just discovered today. Im going to kill three birds with one stone in this post. Im going to review his blog, review the link baiting scheme, and receive a top 100 [...]
Continue Reading: John Chow dot Com
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