May 2012
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April 2012
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Your Company's Online Marketing Strategy - Tips &...
From the Stir Online Marketing Solutions Blog. Our agency is a proud member of the Stir Digital Marketing Network, offering full-service global digital marketing and web solutions. * * * What is Video SEO?At the same speed that internet technology is evolving, Search Engine Optimization Experts (SEOs) are learning new ways in which businesses like yours can achieve that much-coveted “top spot”...
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Your Company's Online Marketing Strategy - Tips &...
From the Stir Online Marketing Solutions Blog. Our agency is a proud member of the Stir Digital Marketing Network, offering full-service global digital marketing and web solutions. * * * What is Social Media SEO? In previous blog posts, we discussed Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Search Engine Optimization(SEO). Next we’ll describe how you can use SEO to get the most out of your efforts in...
Social Media Tweets : Trending Topics in Internet... →
Social Media Tweets : Trending Topics in Internet Marketing, Tourism Marketing, Google+, Facebook - all via Twylah
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SEO and Google's "Search Plus Your World"
At the beginning of 2012, Google launched “Search Plus Your World” — a change to the way the search engine performs that promises to make internet search more personalized than ever. “Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care...
First coordinated U.S. tourism campaign to launch... →
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Google Plus and Your Business
At the beginning of the year, Google changed the face of “internet search”, and made search engine optimization (SEO) just a bit more ponderous. How? They launched Search Plus your World, which makes searching the internet more personalized than ever: your personal Google+ platform will now be integrated with Google Search. For SEOs, that means that while Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, and now...
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Choosing Channels: The best social media strategy...
Do you participate in social media marketing as a way to grow your business and increase sales? If so, do you have a social media marketing strategy? Have you ever considered creating a social media marketing architecture? Do you know what “social media marketing architecture” means? If not, you’re not alone. Many businesses (even big ones who are actively marketing themselves through social...
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Vancouver Internet Marketing Social Media...
Last month Stir Communications Group CEO Brent Purves provided insights on Social Media Marketing best practices to the Financial Post for a Canadian business case study called “Focused Messaging: Social media helps us stand out in a noisy new market with many competitors” (Denise Deveau, Financial Post, Mar. 5, 2012). * * * Excerpt: “When considering a social media strategy to build...
With This Device, Sanitize Your Phone While... →
6 Ways to Acquire New Customers via Social Media →
The Customer Experience Series is supported by Webtrends. Get insider tips and a step-by-step guide to acquiring, engaging and nurturing fans. Download the Playbook. We all know social media is an important tool for brand awareness and customer acquisition — but how exactly are you supposed …
10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand On Social Media →
Joe Chernov is the VP of Content Marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand. Marketers are suckers for a catch phrase, from “join the conversation” to “think like a publisher.” Now, thanks largely …
March 2012
9 posts
Twitter, Facebook, Google+: Three-way brand page... →
Marketers Who Share Content Drive Traffic, Gain... →
Content marketing was a top priority for businesses in 2011, and it is going to remain so in 2012. That’s according to a study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute, a marketing education and research company. In the past year, marketers distributed more business-to-business content o…
Fully remote controlled coffee shop? Cool →
Facebook Employees Paint Giant QR Code On Rooftop... →
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6 Successful Twitter Hashtag Campaigns →
The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including better B2B lead nurturing. Chances are if you’ve heard of a Twitter hashtag campaign, it’s because it failed. The mark…
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3 Ways Marketers Can Reach Facebook's Mobile... →
Victoria Ransom is founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, the global leader in social media marketing software. Victoria is a sought-after expert on social marketing trends and was recently named a 2012 TechFellow by the Founders Fund, NEA and TechCrunch. Visit here for more information about F…
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Social Video Marketing Company - SceneChat -...
We just enabled SceneChat on this Tumblr site. You’ll now able able to add comments to any part of this sample youtube video above. Give it a go. Test the Facebook and Twitter comment publishing functionality too. Sweet. Nice job SceneChat. We’ll be watching you. Learn more about SceneChat and/or install it on your site at http://www.SceneChat.com
February 2012
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Q&A: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley on What He's... →
Foursquare, about to celebrate its third birthday, is big but not huge. It has signed up 15 million users, hired over 100 employees and now boasts several million check-ins per day. That is impressive work for three years, but it must keep growing.
To do so, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley says the company is in the process of redesigning its mobile app for a broader audience,...
January 2012
18 posts
How to Create a Google+ Profile Banner in 5... →
Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You’ll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. In addition to setting up a Google+ page for your business and taking advantage of our handy Google+…
Video Service Tout Claims It Boosts Users'... →
Tout got a big boost when Shaquille O’Neal announced his NBA retirement in one of the service’s 15-second video clips. Before then, few people had herad of the service, which allows users to easily link the videos to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Prior to O’Neal’s unsolicited endorsement, few people had heard of Tout, which just launched in April. After Shaq’s...
A Great Social Media Cheat Sheet For Those New To...
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-small-business-social-media-cheat-sheet Do you need a Twitter account, a Facebook Page, a Youtube account, a Google + Page, a Tumblr account or a Dig account? Here’s a cheat sheet to get you up to speed with the basics (what is it, what does it do, pros and cons, and some lingo) in a hurry. Still need some help translating this into language you can...
The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet →
Which Social Media Marketing Channels Will Be Best...
Beyond the big three (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), smaller social media sites are to see boosts in usage by internet marketers in 2012 This survey shows blogs will receive the most new attention from marketers in 2012. Full article at http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1008790&R=1008790 What about you? Are you taking advantage of building your personal or business social media...
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Twitter is set to roll out enhanced profile pages...
Twitter is set to roll out enhanced profile pages after Feb. 1, 2012 pages will give brands the ability to build platforms on their pages that could include iFrame environments, allowing users to play games or shop on a brand’s site without actually leaving Twitter Twitter’s brand pages will function a lot more like Facebook brand pages Read...
What Does Google Know About Me? Is It All True?...
Google DashboardFind the answer to the question, “What does Google know about me?” by visiting the Google Dashboard, which shows you information stored in your Google Account. From one central location, you can easily change your privacy settings for services such as Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Picasa, and Profiles. More info about Google privacy...
Choosing The Right Social Media Marketing Strategy
Do you participate in social media marketing as a way to grow your business and increase sales? If so, do you have a social media marketing strategy? Have you ever considered creating a social media marketing architecture? Do you know what “social media marketing architecture” means? If not, you’re not alone. Many businesses (even big ones who are actively marketing themselves through social media...
Explaining The New Google Privacy Rules
The main change is for users with Google Accounts. Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience....
Google updates export tool Takeout to support...
Google Takeout, the service which allows Google users to download their data from various Google products all at once, has been updated with an option to be emailed when the archive is ready for download, configurable filetypes for services that support multiple formats, support for more Google products, and an updated interface… Google updates export tool Takeout to support Google Docs -...
Highlight: The Nearby Social Network
The latest social network to jump into the social pool is Highlight and it wants you to find your friends—at least potential friends—nearby. Highlight uses information from your Facebook account to determine if other Highlight users in the vicinity should know about each other. It also tells you when one of your actual friends is nearby—roughly within one-and-a-half blocks. Highlight: The Nearby...
Highlight: The Nearby Social Network
The latest social network to jump into the social pool is Highlight and it wants you to find your friends—at least potential friends—nearby. Highlight uses information from your Facebook account to determine if other Highlight users in the vicinity should know about each other. It also tells you when one of your actual friends is nearby—roughly within one-and-a-half blocks. Highlight: The Nearby...
Google updates export tool Takeout to support...
Google Takeout, the service which allows Google users to download their data from various Google products all at once, has been updated with an option to be emailed when the archive is ready for download, configurable filetypes for services that support multiple formats, support for more Google products, and an updated interface… Google updates export tool Takeout to support Google Docs -...
Explaining The New Google Privacy Rules
The main change is for users with Google Accounts. Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience....
Facebook, Twitter Engineers Tweak Google's Social... →
[brightcove video=”1409770502001” /] A team of engineers, drawn from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, have rebuilt Google to “focus on the user” and re-jigger Google’s recent Search Plus Your World changes, which put results for Google+ pages above sometimes more relevant pages like those on oth…
4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve in... →
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Sure, having a website for your business serves a practical need: to draw net-surfing users to your product or service…
December 2011
7 posts
Vancouver Internet Marketing News is out! http://t.co/teCFORoE ▸ Top stories today via @kalamana @mobilemarketwow @genf20hgh
Meet the 16-year-old whose Summly app notched up 17k downloads in 4 days
http://t.co/uQ1v8VKS #summly
Google donates millions to fight human trafficking http://t.co/hbKNq6Xg
Google’s online phone service will remain free through 2012 - http://t.co/6gbT9h9F http://t.co/zzyKVnHv
Vancouver Internet Marketing News is out! http://t.co/teCFORoE ▸ Top stories today via @mikekujawski @haddadfrank @jasondubroy @bradsmith129
Twitter Marketing Global News is out! http://t.co/WukhFVkX ▸ Top stories today via @todder4news @growtweets @kristenkoenig @virtual_alchemy
Facebook’s Timeline is rolling out now, starting in New Zealand
http://t.co/sf1HtMtU
November 2011
16 posts
HOW TO: Improve Engagement on Your Brand’s Facebook Page [STATS] http://t.co/AWA2FfLh
Twitter Marketing Global News is out! http://t.co/WukhFVkX ▸ Top stories today via @kirkmktg @lainors @emailclubs @nlmillionaire @socialpage
HootSuite Announces Google+ Pages Integration in the Dashboard http://t.co/lmO6Vucb