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Choosing the Right Social Media Channel for your Business

By on February 20, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

The Right Content for the Right Channels The wide array of social media channels are a blessing and a curse for businesses attempting to choose among them. Using social media to broaden your reach can be tricky, and depends almost entirely on how viral your content becomes. Before jumping into the nearest social community, it [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 4 – PPC Advertising

By on February 11, 2013 in Pay Per Click

Advertising Will Outlive You People are so quick to declare the death of advertising. It’s almost as if a rich bounty was announced and every “marketing guru” wants to be the first one holding its bloody head. What’s the reason for this? Perhaps they just get excited and jittery when things change a bit and [...]

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An Inbound Marketer’s View of TV Super Bowl Advertisers

By on February 8, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies
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Ad Copy in PPC Marketing – Our Last Stand Against the Robots

By on February 6, 2013 in Pay Per Click

The Robots Don’t Know Best It’s time to draw a line in the sand between robots and humans. We can only surrender so much to their idol of cold reason. Pull that subservient stare away from your 17-inch tunnel-vision display of AdWords. Your ads are living out there in the world, smacking people in the [...]

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Negative Keywords Can Make or Break Your PPC Campaigns

By on January 31, 2013 in Pay Per Click

Pay-Per-Click is growing You want to establish long term brand awareness and trust? Build a sturdy SEO platform. You want to convert both curious and ready-to-buy consumers and get your name in front of them right now? Establish a compelling PPC campaign. People searching with commercial intent click on paid search ads over organic search [...]

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How to Manage Your Bids in AdWords

By on January 31, 2013 in Pay Per Click

Live auctions can be stressful and loud and confusing. Thankfully, the digital auction of PPC advertising is much more manageable with a lot less gavel pounding. But don’t be lulled into complacency. You could be wasting money or missing valuable opportunities if you don’t manage your bids with the same attention you would bring to [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 3 – #Social Media

By on January 28, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

Walden Pond is now a Costco Can you imagine telling Thoreau about Facebook or Twitter? About Reddit? There’s a chance the king of quiet contemplation would warm to the new era of hyper-connectivity. Or, there’s a chance he would have spearheaded this current movement to unplug and recharge. Either way, he likely would have taken [...]

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How to Reach Google Local’s Phone Support

By on January 28, 2013 in Local SEO

Having trouble with your Google Places account? Luckily, Google recently launched a new help center just for Local. I just got off the phone with them and I am very impressed. When you are logged in to your Places account, there is a little “Help” link at the top right corner.   Once there, you [...]

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Quick Take – Social Media Lessons from Gangnam Style

By on January 23, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

You thought we couldn’t take the most popular bit of exciting, silly, crowd-pleasing fun and squeeze some dry marketing insight out of it, did you? Leave it to us to analyze social media trends as indicated by the behavior of a billion Gagnam Style viewers, as shown by this infographic. Here are some possible interpretations [...]

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Crashing the Social Media Party

By on January 21, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

Facebook Wants You…But Do Facebook Users Want You? It’s still tricky being a business on social media. It’s often like being a salesman trying to close a deal at someone’s birthday party – it’s clearly not about you. Be mindful of this potential friction at all times so as not to create negative associations around [...]

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