
If you’ve been putting this off because it just doesn’t seem we should already be planning for 2010, then your time is up. 2010 is around the corner and it’s really time to finalize that plan. Ideally a marketing or media plan should be developed, discussed and finalized with your group BEFORE 2010 actually starts. [...]
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At Jennifer Barbee Inc., we’re all about fresh new talent, innovative ideas and welcoming new people into our tech-savvy crew! Yesterday we had an awesome addition to our office who brought his top-notch skills to the JB Inc. headquarters for Career Shadow Day – our new friend and co-worker, 12-year-old Luke Hagy.
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Looking for higher returning site traffic and brand loyalty? Work on your social networking strategy. According to recent research by ad network Chitika and reported by eMarketer, social sites tend to be far more effective at driving returning traffic to your site than search engines – so brands looking for loyal followers, take heed! Snag ‘em in your social network and you’ll keep ‘em coming back for more.
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I am sure everyone heard or read last week about Microsoft’s Bing search deals with Twitter and Facebook. Google fired back almost immediately with their own deal – I am sure there were no surprises here. Google also completed their deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, Google announced a new feature: Social Search.
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For their three year anniversary, Google has gifted us web worriers with three new features of its Custom Search Engine. Let me give you a breakdown of what you can expect from these three new features:
Custom Search Themes: Select and style your search results page with themed layouts that are easily customizable and will not [...]
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Facebook has taken over…and MySpace has taken a backseat to social media. In a recent study conducted by Experian Hitwise in September, MySpace has taken the biggest dip in visitors but continues to be the number 2 social media site out there. So, our question is, what is the future of MySpace? What are the head marketers [...]
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Looks like our favorite free TV site, Hulu.com, won’t be free forever. Hulu’s co-parent company, News Corp, has said the site will start charging users for content in 2010, according to Gizmodo.
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Yesterday, Bing announced that they had struck a deal with Twitter and Facebook to make status updates searchable by the popular new engine. And true to the speed of the internet, the Twitter search function is now live on Bing, and can be tested here.
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As I mentioned last week Mashable had a web faceoff where they put Twitter and Facebook up against each other in a viral knock down competition and let readers decide which social media network they prefer. While it wasn’t quite as nose to nose as a previous web faceoff they did a few weeks ago, [...]
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Feel like you’ve mastered Web 2.0? Now you may have to learn to master Web 3.0. There has been some talk about the possibilities of Web 3.0! Yikes!! What does this mean for marketers and how will this affect your marketing efforts? To clarify the differences between Web 1, 2 and 3, J. Leigh [...]
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