The Local SMB Voice
April 5th, 2011 // 3:36 pm @ Greg
Google Places, Facebook Check In, and Yelp in store marketing collateral really extend the local review online experience offline. According to the Borrell Associates 2011 Outlook survey, the 2,872 small and midsize businesses that were asked about their advertising budgets, said they plan to increase their online ad spending by 29% this year, compared to [...]
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Internet Approaching WoM As Top SMB Referrer — Survey
March 24th, 2011 // 5:47 pm @ Greg
When I saw the American Express survey noting that “more than half of small business owners say they need help with search engine marketing”, I immediately thought $$$. But after reading through the article a bit further, I realized that the opportunity ahead is to bring awareness to the SMB community of the many available [...]
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Universal Promotes Horowitz to Studio President
May 6th, 2010 // 11:20 am @ Greg
Universal ups Horowitz to studio president! Jimmy Horowitz has been upped to president of Universal Pictures. The studio is looking to Horowitz, who most recently was exec VP, to shape and implement domestic strategic business initiatives and help manage day-to-day business operations. Read the full story http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118018861.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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Don’t look at my Facebook…
April 29th, 2010 // 12:11 pm @ Greg
Yesterday, the media went nuts with a Facebook frenzy. Apparently Facebook users who opt-out of Facebook’s public Pages land up with blank profiles containing no information (no likes/dislikes, favorite TV shows, etc). Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb does a great job detailing the specifics of the changes and how to handle those choices. What I found [...]
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Google Loves Apps
April 27th, 2010 // 9:21 am @ Greg
With today’s announcement of the Labpixies acquisition by Google, the convergence of web to mobile gaming takes a whole new light. According to TechChrunch’s Erick Schonfeld, Google’s strategy may be to extend audiences from it’s personalized web app igoogle and continue a play pattern to it’s mobile platform android. The strategy makes sense when you [...]
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Ning Says Friends Aren’t Free Anymore
April 16th, 2010 // 1:20 pm @ Greg
Do It Yourself (DIY) Social Networking platform Ning, announced that it’s Free networking service will be discontinued and replaced with a paid option. Team, When I became CEO 30 days ago, I told you I would take a hard look at our business. This process has brought real clarity to what’s working, what’s not, and [...]
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Twitter Wants To Make Money….
April 15th, 2010 // 1:45 pm @ Greg
It appears that Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo of Twitter introduced some new revenue model ideas today that the organization will be enacting. There will be two “pillars” to Twitter’s business model, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said at the company’s Chirp developer conference in San Francisco. The first, announced earlier this week, is Promoted [...]
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At First I Didn’t Believe…But Now I’m an iPad Fan!
April 15th, 2010 // 12:34 pm @ Greg
Since it’s mid April launch, the iPad has been showing up at different coffee shops I frequent. Finally yesterday I got a 45 minute user review from a friend of mine who has one. WOW…Right? Being “hardware” agnostic, meaning I own several PC and MAC equipment including PC tablets, I was excited to play with [...]
Read More »President Hugo Chavez…Affiliate Marketer?
April 19th, 2009 // 8:25 am @ Greg
Aside from being the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez on Saturday turned into an affiliate marketer, maybe even a super affiliate by giving United States President Barack Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘The Open Veins of Latin America”. As footage of the encounter appeared on the web, and traditional media sources like TV [...]
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Becoming More Social Means Spending More Time Online
March 16th, 2009 // 8:58 am @ Greg
A few years back, the Internet was positioned as the newest communication channel around. The very ability to instantly create published public content was only surpassed by being able to edit and update that content as well. In just recent years, Internet communication has moved from dynamic text to what I like to call “living [...]
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