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Yahoo and Microsoft announced today that they are joining forces with their advertising networks in order to better compete with Google. Yahoo and Microsoft’s BING, along with their combined networks of search partners, are due to come out with their combined search ad network prior to the big Christmas advertising rush in late 2010. “Up [...]

BIA/Kelsey’s Mobile Market View study revealed 18.5 percent of mobile consumers used their mobile devices in 2009 to search for local products and services, up from 15.6 percent in 2008. Vertical categories are among the most searched and have major potential. Movies and entertainment, for instance, are accessed by 15.9 percent and restaurants and bars [...]

Online Business Directories are making major strides in Internet Advertising today. We’ve seen the move coming for a several years now, but reports issued this week show conclusive evidence that consumers are moving online when it comes to searching for locally available products and services.  Millennial Media’s S.M.A.R.T. report is now saying that businesses are [...]

This is a huge boost for local search marketing. Check out Google.com on your iPhone or Android browser and you’ll see a small new addition.  A tiny Near Me Now option below the search box. This new functionality turns your location into an automated search and makes finding or learning about places in your immediate vicinity a [...]

The social media “did you know” style videos are becoming more common on the web these days.  There used to be one big video that everybody linked to.  Now more and more people are providing great examples of how social media and

BizNdex LLC, a local search and social media marketing agency, is challenging local small and medium sized businesses to re-evaluate their marketing plans for 2010. Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) December 30, 2009 — Small and medium sized locally owned or operated businesses have not had the pain to change their marketing techniques in the past. However, [...]

Have you achieved your goals for 2009?  What goals or “new years resolutions” have you set for 2010?  Victor Antonio has a great talk on setting goals and achieving them.

James and Jacqui Ashford of Skiatook, OK and their 5 children lost their home, vehicles, a pet and everything they own to fire on Christmas night.

Forester Research predicts that in 2010, marketing as we know it may be dead. Traditional advertising has taken a huge hit this year as Nielsen reports that ad spending has tanked by 11.5% so far in 2009.  TNS Media claims that things are getting worse with a decline in ad spending of 15.3% in the [...]

It’s a weekly discussion around here, about how most advertising is intrusive and unwanted, except for Super Bowl Sunday ads.  Well that’s been shot to pieces!  Pepsi has announced that after 23 years of super bowl ads, they are bowing out of January 2010′s Superbowl and will instead spend that money on a social media [...]