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There are a ton of new opportunities to help businesses keep up with all of the demands of social media.  Businesses today recognize that social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and many others are what today’s buyers are using to research and make their buying decisions. You can earn a great deal of [...]

At the Google Development Conference on May 18 and 19 in San Francisco, the platform called “Android” was a key element of discussion. What is Android? People call it a Google phone, but actually it is an open source mobile operating system. The Android is still behind Apples’ iPhone in the number of apps, but [...]

Promoting your business in Google, Google Maps, and in other major services that utilize geo-targeted advertising is a smart strategy for locally owned and operated small businesses today. It is essential that small businesses today get on board with local marketing and advertising techniques in order to ensure that consumers can find them when they [...]

So what’s like, this like, Facebook LIKE stuff about really?  Like seriously, gag me with a spoon!  Are we flashing back to like, the 80′s here? No, it’s the new millennial brainchild of Facebook in their quest to maintain their bigger than Google status.  Yes, people spend more time on Facebook pages today than they do in [...]

Twitter launched their first ad service today called Promoted Tweets.  Twitter is starting with a few ad partners; Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users.  Visitors to Twitter.com will see Tweets promoted by [...]

$6.3 billion was spent in the 4th quarter of 2009. This is the largest amount ever spent in online advertising in a single quarter, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). Despite the economy, Internet advertising, and especially Local Internet Marketing are breaking all the records. As consumers spend more and more time on sites like YouTube, [...]

For thousands of years business savvy people have known that it’s always about “location, location, location.”  Whether you’re in real estate or running a business.  Typically, it’s extremely important to be where people are actively engaged in commerce. Here are some pressing questions… Just how big is Facebook really? Why does Facebook get more traffic [...]

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You would think that CNN would be worried about Fox News.  According to a recent question-and-answer session with BusinessWeek, Klein specifically states, “We want to be the most trusted source,” and, “I’m more worried about the 500 million or so people on Facebook versus the 2 million on Fox.” This comes just a few weeks after [...]

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 [...]