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From Acquisition to Advocacy – The “Digital” Customer Lifecycle Funnel

by Greg Chapman September 13, 2010

According to numbers I “mashed-up” myself, taken from Forrester’s 2009 U.S. Interactive Marketing Forecast and an e-Marketer estimate, I pieced together the following estimate of advertising spend in 2011 (approximate, in U.S. billions): Television $70,432 31% Print  $56,256 23% Digital $34,080 15% Newspaper $29,536 13% Out of Home & Other $22,720 10% Radio $18,176 8% [...]

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Search Marketing: Evaluating The Experts

by Travis Unwin September 1, 2010

You admit it. Figuring out the intricacies of how your business shows up in search results is hard. Your business is your business, and your business is not the business of search engines. You’ve come to terms with this, and you understand that you need to write a check to someone who is in the [...]

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Google: Balancing Risk, Reward, Reputation & Revenue

by Anthony Mills August 30, 2010

As the saying goes, “with great power comes great responsibility.”  Unfortunately for Google, smaller competitors are less concerned with responsibility of privacy control and more concerned with power ad relevance.  Because of this, the search giant has fallen behind the times and is sacrificing a good deal of revenue because of it. In a recently leaked seven-page [...]

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Facebook Places: What it is, How it Works, What it Means

by Shannon Johnson August 23, 2010

Something substantial happened in the sphere-o-social-media this past week – Facebook’s rumored geolocation “check-ins” feature finally cropped up. It’s called Facebook Places. But you probably knew that already since it’s likely that you’ve recently seen a story about a friend’s location appear in your News Feed. Or maybe you know of it because Facebook alerted [...]

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Google Introduces New AdWords Location Ad Extensions for Mobile Devices

by Chris Corak August 5, 2010

Google has worked very aggressively to add value and relevance to its standard text-based advertisements. While text-based ads are highly useful and appropriate in most circumstances, sometimes videos, pictures of products, seller reviews or maps may be more appropriate. This depends on the user’s search, where the user is searching from and what device the [...]

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Optimization Without Limits

by Leslie Jackson July 26, 2010

The luster is gone from SEO. The mystique, the veil of secrecy, has long disappeared. In its place are shiny new objects – social, mobile, augmented reality, geo-location.  SEO is the “Woody” to new media’s “Buzz Lightyear.”  As least that is how it is perceived. While it may lack the bells and whistles, SEO remains [...]

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