A new client approach me and my team about doing some branding and marketing for their newly formed company. The client brought a good case study on why do-it-yourself marketing doesn’t work so well and how putting money in one area won’t necessarily fix the problem. One item they wanted us to help them with [...]
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Generate Traffic To Your Website For Free
Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not. There are numerous websites out there that will sell you “information” about how to generate traffic to your website, but this post is one place where you can learn one way to generate traffic to your website for free. One easy way to generate traffic to [...]
How To Create A Custom E-blast Part 2
In this article I will cover some of the basic specs of building a custom e-blast for direct mail marketing and personal use. If you missed the first post, you can read How To Create A Custom E-blast here in my blog. Assuming you are already familiar with web design and know that web graphics [...]
Go Ahead. Touch My Ad.
I read a news post 2 days ago on Engadget about Microsoft’s Surface coming to consumers April 17th through AT&T. I’ve been following this since it’s inception and introduction to some New York hotels for a trial run and have wondered when they’ll be coming to the consumer’s home, and more importantly, when we’ll have [...]
Apple's iPhone SDK to Open for Developers Soon, Advertising to Follow
On the morning of Thursday, March 6th, Apple announced their release of the iPhone and iPod touch developers SDK. What this opens up is 3rd party development of native applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. This update along with a host of new and related features is set to release in June. What does [...]
How To Get A Better Organic Search Ranking In Google
It seems everyone is interested in how to get a better organic search result in Google these days. Well, I’m going to help you get those better search rankings. Getting better organic (non paid) search rankings in Google isn’t going to happen over night, so don’t get discouraged. Google’s search results is determined by one [...]
How To Create A Custom E-blast
One question that I’ve been asked numerous times is “How do I create a custom e-blast?” Well, there are a few solutions available at a variety of skill sets and budgets. You can either use a service that allows you to use templates or custom designs, or you can do one that’s totally custom. If [...]
Design For Your Audience, Not Yourself
When picking up new clients who want a new, fresh web design for their site, I am usually shocked by their previous design. It’s not too uncommon to come across a website that was designed for the designer, and not the client’s audience. I’ll come across a site that has feminine demographic as their target [...]
Nokia to Join Mobile Marketing Game
In the article “Nokia Moves Closer to Being an Ad Seller” published on Ad Age, it talks about Nokia’s motion to acquire Enpocket and dive into mobile marketing. Is this the beginning of mobile advertisement standardization? It’s not too far fetched that Nokia would develop a mobile advertisement standard and deploy it on not only [...]
Text It To Me Baby, Uh Huh, Uh Huh
On a recent flight to Chicago I thumbed through the Sky Mall catalog and discovered that you can order via text message. A really cool idea and convenient service to offer. My only question is how am I supposed to order what I saw in the catalog on my flight if cell phones cannot be [...]
