On November 4th, 2009, the new Facebook promotional guidelines took effect with little notice. Whether you’re selling Maggianos or marijuana, the rules have a major impact on you and are strict. For example: You can’t require the user to post, friend, or comment as part of being entered into your contest. You can’t notify winners […]
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Let’s first address the size of the local online advertising market, then show why these masses will have a good shot at finding success in 2010, but haven’t before. If you don’t like stats, skip down to the red text below and start reading. Borrell Research, in their 2009 “Main Street Goes Interactive” report lists
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Well, perhaps not traditional video games, such as Pac-Man or Space Invaders– I’m talking about how every website is now incorporating game dynamics. But if you consider how Facebook, LinkedIn, FourSquare, MerchantCircle, Twitter, Farmville, or other sites operate, according to these game dynamics you’d be hard-pressed to tell me they’re not video games: Points: Earn
I play video games for a living now– sorta Read More »
Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com wrote today about a service that sells fans for 10 cents. On the surface, sounds great, right? You could have 10,000 fans for only $1,000. But wait a minute. What share of those fans are based in the US? Probably very little, since the unsold inventory is for Turkey, Chile, India,
What’s a Facebook Fan cost? When is $10 a better deal than 10 cents? Read More »
Borrell Associates predicts that in 2009 local online advertising will hit $14.2 billion, while in 2010 will be only $14.9 billion– a measly 5% increase. I would agree that local online ad dollars are not going to grow in the near term— the reason not being hyper-competitiveness, but the exact opposite. Ad dollars on Google
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Between my personal blog and that of Content Factory, we’ve gotten about 23,000 hits in the last 24 hours. The TechCrunch Effect is when TechCrunch covers your site, typically on launch day, and brings it down from massive traffic. And you often generate media buzz, with many companies then being acquired. Fortunately, we didn’t go
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It’s bad enough that there are over 60 million users (including me) wasting real time and real money growing virtual crops to earn virtual points. A new article in TechCrunch blows the doors on an industry that is set to generate over a billion dollars in 2009 (source: Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com). Look out for
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Not much more needs to be said about this. Gotta wonder how this ad was approved by Facebook. The guy is naked and she probably is, too. What do you think the advertiser was targeting– old guys who say “creeper” in their profile? This is worse than the “Date a Cougar” ads from a few
The WORST Facebook Ad ever! Read More »
You may have heard the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone”, regarding taking one action to produce two results. Twitter and Facebook have teamed up to create a highway directly to one another, allowing users to update one status and be published to both sites. Most people are aware of how you can have
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A few days ago, I posted a Facebook status message, asking “Who wants a free SEO analysis?” 23 people responded and I chose one winner. Yesterday, I chose the winner and posted the analysis here. And now, not even a day later, I do a search on Twitter and see pages and pages of people
Who says twitter is a waste of time? Read More »