Just over 2 years ago we began promoting our business Deep Roots LLC using the internet. Our business focuses on creating custom outdoor living spaces and landscaping in the Birmingham, Alabama area. Not knowing what kind of results to expect, we wanted to keep our cost down … so we decided to do the work […]
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Did you know that if you paste your Facebook fan page url into your status bar, it not only allows you to choose what thumbnail picture to include but also shows how many fans the page has? While we don’t have concrete evidence here, I’d have to think that a page with 2,000 fans will
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Many folks speculate why Google has overtaken Yahoo! in search or why Facebook has dominated in social networking, versus Friendster. I believe there’s one key factor— if you’re running a technology company, you need a technologist at the helm. Larry and Sergey of Google were Ph Ds (or about to be) in Computer Science. The
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Apple iAd Steve Jobs demo Did you see the above video? In it, Steve Jobs is showing off the new Apple iAds, a direct competitor to Google AdSense and other ads that “just suck” on mobile devices. For the desktop, “search is where it’s at,” asserts Jobs– but mobile devices are about apps, not search.
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Whoa, I just logged into my Google Analytics and see it in Korean. I hadn’t changed my browser’s language settings, logged in as another user, or had dinner at my favorite Korean restaurant. I have seen this kind of unexpected personalization from Facebook before, where sometimes they change your language settings based on where you’re
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This is a guest post from David Kenward, the Mental Coach. I’ve chatted with him a few times and see how his services can add amazing value to help folks perform under pressure, whether sports or business. Watch the videos on his site to see… In the film, Chocolat, the protagonist (who made chocolates and
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Online Marketing is like Monopoly. In the game of Monopoly, you roll the dice, land on the property, buy un-owned property, pay rent, develop a property, collect rent, and pass go. The problem many people have with this game is that they leave the game to luck and many hate the game because they rely
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On the Senate floor in California is a bill to make the white pages opt-in only, reversing a 1995 bill that mandated the distribution of these books as part of universal service. What’s ironic about this bill is that the process of getting it passed and then shared with the California population is that they’ll
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Gather some interesting statistics and then make a chart out of it– and you’ve got yourself an Infographic. Examples are showing a map of the world and income for each country displayed by green bars. Or perhaps it’s the price of gasoline over the last 2 years graphed against milk prices to show some
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Here is an article from TechCrunch showing Sully’s crash-landed plane in the Hudson. Above it is an ad for United Airlines, which shares a miles program with US Air. Is that good ad targeting or perhaps not?
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