Fifteen years ago, in all his giggly and shaky glory, Tickle Me Elmo took over. The hottest toy of the 1996 holiday season caused shoppers to turn vicious, inspired a whole new kind of black market (the $35 dolls sold at a several-thousand-dollar markup) and sparked a salacious scandal. During Tickle Me Elmo’s epic reign, Tyco—the toy company behind the mega-craze—saw its […]
Foursquare is looking to increase its visibility on the web by introducing new sharing buttons for publishers that will appear side-by-side with the Facebook “Like” and Google’s “+1” buttons in some cases. The buttons are being launched in partnership with Frommer’s Travel, Eater.com, Time Out New York, Time Out Boston, Time Out Chicago, Time Out […]
Most companies invest in employee handbooks. These valuable resources detail rules, regulations, mission statements, policies and expected conduct. But they often ignore what might be the most important company knowledge—marketing. Any employee that comes into contact with a customer or client is performing a marketing function. Do they know how to represent the organization accurately […]
City Specific Websites Created to Increase Backlinks and Position Company for Future Growth in the Midwest and Southwestern Regions – Website Traffic Already on the Rise. The BLU Group – Advertising & Marketing recently launched twenty-one (21) new websites to strengthen their search engine optimization program, enhance their backlink strategy, and begin their entry into […]
Do you stay quiet on social media because if you admit that you don’t get it, social media experts look at you like you have three heads? You are not alone. A lot of business owners feel that this marketing tool is beyond their understanding and will remain so. If you secretly feel hopeless or […]
Small-business owners work hard to drive traffic to their websites. Whether you’re using search engine optimization (SEO), traditional offline advertising or pay-per-click ads on networks like Google AdWords and Bing AdCenter, generating website traffic takes time and effort. But are you converting as many visitors into buyers or leads as you could be? Increasing your website conversions […]
ScanBuy will support QR codes appearing on “tens of billions of Coca-Cola cups” available at 7-Eleven, Subway and other locations. The codes will promote the beverage maker’s commitment to the “Save the Polar Bears” campaign, Mike Wehrs, ScanBuy CEO and president, told MediaPost. Wehrs expects the “Polar Bears” effort to experience heavy traffic to landing pages […]
In the past several years, businesses large and small have come to realize the positive impact of engaging their brand-loyal public and—more importantly—potential customers, via Facebook pages. While fan pages are typically seen as a destination for users to remain privy to brand news, a recent comScore report shows that a page is really just the place where content […]
You can’t control whether or not people talk about your business. Or can you? Do some businesses simply get lucky and enjoy an abundance of word-of-mouth buzz? Or do they make decisions and take actions that generate buzz? I believe that you can actually control how much buzz your business generates by addressing a few […]
Build custom, branded feeds that fit your website As social media has become a stronger component of our clients’ marketing efforts, we’ve had the opportunity to use several of the standard social media widgets when building websites to add the various feeds into pages. This past week I decided to push the bar and not […]
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