I’ve been working on a number of website design and SEO projects in Charlottesville and the biggest hurdle for most clients is the fear of blogging. In this post I will share a simple three step process for creating an effective blog post to help make your blogging experience more enjoyable, effective and rewarding for [...]
TinyURL.com – shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL
Setting and using Tiny URL’s is easy and very useful. They’ve become increasingly popular if not necessary to communicate on Twitter, for example, since the site only allows comments up to 140 characters. TinyURL.com – shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL. The idea is that instead of sharing a url that may be [...]
Facebook | New Site Media Group
The New Site Media Group Facebook page is now live and updated using the latest release of Facebook Pages. We’re adding new content and discussions everyday so check it out and become a fan if you’re interested. Facebook | New Site Media Group. Why Facebook Pages? Because Facebook is growing by 170,000 users every month [...]
2009 Internet Marketing Trend #9 – Behavioral Analytics
Behavioral analytics is understanding how customers interact with your company online and more importantly why. Analytics continue to improve, Google Analytics more notably as well as Woopra, which both offer a complete, robust view into visitor behavior. The trick is integrating this with other data sources, such as social networks to understand what drove them [...]
2009 Internet Marketing Trend #7 – Mobile Marketing
The #1 mobile phone in the world is the iPhone and with over 10,000 applications and 1 million application downloads, it has set the bar for mobile marketing. Mobile marketing is leveraging mobile phone technology to communicate with your customers or prospects. This could include mobile advertising, a mobile version of your website, or more [...]
Blogging from my iPhone
Well, it was inevitable – I finally got an iPhone and I absolutely love it. Posting from anywhere? Who wouldn’t love that? More to come as I learn how to make the most of this great new way to communicate with my readers.
Apple’s iMovie Makes Internet Video Easier in 2009
Personally, I love iMovie and am excited at the prospect of some improvements this year including better integration with video hosting sites, such as Youtube. Clearly, internet video is getting much easier to publish – great news for everyone. Apple will offer a significant update to iMovie at next week’s Macworld. It will largely focus [...]
More Evidence that Internet Video is a Viable Marketing Channel
Internet video continues to make its way from the computer to the TV and will soon become more prevalent in Charlottesville. This evolution is truly only beginning … Seattle-based GridNetworks’ proposal to consumers: Watch Internet videos easily on your television. To Internet content providers? Get your shows into consumers’ living rooms. GridNetworks’ new offering, GridCast [...]
Online Survey Shows Internet Video Marketing Works
Someone mentioned to me once or twice that Internet video marketing not only worked but that it worked REALLY well. I didn’t doubt it but you know how it is… you probably have no desire to film yourself talking to camera (a fear I may now have to overcome) and then there is the time [...]
YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the second [...]