Gary Vaynerchuk put out a great video looking at social media interaction from brands today and how it may be an expected interaction in the future. The video has great examples of how things like free shipping, post holiday sales and social media interaction from athletes and big brands have produced a “Wow!” in …
When visiting the Minneapolis Star Tribune this afternoon I was bombarded with a page of ads for email marketing services. Both iContact and Vertical Response were serving up banner ads on the newspaper’s home page. It could only mean one thing, Minneapolis is the place for email marketing. In all seriousness though, it shows how …
Bring a visual and creative guy, I’m a huge fan of data and information communicated with more than a chart or via tables of stats. This fusion of design and data is known as an infographic. Webdesigner Depot posted a great collection of infographics and the Facebook vs. Twitter example really caught my eye. View …
The web and social media gave Dominos quite a headache earlier this year when a YouTube video circulated of a couple of employees “contaminating” a pizza at work. A nightmare fully disclosed to the entire web is not a fun incident to address and correct. It’s not the type of buzz you want to garner …
One of my favorite aspects of my profession is when I get to talk, present or interact with a group on web design or Internet marketing. I recently had the fortune of speaking with marketing profesionals of community banks in Minnesota that belong to the ICBM on social media. I enjoy bringing my passion, experiences …
Say what? A recent post on Noupe.com highlighted where the web will be in 5 years and has 15 different ideas/predictions to consider. Social Media Optimization may become the focus of online marketing, not SEO. All 15 of them are possibilities and the article provides a ton of links and additional information on each one. …
Free, easy and one more way to communicate with residents, Twitter can be a great tool for cities. I live in Buffalo, MN and noticed that they took the plunge onto Twitter last week (@BuffaloMN). For someone like myself who spends plenty of time on Twitter, I’ll likely be better informed. If they use it …
Sub sandwich chain Jimmy John’s offered up $1 subs today for a customer appreciation promotion. Not only do customers get a great deal, Jimmy John’s gets a ton of buzz and more business for free. Here are just a few Jimmy John’s related tweets (& photo links) from the hundreds today. Social media networks offer …
I’ve only been on posterous for a few weeks, but I’m already a big fan. The free service is all about making it easy to post rich media like photos and video to the web. In a nut shell it’s blogging simplified with all kinds of awesome extras. As with my site, you can easily …
The explosion of photo sharing and tagging on Facebook is a big part of their success and user growth. Viewing photos on Facebook has increased to over 70 million photos being viewed per day. USA Today Tech writer Jefferson Graham interviews Facebook engineer Scott Marlette on the topic. View the article & video interview (Sorry, …
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