Recently I’ve had several friends tell me that they’re not using facebook as much as they used to or anymore. My brother keeps talking about “facebook suicide,” a term I first heard from him. Basically it means he would unfriend everyone or just turn his account off and walk away. He hasn’t done that yet, […]
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Viral Videos
I saw a blurb from the Christian Science Monitor today about Viral Videos. The top 20 viral videos of the day are listed in order of popularity. See: http://www.viralvideochart.com/ Interesting how Susan Boyle is in it twice (#1, #19) and Britney Spears only has 1 (#11) of her hair extensions getting pulled out on stage […]
brick-and-clicks
A couple recent articles that caught my attention recently have to do with the term “brick-and-click,” used fairly often in Advertising Age and in this recent article ( How Walmart Owns the Concept of Value Online ) from the digital issue (a really good one, btw.). And in the article from PROMO, called: The Convergence […]
American Idol, Coke and AT&T… Oh, and Ford…
I was watching Idol tonight with 100 million other people and remembered an article I read in Advertising Age about it’s brand marketing. I have one question. What brand is on the judge’s glasses on the table? I’m sure you all guessed correctly that it’s Coca Cola. From the article: The biggest TV success in […]
What’s the difference between a keyword?
This reminds me of an old joke… Q: “What’s the difference between a duck?” A: “One foot is both the same.” Of course that doesn’t really make sense, but in a weird sort of way it does. There are millions of different keywords out there to choose form for any industry. One keyword (or phrase) […]
The most important keyword?
Many of you have may have heard the old saying that the 1st impression is the most important… So it is with websites. In terms of development, if you can’t get someone’s interest in the first 5 or 10 seconds, you’ve lost them. Likewise, with search engines, the first thing they see is usually your […]