December 2008 Archives
As you prepare to take up yoga, learn Spanish, and start volunteering at a soup kitchen every weekend, here are ten internet habits this internet marketing company says it’s perfectly ok to keep! It’s Ok to.... Spend more time fussing with your blog wallpaper than you do with your home wallpaper. To have 200 unread entries in your Charitable Organization News RSS Feed, and zero in your Perez Hilton Feed. Change your Yahoo! avatar’s outfit every single day. Refuse to look out the window and insist on using your iPhone widget to determine the day’s weather. Master the art
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Continue reading Ten Internet Un-Resolutions to Make this Year
Here's something you don’t see everyday, Google displaying the wrong website address. I ran a search on Tukwila Hotels and Google gave me the results pictured below. Take a look at the listing for the Red Lion. See the URL? It's www.tullys.com. Tully's is a Seattle area coffee company. They make the best espresso milkshakes around, even good in the middle of winter. There is no Tully's in the Red Lion hotel and no mention of Tully's on the Red Lion hotel website. I guess even Google gets it wrong sometimes.
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Continue reading Google Oops - Tukwila Hotel Meets Seattle Coffee
AdBrite has been around awhile, they’ve been conventioning and promoting and press releasing, trying to grow their brand and their business and I have always been a sucker for testing a new platform. You just never know when you’re going to find that 2nd or 3rd tier platform that turns into a gold mine. Previously I had taken them for a spin on an affiliate site as a publisher, just to see if I could find another source of income by the pennies other than Google AdSense for automatic ad serving. (Not the kind where I go out and
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Continue reading AdBrite: Trash or Treasure?
Chris Abraham over at Marketing Conversations wrote an thoughtful critique of Burger King’s new Whopper Virgins campaign. I appreciate Chris’s opinion: The video is at times jingoistic and, frankly, a little embarrassing if you’re an American. Burger King went out of their way to find people in local clothing minutes from major urban centers in Europe. How exactly did they do that? Much of the video is just more ugly Americans pointing and giggling at the rest of the world. I also see Burger King’s thinking: This is a great viral piece. The effort alone - flying a broiler all
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Continue reading Whopper Virgins: Not Appalling. Not Brilliant, Either.
Back in September of 2007, Yahoo announced the ability to choose Pay Pal as a payment method for adding funds to your search marketing account. Up until now, I hadn’t had a use for the option and continued doing manual refills, automatic deposits or invoicing for clients. But then a client came along (me) that had a free $100 advertising credit if I opened a new Yahoo Search Marketing account. All I had to do was put down the minimum deposit of $30 to get the $100. Sounds like a great deal for the small business right? Right. I went
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Continue reading Paying your Yahoo Search Marketing bill with Pay Pal
