Search Marketing Now Webcast, “Real-Time Marketing on the Socially Connected Web” Addresses how to Connect with Customers Online

On Thursday, November 18 at 1 PM EST, Search Marketing Now presents “Real-Time Marketing on the Socially Connected Web: Connecting with Customers when it Counts,” a free webcast featuring Rob Garner, senior strategy director at iCrossing and columnist for “The Search Insider” at MediaPost. This webcast is free and registration …

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User Community Driving Web Innovation with SiteJazzer

A little over a month after the launch of SiteJazzer, Harbinger Knowledge Products announced a series of enhancements to the online software service. SiteJazzer is an online software service that enables web marketers and ad agencies to quickly and inexpensively create exciting web elements to jazz up their websites. It …

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How to check your online suppliers are up to the job

Prime Minister David Cameron must be rather upset with his own security services. It seems they informed President Barack Obama within five minutes of discovering a suspect package at East Midlands airport, yet they took 11 hours to let Mr Cameron know. Apparently, “Whitehall sources” have said that “lessons can …

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4 Ways to Integrate Autoresponders With Social Marketing

By Herman Drost Social marketing is a powerful way to generate traffic and build a large list of potential customers. Millions of people use Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and RSS feeds to communicate with each other. If you combine social media websites with autoresponders you’ll not only expand your audience but …

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UK search spend increases for third quarter in a row

Advertisers’ spend on paid search rose in the UK for the third quarter in a row, according to research from leading performance marketing company, Efficient Frontier. The company’s Q3 2010 Digital Marketing Performance Report shows a six percent growth in Q3 this year over Q2; and also six percent growth …

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Your online friends are valuable when they talk nonsense

You can’t imagine former Prime Minister Gordon Brown having many friends on Facebook. Not because he doesn’t have friends, but probably because he is a rather cerebral person, who is likely to shun the meaningless chit-chat so prevalent in online social networks. I don’t know Mr Brown, but I suspect …

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Email is more important than you might think

Wayne Rooney may or may not leave Manchester United. But one thing is for sure: Sir Alex Ferguson will have no trouble finding a replacement. Deep down in yesterday’s reports of Rooney’s reticence to stay in Manchester there is the telling comment from Sir Alex. He said that we would …

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Search will not really answer your questions

Finding out what Chancellor George Osborne says today in the Comprehensive Spending Review is easy – you can listen to it word by word on BBC Radio Five Live. Alternatively, you can log on to the Government’s own live streaming service, Parliament Live TV. Not only that, Sky, BBC News …

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Social networks need to be even more social

The President of Chile, Sebastian Piñera, arrived in London yesterday with a bag of rocks as a present for the Queen. Of course, those rocks were from the depths of the mine in San Jose where 33 men had been trapped for 70 days. The rocks are a symbol of …

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Business bosses fail to grasp social media

Don’t tell your boss at work, but almost certainly he or she is living in the past, unable to grasp the modern world. They want it to be “like it used to be” and mutter things like “it was never like this in my day”. They thump their fist on …

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Landing Page Success Summit: The Web’s Largest Online Optimization and Conversion Conference November 2010

The Web’s first and largest online conversion conference–Landing Page Success Summit–is a brand new live web conference designed to help Marketers increase their online profits with the #1 conversion strategy, customized landing pages. The Conversion Experts will teach Marketers conversion techniques and web page optimization tactics proven to increase search …

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Three reasons why you should not have a social media manager

We prefer the real thing to a fake…! At lunchtime today the weekly spectacle of verbal jousting takes place at Prime Minister’s Questions. David Cameron will square up to the new Labour Party Leader, Ed Miliband. Who’s your money on to make the first joke, or get the deepest dig? …

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Best Practice In Social Media By IFAs And Providers To Be Recognised With New Awards

IFA and Financial Planners’ Social Networking site IFA Life announced three awards today which will be presented at the Social Media in Financial Services Conference on November 4th  2010. As Social Media becomes a mainstream networking, marketing and communication tool within Financial Services, IFA Life is recognising those who exhibit …

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IFA Life launches new jobs and careers site

In response to growing demand from IFAs and financial services recruiters, IFA Life today announces the launch of IFA Life Jobs and Careers at http://www.ifalifejobs.com. The site features traditional online job advertising by recruiters, agencies and individual IFA firms, but in an industry first will utilise many cutting edge social …

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An Innovation in Social Shopping

Camelot Venture Group announced today the launch of a new service to consumers called WANT. With WANT, consumers have a brand new way to share lists of products they desire with friends and families via email or by pushing their WANTs out to Facebook. The unique aspect is that WANTers …

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