Small businesses are continuing to increase their spending in areas of social media and digital marketing, so says new research by AT&T. AT&T based the information and the trends on a survey of over 1,000 small businesses. The research has shown that roughly two-thirds of small businesses have decided to spend as much or more…

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It is Tornado Week for the Weather Channel, and the Interns have decided that they would cause a storm on Twitter. See what I did there? Well, they are streaming a live feed of the office for a week, and the interns are counting the mentions of their topic on the social media Twitter. The more mentions…

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Coca Cola‘s campaign entitled ‘The Ahh Effect’ was launch on Wednesday the 24th of April. The marketing campaign is aimed at the younger generation who would consume the content through their phones, primarily. The company has taken 61 domain names, each one simply ‘Ahh’.com, but an extra ‘H’ is added each time. Here are a…

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The key marketers at Volkswagon certainly were very clever with their latest online marketing campaign. They used the typical SEO functions to bring their images from 5 different sites together to make an image on Google Search. If you had typed in ‘Ultimate Business Car‘ into Google Search, you would have for quite some time…

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YouTube has recently reached a benchmark for it’s user count. The amount of YouTube users has now reached the 1 billion unique users per month mark, making YouTube on par with Facebook, and officially the second highest and most influential social media network. Did you know that nearly one out of every two people on…

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Facebook has recently pitched an advertising opportunity. Facebook has proclaimed that they can offer businesses the chance to focus on who their actual customers are, and a method to fully apply their marketing strategy to, beyond analytics. They can target making advertisements appear on the walls of those who are most likely to be swayed…

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Domino’s Pizza has recently reached 8 million fans on Facebook, and so to say ‘Thank You’, they recorded and drew out the words using actual domino art and the power of YouTube. The video is not necessarily viral- posted on Domino’s video channel with roughly 35,000 views at the time of writing this article. However,…

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Pinterest has introduced recently a way to track user engagement with the site. The Pinterest analytics introduced are fairly basic on the site but they do allow for users to see how many re-pins they have gotten on their content, as well as views. The actual tool itself isn’t necessarily important, but what it suggests…

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Barrack Obama in a recent press conference unfortunately made a mistake that set a lot of nerds on Twitter on fire with humorous jokes. Obama said that he couldn’t ‘Jedi mind-meld’ republicans to agree to his sequester deal. Immediately #Jedimindmeld became a trend on Twitter, because Obama had mistakenly put together Star Trek and Star Wars into…

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GlobeIn is an e-commerce based business which opened beta Wednesday. It links artisans from around the world with prospective buyers through the internet. This, understandably, greatly increases the artisan’s market. One might first think of similar ideas such as the web-market Etsy, but the difference here is that where Etsy charges a small fee to the artisans who…

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