LinkedIn’s acquisition of SlideShare has motivated us to partake in
a little marketing math exercise. Get out your calculators and take
LinkedIn’s 161 million members, then add them to SlideShare’s
combined projected 136 million monthly unique visitors. What do you
get? Enormous potential. While a quantifiable number cannot be
achieved, the B2B landscape has opened [...]
Date Published: May 18, 2012 - 11:08 am
Shopify is hosted e-commerce platform that is used widely by
thousands of retailers online. We are told that there are over
25,000 websites built on the Shopify platform, at the rate of 100
new shops a day! Shopify is an ecommerce solutions
made by designers, for designers. Because of this Shopify got the
bad rap that it [...]
Date Published: May 14, 2012 - 1:46 pm
Google announced its Webspam “Penguin” Update a couple weeks ago
and, akin to The March of the Penguins, businesses both large and
small flocked to SEO professionals for help. As business owners
found themselves up in arms about their website’s disappearance in
the search rankings, the team at New Epic Media had our arms
crossed, [...]
Date Published: May 11, 2012 - 9:28 am
The new Facebook timeline release was followed by the usual
onslaught of fury. Users couldn’t possibly imagine growing accustom
to this new appearance. Lo and behold, everyone has calmed down and
adapted to this change. Most of us have actually become excited
about the changes, rushing to change cover photos and post images
that we [...]
Date Published: May 02, 2012 - 10:00 am
Last week I wrote an article about Google’s algorithm mirroring
somewhat of a moving target. Well, that target has moved to the
Southern Hemisphere, and more specifically, to Antarctica. Once
again Google’s algorithm has restructured to implement its WebSpam
Update, or as Google has now referred to it, the Penguin Update. Go
ahead, laugh it [...]
Date Published: Apr 27, 2012 - 9:38 am
In the last year, Google has rendered over 500 changes to its
algorithm. That means that at least one change is made every single
day. As an SEO professional, these numbers are frightening. How
does a search marketing company keep up with these changes? If
Google’s algorithm is a moving target, why chase it? Well, [...]
Date Published: Apr 20, 2012 - 2:01 pm
Is a picture really worth a billion dollars? Facebook clearly think
so. But were you amongst the thousands who deleted their Instagram
account when Facebook announced their dollarsignr1 billion
acquisition of the photo sharing company? An instant aversion to
this announcement caused a typical social media outburst. Internet
junkies by the masses rushed to their [...]
Date Published: Apr 13, 2012 - 12:00 pm
Meet John. He’s hunched over, sweating, wearing glasses, nose
almost touching his computer screen, Cheetos stains on his t-shirt,
energy drink in hand, and, of course, he’s sitting in the his
garage. He’s your company’s path to amazing search rankings and
increased sales, right? Well, no offense, John, but I think it’s
time to close [...]
Date Published: Apr 06, 2012 - 7:59 am
The time has come for every marketer to turn a deaf ear to the buzz
about email marketing’s funeral. Online marketing today lends
itself to constant change, which, in this space, is generally a
good thing. Tactics are perfected, new technologies mold
strategies, and forward thinking is encouraged. Everyone wants to
be the first to [...]
Date Published: Mar 30, 2012 - 11:36 am
When it comes to content marketing, there is a vast difference
between actual value and perceived value. In a place where SEO
practices seem to change daily, content marketers have caught some
slack. A few years ago, these people were viewed as article
spinners, page fillers, and fluff masters. Today, content writers
are slowly becoming [...]
Date Published: Mar 23, 2012 - 2:55 pm