Top 5 Tips on Promoting Your Online Presence Offline

On July 20th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

Whether or not you’ve been following this Internet marketing blog (which we hope you’ve been), it has now become obvious how huge a role online presence plays in helping businesses succeed. Increase web traffic, generate more sales and opportunities, and increase profits: it’s a simple equation. But it’s also one that can be solved using [...]

Here Comes Google TV

On July 13th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

What happens if the best of the Internet and television came together? This is the question that search giant Google aims to answer as it launches Google TV, a new service that combines television programming with search capabilities and rich Web applications. The recent announcement by the company revealed that the service is developed in partnership [...]

Anatomy of a Retweetable Tweet

On June 29th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

“Retweetable tweet”? Okay, we’ll be the first to admit it’s a silly title. Five years ago no one would have had any idea what we’re talking about. But if you’ve been keeping up with what’s happening on the web, chances are you have heard of the many positive, non-silly things social media can bring to [...]

What You Should Know Before Hiring a Social Media Manager

On June 22nd, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

Social media marketing is an essential part of many businesses and organizations today – regardless of size. The Internet has grown so much more community-focused, so much more social, that if one were to truly establish and enhance the online presence of a company or brand, there’d be no way of doing it without social [...]

Top 6 Reasons Why You Should Use URL Shortener Bit.ly

On May 12th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

Rising along with the popularity of Twitter as well as other instant messaging services with character limits are services for URL shortening. There are hundreds of services on the Web for this, letting people use the smallest space possible for sharing and linking to content. Some of them generate shorter links; some come with bars [...]

We Got Next: Potential Social Media Darlings after Twitter and Facebook

On April 30th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

In recent times we’ve seen social media grow exponentially fast. Thanks to quick Internet adoption and the advancement of mobile technologies, hundreds of millions of people are now part of social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These two sites in particular have enjoyed an incredible amount of attention, but we must understand that they form [...]

Questions to Ask Before You Launch Your Viral Campaign

On April 25th, 2010, Ryan Powszok wrote:

A viral marketing campaign is one of today’s best (and most cost-effective) ways to let people know about your business. It can take on many forms, like videos, pictures, interactive Flash games, e-books, and even text messages. If done properly and executed creatively, your viral marketing campaign can excite immediate word-of-mouth enthusiasm from people. It [...]

Give Posterous A Look

On April 13th, 2010, Brandon Zeman wrote:

While Twitter, and more recently Foursquare, have been the darlings of the social media world in recent memory, an outstanding and arguably more practical service has been quietly kicking butt. That service is Posterous. What is Posterous? At its simplest, Posterous is another blogging platform. But unlike most blogging platforms, the primary method of posting [...]