Snapchat is extremely popular these days, with over 100 million users watching more than 6 billion Snapchat clips DAILY. With all those eyes, Snapchat geofilters have been a great way for businesses to obtain user-generated content and let their customers do the marketing work for them. In-fact when applied creatively, with some proper outside-the-box thinking, […]
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Google’s Multi-Billion Dollar Fine Bad News For Company, Good News For Everyone Else
Google got hit with one of the largest fines in corporate history with the European Union demanding 2.42 billion euro (2.7 billion dollars). So what’s the cause? Google has been favoring its own “Google Shopping” service over other similar services, a practice which the EU has determined to be anti-competitive. These services allow users to […]
Facebook Hits 2 Billion Active Monthly Users
Earlier this morning Facebook hit a huge milestone. 2 billion active monthly users. 2 BILLION. 800 million of those people like something, and over 175 million people love something, daily. That’s a lot of activity, and yet another supporting point in why social media is so important for businesses. The growth is significant – considering that […]
Infographic: Top 25 Most Expensive Google AdWords Keywords
More and more businesses are turning to PPC advertising these days, and that means that keyword research is more important than ever. Choosing the right set of keywords can be the difference between wasting your budget entirely and getting the most out of your Google AdWords campaign. To help out, WordStream has put together the […]
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Top 5 Community Builder Platforms of 2017
Even though the world is pretty set on social networks, what with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others already sharing most of the pie. However online communities are more popular than ever as people look to carve out their own little place online. A place where like-minded individuals can get together and discuss relevant news […]
Google Promises to Give Webmasters Voice Search Analytics
Those of you who follow me on Facebook probably saw my post a few days ago talking about the effects that voice search is having on the world of SEO. Fact is that voice search popularity is steadily increasing. Even Forbes has stated that 2017 is the year of voice search. As such you can […]
Facebook Is Rolling Out Video Covers Instead of Photo Covers
Facebook has been heavily focusing on video content for a while now. Recently they have started testing out letting pages utilize videos as their Facebook cover photo – which introduces some amazing new marketing opportunities. The new video cover starts to play as soon as a Facebook page loads, and works across desktop and mobile […]
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Internet Trends 2017 Report Shows Slowing Internet Growth
The State of the Internet Trends Report for 2017 has been published, showcasing some pretty interesting information. Global smartphone growth is slowing, along with general Internet growth. Ad blocking is up to 18% for desktop users in USA and 24% in Canada. Voice search is up to 20% of mobile queries. China and India remain huge […]
Pingdom Launches Server Monitoring
Pingdom, the place you usually go to test how fast your website is loading, is now capable of offering full blown server monitoring! Thanks to a recent acquisition of Scout’s SaaS-based server monitoring technology, Pingdom has rolled out SolarWinds Pingdom Server Monitor – a full fledged server monitoring system complete with detailed metrics, SMS alerts, […]
5 Must Have WordPress Optimization Plugins For A Fast Loading Website
Having a fast loading website is essential these days. First off, users are impatient. If it takes too long for your website to load up, people are simply going to click away and go somewhere else. Attention spans are shorter than ever, and a slow website can result in much more than just less visitors […]
Infographic: Why Learn Kotlin?
Now that Google has announced their official support for Kotlin as an Android development language there’s more reasons than ever to learn it. The new language was developed by JetBrains and runs on the Java Virtual Machine, and is steadily increasing in popularity. Plus Google has already announced that Android Studio 3.0 will feature Kotlin […]
News Is About To Become An Even Bigger Part of Your Facebook Newsfeed
News is hitting Facebook in a major way. The social network just announced the roll out of several design changes meant to showcase trending news in more prominent ways. Even more than that – the new changes now let multiple publishers be showcased for a trending topic! The results page for a trending topic (the page […]
Bing Launchs Free Chat Bots For Restaurants
Bots are set to be the next big thing in marketing as more and more companies begin to incorporate chat bots into their campaigns. Bing is capitalizing on this growing trend by introducing a bot-powered chat system – enabled for most restaurant businesses across the United States. This lets users ask questions straight from Bing search […]
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Direct Mail Marketing Is Very Much Alive – If You Do It Right
Direct mail marketing has been around forever, and as we hit the middle of 2017 I find myself being asked more and more frequently: “does direct mail marketing still work?” It’s a valid question – especially in an age where more and more people rely on the internet for communication. Interestingly enough it’s because of […]
What Are Instagram Pods & How Do You Join One
Instagram pods, or insta pods, are becoming all the craze now that Instagram has changed the order in which they display posts. Instead of showing posts in a chronological order like in the past, Instagram now utilizes a proprietary algorithm to try to determine which posts you would rather see. This has caused quite a […]
Google Rolls Out Verified Customer Reviews
Reviews are a great way to make sure your business stands out on Google, and Google just changed the game. Verified Customer Reviews lets your users leave a review directly after making a purchase from your website. These reviews then go to grow your overall review rating on Google, as well as your seller rating […]