Tag Archives: marketing

Basic Marketing We Often Overlook

I was standing in traffic on the Williamsburg Bridge this past weekend and noticed a flurry of stickers along side the railing. Perfectly eye level. To me it was the ideal form of entertainment. During the next half hour that I spent crawling over the bridge in what was usual New York City traffic I […]

GoDaddy Announces Plans for 2014 Super Bowl Ads

As Super Bowl XLVIII comes around, GoDaddy is getting ready for their latest set of commercials. As has become tradition the last few years, GoDaddy runs 1 or more new commercials during the Super Bowl; last year focusing on the .co domain name. “The Super Bowl ad strategy allows us to have fun and be […]

SiteGround Partners with CrazyEgg

Through a recent partnership with CrazyEgg, SiteGround has decided to assist clients in determining what’s working with their websites’ visitors and what’s not. They’re accomplishing this by offering a 90-day FREE Trial of CrazyEgg’s Original Heat-Mapping Technology, the best-selling website user behavior tool. A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about […]

Bing Collaborates with Klout Creating Personal Snapshots

In an attempt to further help people manage their online presence, Bing has teamed up with Klout to allow for the creation of Bing Personal Snapshots. These act as an expansion to the People Snapshots that Bing had introduced this past March. Personal Snapshots are Klout verified, and pull in data from a person’s LinkedIn […]

Marketing Tips for Promoting Your Blog

Unless you offer something stimulating or unique, you cannot market your blog effectively. Only this can enable you to catch the attention of a large audience. You can make use of the varied tools and resources available online for marketing your blog online. You can have a firm grasp of the needs of your readers […]

Get $25 Off Any eReleases Service Through September 2013

eReleases has once again announced a new $25 off coupon code, valid through the month of September 2013. In-case you’re noticing a pattern here, trust me, so am I. In-fact, I have written about this offer several times here on the Rapid Purple blog. So without further ado simply use coupon code [coupon code=”eReleases SEP8-Z25″ /] […]

Free Stock Photos for Facebook Advertisers

Facebook is always hard at work at making sure their advertisers are making the best use of their platform – and their recent announcement let us know about some great new features that small business owners are sure to fall in love with. I have long been a fan of Facebook advertising. In-fact I had […]

Google Adsense Use Limited on Google Sites

Google Sites is Google’s way of letting everyone and anyone create a free website utilizing a pre-built template, and an online WYSIWYG editor; and of-course Google makes it easy to monetize your Google Sites website with Google Adsense (seeing a pattern here?). In the past you’ve always had full control over your Google Adsense ad […]

Google Now Displaying Favicons for Text Ads

Google is always adding something new to their huge portfolio of features, and recently I have started noticing that their Google Adwords text ads have began displaying the website favicons next to the title. Here is an example from this very website:

Free Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway 2013

All of my clients have always received a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. September of last year I ran a Google Adwords Credits giveaway to help give something back to the community. These were issued out at random to any new subscribers to our mailing list. For those of […]

Use a Tell-A-Friend Script to Drive Traffic To Your Site

More and more webmasters have the recurring dilemma on how to increase the flow of traffic in the websites. During the past few years many methods have been developed to solve this predicament. Over the years marketing has meant so many different things; and there have been so many different ways to do it. One […]

HootSuite Extends Their 50% Off Coupon

[frame align=”left”][/frame]HootSuite has just emailed me letting me know that their awesome 50% off HootSuite Pro and Hootsuite University coupon code which was originally set to expire on June 30th, was extended through to August 1st, 2013! If you have not yet taken advantage of this coupon code, now is a great time to do […]

Getting More Return Visits to Your Mobile Website

Right now having a mobile friendly version of your business website is key in many markets. The thing is that a mobile app can get extremely costly, and as such many smaller businesses simply cannot justify the cost of one. However there is an alternative that I recently came across. While working on the mobile […]

New Animated AdSense Ad Units

I was browsing around the Internet this weekend and came upon something that, to me, seems like the biggest change in Google Adsense that I have seen since I have started using it – almost 8 years ago. Skyscraper and Big Box ad units have a new animated display. When left-alone the ads simply display […]

MailPix Sale on 8×10 Photo Canvas Prints for Only $8

[frame align=”left”][/frame]MailPix offers some of the highest quality and best value for photo products on the internet. People store billions of pictures online and want to use their pictures to create lasting memories. MailPix offers a quality web experience that allows you to print your photos as photo books, photo gifts, photo enlargements and other […]

Google Adwords Retiring Spreadsheet Edit Feature

Google first introduced the edit by spreadsheet feature for Google Adwords back in 2009 in an attempt to make performing bulk changes to your campaigns easier. Since then however Google has  released bulk editing to help you make large-scale changes across your AdWords account, and keyword bulk uploads to help you add, edit and remove keywords at scale. Bulk […]

New HootSuite Pro Coupon Offers 50% Off

[frame align=”left”][/frame]HootSuite has just emailed me to let me know about their latest coupon code good for an awesome 50% off HootSuite Pro and Hootsuite University for 60-days. Combine that with the free 30-day trial – and you get an unbeatable price on Hootsuite Pro for the first 90 days! Keep in mind that Hootsuite […]