Pop Labs Conversion Closing Rap
Sunday, 06 April 2008
Poetic Prophet, Chuck, a Pop Labs super star and viral marketing genius (though they deal in SEO and search marketing) is turning interactive marketing concepts into original music. Here, a rap about making the right choices in your online marketing campaigns to increase not only traffic but the conversions you get. I’m looking forward to
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Large Scale Bid Management – Pubcon 2007 session digest
Friday, 14 December 2007
After a nightmare traveling (I haven’t had much luck lately) with 6 hours to go from SFO to Las Vegas, I arrived only in time for the Tuesday afternoon session, “Large scale bid management”. I was anxious to listen in having done that very thing at HP and now find myself starting such campaigns again.
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Traditional Marketers Don’t Get It
Thursday, 11 October 2007
IBM Distinguished Engineer Mike Moran had the forethought to more eloquently title an article, “Why Search Marketing Is So Hard,” but what it comes down to, in understanding why some marketers can’t catch on, is how search works. That search marketing is a radically different, alien form of advertising, to traditional marketers. What is second nature to
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Is Your Paid Seach Vendor Ignorant (or Incompetent)?
Thursday, 04 October 2007
Recently, paid search vendors have been an object of my scrutiny. In the process, I’ve been alarmed at the significant variation in capabilities between them as they make wild claims and in order to win business. One capability (or rather, incapability) repeatedly stuck out at numerous agencies; this angered me so much that I want
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Trademark terms in Paid Search
Monday, 07 May 2007
This point of view has been a few days coming as the implications of a U.S. District Court in NY ruling in April have yet to be realized. I hope you are paying attention. A couple weeks ago, Judge Thomas J. McAvoy ruled for John Hamzik, who holds a trademark on “The Dating Ring,” against
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The Industry’s Nerve Center
Saturday, 28 April 2007
Though Peppered with rumor and negative PR, Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick remains, as far as I’m concerned, one of the most important, recent developments in online marketing. Stuart Frankel, President of Performics, responded quickly to speculation of a Performics dissolution with concise reassurance of their alignment with DoubleClick and Google and position as a leading
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Search Marketing is Reputation Management
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
I was wrestling with the concept of the value of Paid Search for Branding over the weekend as I contemplated the limitations of performance based bid management. As a fan of performance based bidding, I believe all search programs should be managed as such with even obscure objectives, such as creating awareness or branding, leveraging
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