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Does your Internet Service Provider Suck?

Thursday, 20 December 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Not long ago, a friend in the community where I lived posted a question in our online community. How good is AT&T U-Verse because Time Warner stinks? I was moved to put pen to paper and thought I’d share the thoughts more publicly: Since I work on the internet, the fact that internet service stinks

Published in Insights / Research

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The Future of the Internet

Thursday, 02 October 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Having pointed out my complete ignorance of the cheerleading world yesterday (“Can I Get an S?”??), I feel I need to steer the laughs, jeers, and finger pointing as far away from me as possible in hopes of staving off the cheer hate mail no doubt being written to me even as we speak. Obviously,

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Published in Fun, Google, Insights / Research

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The Definitive Online Marketing Conferences List

Monday, 15 September 2008 by Paul O'Brien

One of the advantages of working for a local search engine that uses event listings to promote the business listings, is that I have, at my finger tips, a rich index of seminars, summits, and conferences all rank ordered by demand (popularity), based on the search query volume for each. It is amazing what a

Published in Advertising, AI, Conferences / Events, eCommerce, Insights / Research, Local, Mobile, Search, Social Media

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Getting your events and promotions online

Thursday, 14 August 2008 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve had the distinguished honor of having an article featured in this month’s edition of Event Solutions Magazine bringing to their audience some of the most basic online marketing tenants that we so easily forget as still being foreign to most marketers. What are the basics? How does one get started? Here’s an excerpt: Most

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Published in Insights / Research, Local, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search, Social Media

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Who’s at Ad:tech next week?

Friday, 11 April 2008 by Paul O'Brien

ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it one

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Published in Advertising, Conferences / Events, eCommerce, Insights / Research, Local, Search, Social Media

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Online Marketing Heroes

Wednesday, 05 March 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum of

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Banner Ads Work! well… they do something

Wednesday, 30 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

How many can name the product from last banner ad they saw? Chances are, none of you. But according to what I found through ars technica, that’s okay. The Journal of Consumer Research published findings that repeated exposure to banner ads results in positive feelings for that which is advertised. They asked students to read