by Ken Gaebler, on January 29, 2010, filed under: Marketing, SEO, Web Development
Does your website stink?
If so, it’s probably time
for a website redesign!
When we buy milk at the grocery store, it has an expiration date. We know when that gallon of milk is past its prime.
Determining when a website is past its prime is a different matter altogether. There’s no expiration date per se, but there are [...]
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by Mike Santoro, on January 28, 2010, filed under: Branding, Public Relations, Trends
What did President Obama say during last night’s 2010 State of the Union Address? I put together a word cloud to break out what was said. Jobs and economy were heavily featured with a tilt down improving government and moving past Washington politics.
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by Sky Opila, on January 27, 2010, filed under: Events, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media
Social media plays an important part in your search engine optimization strategy. How you approach your marketing and the power of your brand might influence your social media strategy for search engine ranking. John Fairley discussed this very topic with a group of professionals at a SCORE Chicago event.
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by Lauren Eichmann, on , filed under: Branding, Crisis PR, Events, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Technology
Three experts involved with social media efforts for their respective companies relayed their thoughts at a January 2010 Chicago PR and Marketing Lunch and Learn. Here’s a recap of how social media can be used for business.
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by Evan Maier, on January 26, 2010, filed under: Technology, Trends, Web Development
At this point, chances are you’ve heard of the Apple tablet. Sure, it doesn’t officially exist yet (that will assuredly change tomorrow). But with seemingly every news source on the planet reporting on it, not to mention every Apple fanboy reigniting pre-iPhone era fervor about the unreleased device, its more than unlikely that even the most [...]
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by Mike Santoro, on , filed under: Public Relations
This morning Edelman released their findings from their 2010 Trust research. They found that trust in U.S. business was up 18% from last year. That brought trust in U.S. business to 54%, still behind Sweden (76%), Canada (76%), and Germany (75%), but trending positive. The jump conincides with an increase in trust for the U.S. Government which increased 16%. Edelman credits the increase in trust to an increased candor by CEOs and a commitment to transperancy by companies over the last year.
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by Mike Santoro, on , filed under: Public Relations
On Monday, Gass announced that Walker Sands was the leading vote getter, earning Footprints the title of Agency Blog of the Year. We beat out well known large agencies like Razorfish and Sapient Interactive as well as extremely well designed and well written blogs like AgencyNet’s ANidea and the Russo Group’s Razor Branding Blog.
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by John Fairley, on January 25, 2010, filed under: SEO, Web Development
Not getting enough traffic from search engines? You may have a crawling problem. Crawling your web pages is one of the first, in a series of, steps that search engines must take in order to have your web pages show up in search results. If your pages aren’t crawled, then they won’t show up in the search [...]
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by Guest Blogger, on , filed under: Marketing, News, Public Relations, Technology, Trends
As Google unwrapped its highly touted Nexus One smartphone, widely viewed as the first true iPhone killer, the consumer technology world was salivating with anticipation. The search engine giant had just launched its first direct attack in a battle against rival Apple that has seen a flurry of recent competing acquisitions, as well as the [...]
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by Lauren Eichmann, on January 22, 2010, filed under: News, Public Relations, Walker Sands
Walker Sands is still accepting applicants for our Summer Intern Program. Apply today!
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