Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Twitter has released its "list" feature and I think it has some potential to be a very useful tool in the context of a Twitter marketing campaign. It lets you create lists of other Twitter users. A separate Twitter sub-page is then created where people can view the updates from those on the list. If you follow lots and lots (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: I'll admit. I've seen those cool Flash ads that have things you can click or that provide some kind of interaction with the user and always thought they seemed really cool and something that we could take advantage of for our clients...if we had time to do such a thing. But I always thought those things were created in Flas (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Jerry Work here. I have returned to the business of finishing our next book, on the subject of social media marketing. It has been 90% written for a couple of months; I just haven't had the enthusiasm for the project to finish. But I've rededicated myself to getting it done and out to the public.It's funny...as I read throu (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: We have been heavily involved in a Flex widget development project this week. I have to say...Flex is a very, very cool technology. I plead ignorance...when I used to see dynamic Flash banner ads on search engine or content pages, I just assumed they were developed by Flash developers. Now I know the truth...They are using (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Guys, I'm sorry. I just can't keep these blogs updated lately. Things have gotten very busy around the office. We're in a bit of a growth spurt and things are quite busy around the office. I really hope to find more time in the coming weeks to start updating our blogs more often and teaching some things. Teaching...let's se (Read More)

Sep 23, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: One thing I've noticed in various junk marketing emails I've received lately is that email marketers have started using tiny URLs in their email messages. A tiny URL is basically a URL that is routed through another service that knows what the actual URL is supposed to be and directs the visitor to the right page. The reaso (Read More)

Sep 02, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Google has been doing some things lately with its index that have caused quite a bit of shuffling of rankings. However, what we are finding is that, in general, in a few days things get restored to something like what they were before. So if you have high rankings that have suddenly disappeared, chances are pretty good you (Read More)

Aug 26, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Jerry here. Man, I have been knee-deep in code for weeks now. Sometimes I curse having a background in programming. But the fact is, my having that experience is invaluable. One thing Work Media prides itself on is our flexibility in being able to help someone with their problems, no matter what they are.Need a new web site (Read More)

Aug 19, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: The deeper we dig into the Twitter world, the more different ways we are finding to take advantage of it. I (this is Jerry) have to admit that I am much more intrigued by Twitter than I am with Facebook. I have yet to really realize the benefit of Facebook, although admittedly part of it is that I just haven't put that much (Read More)

Aug 13, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Here is a trick of the SEO trade:To demonstrate your skill in SEO by achieving a very high search engine ranking for a very low competition keyword.Look, if your site ranks well for a keyword that noone ever uses, have you really accomplished anything? No! My partner relays an interesting story from his days at CJ Marketing (Read More)

Aug 05, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: There is a classic business metaphor that associates being in business with walking down a hallway with lots of doors. Just walking down the hallway (the state of conducting some kind of business) will reveal opportunities that you could not see until you walked down the hall. In other words, moving forward with some kind (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Work media is enjoying our new office located in downtown Dickson. Our productivity is up and our travel time is way down. We can all get to the office in 15 minutes or less, which uses more time to spend researching Internet Marketing strategies and applying them to our clients accounts. If any of you ever find yourself (Read More)

Jul 22, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Once your Twitter account gets up to a couple thousand followers, it can be difficult to manage. Unless you're rich and don't have anything better to do, you can't really sit around all day and do nothing but read tweets. However, checking out what the people you follow are saying is sort-of the whole point of Twitter's exi (Read More)

Jul 13, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: Using a tool like Ping.fm, you can integrate your blog, your Twitter account, and your Facebook account. We're talking about dynamically combining content from multiple sources into content for a third or more web page.Here is a hypothetical example.Let's say I run an Internet marketing company in Nashville...wait a minute, (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

Submitted by Workmedia from blog: This weekend, it seems that many thousands of Twitter users had their accounts suspended for no reason. Twitter's excuse is that there was a "spamcloud" that had to be dealt with...So, my first question is: what the heck is a spamcloud?My second question is: is the only way to deal with it really shutting down the accounts (Read More)

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