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Social Networking and Your Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama

Social Networking and Your Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama Perhaps we can turn to one of the most famous men in the world to educate us about the merits of Social Networking and business: Barack Obama. Obama’s campaign was able to market its brand through Social Networking to gain a sizable and distinct advantage over its political [...]

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HiringTheInternet has been nominated for an acclaimed BlogNet Award for January! Help us in our quest for blogging glory by voting for our blog in this month’s contest. With over 1,300 monthly viewers we are extremely excited about this nomination and appreciate the abundant support we’ve received over the years. Thank you. Quick! Easy! Vote [...]

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Don't Underestimate the Power of Offline Marketing

A few weeks ago we published a post on Staples’ “Gift It For Free” Sweepstakes, a contest that promises 10,000 winners. We discovered the campaign while standing in front of our building in Manhattan as a school bus drove by with only the sweepstakes’ Web address – www.GiftItForFree.com – scrawled across the windows. Such enigmatic [...]

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Poll: Best Week for E-Commerce Holiday Sales

We’ve written a lot about holiday marketing lately, and we figured it’s time to find out how other online marketers are faring in the face of the financial crunch. As we previously reported, Cyber Monday made gains this year, but according to industry analysts the highest sales of the season may not have come until [...]

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A Little Holiday Gratitude Can Go a Long Way

UPDATED:  WE thought we should add our own holiday greeting email for you to see: Internet marketing at holiday time isn’t just about percentages off and free-shipping coupon codes. Sometimes (biiiiig emphasis on sometimes), customers are content with a greeting that simply shows a measure of gratitude for their loyalty. Take a look at our [...]

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Is Inbound Marketing the Dawn of a New Era?

Internet marketing company Hubspot published a blog post recently on inbound marketing – that is, marketing focused on being found by customers – and how, because of the global economic crisis, it’s starting to replace outbound (or traditional) marketing, which helps companies find customers. In fact, the folks at Hubspot have so much confidence in [...]

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Whitepaper on E-mail Marketing for SMBs Now Available

It’s no surprise that more and more companies are turning to the Internet to get the word out about their services. Tough economic times have taken its toll on small- and medium-sized businesses, forcing them to make more informed, cost-effective decisions regarding their marketing efforts. Kelsey Group, a Princeton, N.J., local search and directory research [...]

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Hallelujah! Cyber Monday Made Gains

Cyber Monday wasn’t a bust! In fact, the unofficial kickoff to the online holiday buying season made significant gains over last year. And that’s not even the best news. “People are expecting that deals will only get better as we approach the Christmas time frame,” explained Youssef H. Squali, an analyst at Jeffries & Co., [...]

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Surprise! Oprah = Higher Open Rate

The results of a last-minute e-mail campaign earlier this month for client Sarabeth’s Kitchen just goes to show that send days and times are all relative. Especially when Oprah is involved. When we learned that Sarabeth’s Legendary Spreadable Fruit was featured in the current issue of O, The Oprah Magazine as one of Oprah’s Top [...]

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10,001 Winners: Staples Scores With Clever Viral Campaign

True story: A school bus passed by our building in Midtown Manhattan the other day, and scrawled across its windows – running the length of the big yellow machine – were phrases like “10,000 Winners? That’s Not Right!” Curiosity piqued, we ran to our office to visit the Web site that accompanied the enigmatic advertising: [...]

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