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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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Take Our 2008 Online Marketing Survey

Recently we conducted an in-person survey at the 2008 NY XPO, where we asked passersby – mostly SMB owners – about how Internet marketing is helping them meet their business objectives. The results were varied, but the survey itself was such a success that we decided to open it up to a larger audience. So [...]

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The Theory of Social Media Marketing Evolution

According to a recently released study by Opinion Research Corporation for Cone, a brand marketer that counts social networking among its capabilities, nearly 60% of Americans who use social media interact with companies on social-media Web sites. This new data comes on the heels of a Vovici Corporation study on behalf of Internet Retailer that [...]

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Is Your Blog Going for the Gold?

A few weeks ago, we posted an article on the benefits of being honest in social-media marketing. It’s a hot topic – the latter more than the former – for many companies contemplating how to further harness the power of the Internet in a valuable yet cost-effective way. We agree with many industry analysts that [...]

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The Rich Don't Always Get Richer

eMarketer released an interesting study today: Apparently, the number of households in the United States with $500,000 in net worth, not including primary residences, decreased by 5% to an estimated 15.6 million in 2008. It’s the first time in six years that the number of affluent households has fallen.

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Corporate Green: Customers Care Whether You're for the Environment

Within the past couple of years, customer surveys often showed that customers did not care whether a company was “green” or not. Some of the latest data from eMarketer may be revealing a new trend. In one of their surveys, the largest percentage (44%) reported that it was “very important” to them to look at [...]

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First Truly Online Olympics Nabs High Ratings

(Photo credit: Xu Jiajun/Xinhua) The 2008 Beijing Olympics has been a huge milestone for the history of the international games: this year had the most online broadcast of the Summer Games ever. Olympic events have been shown on the web but never to this extent, making this year’s the first truly online Olympics ever. And [...]

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Site of the Day: The New Dawn of the Internet as Seen on… Aurora

One interactive media company is offering web users a look into the future, or rather, one possible future. Imagine a galaxy-like desktop with different running programs grouped together like nebula. Or imagine Internet browsers that run semantic analysis on everything you’re viewing and reading. Mozilla is hosting a Labs Concept Series, inviting participants to dream [...]

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SEO Tip: Start From the Drawing Board

One common mistake of online marketing is that the “SEO Experts” and “SEO Specialists” are brought in too late into the process. Instead of thinking of search engine optimization as something you tweak, how about considering it as something you build? What about the SEO Architects? And who would the SEO Architects be? They would [...]

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Job Opening!

We’re Hiring!  Are you the one we want? About Us: Visible Shops is an Internet Marketing Company located in midtown Manhattan, right next to Grand Central. Our firm serves as the Internet marketing department for small businesses (our client base.) We’ve been around for six years and love being great at what we do We’re [...]

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