Yesterday Laura Bergells and I taught a Social Media Marketing Intro class at ITT Tech. We had a really good turn out and there was a lot of enthusiasm in the air. We are planning on doing future class so stay tuned!
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LinkedIn is now worth over 1 Billion dollars. According to Business Week:
“The professional networking site, home to some 23 million affluent users who sign up to find jobs, hire talent, and connect on projects, is about to become one of the select few social-media companies to attain a valuation of more than $1 billion.” Read [...]
Yesterday I got my issue of the Grand Rapids Business Journal and found an interesting article entitled “Web Ads Going Local”. There was nothing in the article that we at ManoByte have not been saying for along time. But the article did emphasize two points that we have been saying and that are worth repeating. [...]
Personal I have never watched a single episode of “Family Guy” but you would have to be from Mars not to have heard of the Show. Well according to the New York Times, “In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy” on television, will unveil a carefully guarded new project called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade [...]
OK, I am sorry. It was not my intention to post this, just because everyone has already. The SEO Rapper has some offers some excellent rules for website design. I went out to the websites of top 10 marketing companies in Grand Rapids and I thought they would appreciate this post.
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It is time to put your money were your mouth is. Tom Blue wrote an interesting article comparing the results of advertising on the radio verses Internet Marketing the results were pretty amazing
Radio Advertising Monthly Budget $13,000 per month for 3 Months Total Spent $39,000 plus cost to create the ad.
Adwords Monthly Budget $400 – [...]
I have a loan officer who does not live in Grand Rapids, who sends me direct mail once a month. For awhile I opened the letters thinking that there was something of value in the mailings, but now I don’t even open the letters.
OK, here is the good thing about her Marketing efforts; she is [...]
I have a fundamental problem with several names that describe technology. I think that some of the great names that IT folks have come up with fall short from meeting business expectations.
Take for instance BI (Business Intelligence) great name and it has a lot of potential to live up to its name but the problem [...]
3M is demonstrating an excellent example of MANO (Marketing, Advertising, Networking, Online). They are giving away $10,000 for the best consumer generated commercial for Post-It notes as judged by the online network of consumers. Of course this is going to create a lot of buzz. This is brilliant from a variety of perspectives.
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1) Just think [...]
We moved to Grand Rapids 2 years ago and my wife still drives almost an hour to go to the doctor in East Lansing. She just has not been able to find a doctor here. Finding a doctor is like finding a date or a mate. A slight difference being that even though you may [...]
