Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users
Everyone’s favorite social media can-do giant Facebook hit 1 billion users last week. Despite shaky ratings in recent months – and its notoriously troublesome debut on the stock market last May (as of August, it fell to half its public offering price) – the landmark prompted CEO Mark Zuckerberg to announce it as his own […]
Does Your Website Need a Makeover?
Reasons to revamp your website may range from just being sick of sameness to suspecting that it’s not performing to its maximum ability. Before you engage in the process of giving your website a makeover, it’s important to figure out what your goals are and determine how much time and money you’re willing to invest. […]
Are Facebook Ads Relevant? General Motors Says ‘No’
Yesterday, car manufacturer and longtime advertiser General Motors hit reverse and pulled out of its advertising contract with Facebook. The company announced that this decision was due to poor performance and low ROI. This decision also followed closely on the heels of an MSNBC report showing that Facebook users don’t really trust the paid promotion […]
Step-by-Step: Creating Google Alerts
Last week we talked about why and how Google Alerts is an important tool when it comes to brand marketing and management. So now are you ready to try it out? Here’s how to do it: 1. Visit Google.com/alerts 2. There are five forms to fill out: • Search query (the word or phrase as […]
How to Create a Google Alert – and Why
Whether it’s from a vendor, customer or your competition, you want to know about the word-of-mouth buzz going on about you. And honest feedback isn’t always easy to receive. People are not always going to head to the source by calling you, visiting your website or putting a message on your Facebook business page wall. […]
Google AdWords: New & Upcoming
Starting this month and continuing over the next few weeks, Google AdWords is introducing some changes that are meant to make it even easier to use the popular website-promoting and ad-placement tool. As ever, the latest slew of updates targets two critical factors: becoming more accurate and becoming more user-friendly. The primary adjustment is to […]
Tips for Personal Branding – Part 2
Last week we started discussing the ways you can build your personal brand. First you want to discover the traits about yourself that you wish to turn into your dominant brand characteristics. Then you want to define those by using words and phrases that tie into your overall message. That’s what will trickle down through […]
M4M: Looking Ahead at 2012
As the new year kicks off, we’re looking at some exciting growth and new developments around the office at Mad 4 Marketing. One thing we started at the end of 2011 was staffing up the company, which included introducing new team member Damon. Damon has been professionally involved with the Internet since the early 1990s […]
Gift Advertising: Thinking Outside of the Box
With the holidays wrapping up, we began to think creatively about some of the missed marketing opportunities from the recent weeks. Creative businesses might be able to take advantage of corporate gifting in ways they’ve never thought of before. Here are just a few ideas: 1. Wrapping. Have you ever designed your own wrapping paper? […]
Shopping on Cyber Monday
How are shoppers supposed to navigate all those ads hitting their inbox and flooding their computer screen today? With so much commercialism competing for the same wallets on Cyber Monday, it’s hard to sort through the buzzwords and price tags to determine what’s really a great deal. Reduced costs aren’t enough to help buyers decide […]