With the way our current social media is diluted with various websites that are geared towards making friends and meeting up with old ones, it is hard to say if Facebook will really end up being the champion in the end. Not since the Google explosion has the there been an Internet trend that is so widespread […]
photo credit: ralphhogaboom A study of online marketing habits by research company ForeSee Results revealed this week that only 3 per cent of the traffic that commercial websites receive comes from social media sources such as Twitter or Facebook. The researchers warned that these findings showed that the vast majority of companies are failing to […]
Multimedia search website Startup Qwiki finally opened to the public last week following an injection of some $8 million in funds. Startup Qwiki was created by Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of social networking phenomenon Facebook, and the co-founder of YouTube Jawed Karim, but until now has only been available to private users. photo credit: BrixFoto, However […]
An online marketing expert said recently that search engine giant Google is very unlikely to allow advertising hosted by social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Bigmouthmedia head of strategy Andrew Girdwood argued that allowing social networks’ ads on Google’s pages would weaken the company’s own position. Currently, Google is carrying adverts from the […]
Online marketing expert Craig MacDonald said this week that Facebook will be the place to be seen in 2011, with an expected surge in the number of companies advertising on the social network. In an article for Search Engine Watch, Mr MacDonald estimated that online marketing departments are going to devote up to 20 per […]
photo credit: David Boyle One online marketing expert has made his predictions for the major areas of interest in the sector set to dominate the New Year. Hit Search founder Andrew Redfern said that copywriting skills will become “more important than ever” in 2011 as quality of content starts to be the decider in many […]
An internet expert said today that online marketing professionals – and indeed all marketing professionals – need to raise their game and prepare for the vast potential of social media. Dan Oliver, who is the editor-in-chief of .net magazine, admitted that at the moment it is early days for online advertising and marketing via social […]
