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Are You (Inadvertently) Marketing to Children?

by David Dennis

This is not news, but you might be unaware: back in 2004, the states of Utah and Michigan enacted Child Protection Registry Acts. The goal was to prevent inappropriate content from getting through to minors — including references to alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or pornographic content. The vehicle for achieving this is a [...]

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Google Levels the Playing Field for Real Time Search

by Lindsay Stough

Google recently announced that their real time search will now include Facebook status updates.  Google’s real time search, launched in December 2009, shows up-to-the-second search results including tweets on Twitter, relevant blog posts and activity on other social media platforms.  Facebook, though announced as one of the Google’s real time search partners in December, was [...]

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What is your Online Persona?

by Lindsay Stough

When embarking on a social media marketing campaign, one of the factors that you need to consider is your company’s online persona.  Businesses, like people, have a particular persona that represents their brand in the real world.  In social media, your online persona is extremely important due to the conversational nature of the platforms and [...]

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How Will Google Buzz Impact SEO?

by Michael Zukewich

In case you haven’t opened your Gmail account in the past week, on February 9th, Google released its brand new social platform, Google Buzz.  Buzz is Google’s approach to sharing relevant information that matters most to you and your contacts.  So what’s all the buzz about?  Google is the search leader and they do it [...]

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How to Beat the Big Boys…

by Stan Smith

Pure Michigan has received a lot of credit for its marketing program lately.
It looks like michigan.org will seal another year as the nation’s #1 Visited State Tourism Website.
And, within just 90 days of launch, michigan.org was rated the #1 Social Media Program (Gammet Interactive) for its aggressive push into social networking – boasting 20,000+ fans on their Facebook [...]

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Use PPC To Inform SEO For Internet Marketing Results

by Melissa Mackey

You’ve spent months building the website for your new online business, and now you’re ready to do some internet marketing.  You’ve heard about pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO), and you know that both will help you show up on Google and other search engines.  But which one do you do first?
At Fluency Media, [...]

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Email is Not a Commodity

by David Dennis

What does email marketing cost? A penny per email? Half a penny? And what does that really get you? If you send out a ‘blast’, you can always expect some response (and perhaps even an outstanding ROI). However, email is not a typical media buy with an easy to predict, CPM cause-and-effect. The right investment [...]

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Facebook: The Charitable Psychic?

by Trisha Verma

Facebook is making waves again in our industry by rolling out yet another set of privacy changes.  The most interesting part of this isn’t the changes themselves, but founder Mark Zuckerberg’s explanation of them.  Zuckerberg claims clairvoyance and a sense of generosity fueled the decision to change Facebook users’ privacy settings, making all of their [...]

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Marketing Sherpa Shines Light on Travel Michigan Email Success

by Stan Smith

We’re tooting our own horn here.  It’s not often that you can catch Marketing Sherpa’s attention, that’s why we’re proud to brag a bit with our client, Travel Michigan.
Here’s the story –
Last year, we were asked to dramatically boost the effectiveness of the Travel Michigan email program.  A multi-million dollar media buy was in the [...]

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Fluency Media Gives 2010 PPC Expert Predictions

by Melissa Mackey

Last week, I had the honor of joining several of my PPC colleagues in sharing our 2010 pay per click advertising predictions on the PPC Rockstars podcast.
Some of the predictions on the show were pretty far out there – take a listen and see if you agree! Feel free to share your predictions in the [...]

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