Creating a stripped down version of emotional marketing text can serve as a vehicle for moving to a new destination language by freeing it from the burden of carrying nuance during translation.
Mike Dorausch (aka @chiropractic) drives home the point of local reviews being a huge deal for local businesses on today’s USA today. Congrats Mike on the front page of USA Today.
They say playing the lottery is a “special tax” for the “math challenged.” I think that’s true. In the search world Google’s new Automatic Matching setup is a special tax on the uninformed advertiser. What I’m hearing about the new Google Automatic Matching beta is that they will look at unspent funds in your account,…
I have six professional heroes presently – and I don’t mind sharing. In random order, they are: Seth Godin – For telling me to quit dead ends and focus on being the best. Edward Tufte – Guided me into information design, recognizing and avoiding chartjunk, and telling stories visually. Jakob Nielson – For telling it…
We can draw a parallel between SEO advice and building permitting. Pressures placed on any web development project can cause marketing goals to be conveniently ignored, just like marketing goals, building codes and standards. Paid search ends up the beneficiary when an “un-optimizable” site results.
There is plenty of buzz out there about how the economy is slowing. Companies will begin pulling back on expenses and unfortunately cut on staff, too, if it gets worse. But smart companies know that there is no better time to surge forward and leave competition wondering what happened. Social marketing, with authentic messages, is…