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How Can Marketers Attract Pre-Teens with Social Media?

by Nichole Kelly · July 13, 2011

Social media has largely been an adult playground for businesses as many of the most popular social networks have age limitations that prevent young children from creating profiles. The reality is that there are definitely pre-teens on Facebook and Twitter, but it is inappropriate for businesses to try and create marketing strategies to attract them there because they are violating the terms and conditions of the site.

So rather than look at how we can break the rules to tap into this audience we will focus on other channels where they spend their time. I’ve been brainstorming about how marketers could use social media to effectively attract the pre-teen market in a positive and supportive way that parents would support.

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Local Social Media And A FREE Social-Loco Ticket

by Adam Helweh · April 12, 2011

In late 2010, at Web 2.0 Summit Google VP of Product Management Susan Wojcicki spent just under 15 minutes presenting new services that Google had recently released (video here) to make the upcoming holiday experience a more enjoyable experience both for shoppers and advertisers. Although much of what she demoed was very interesting, the most telling bit of information was what she shared to set the stage.

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I’m Feeling Lucky, But You’re A Different Story

by Jeff Larche · February 15, 2011

Many web redesign projects are completed without the user experience (UX) people ever talking to the analytics or social media folks. I always knew this was a bad idea, but never so much as last week. My wife and I were driving somewhere and our conversation turned to technology. When I mentioned the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google search page, she stopped me, asking “The what button?” I was flummoxed. Here was someone who teaches computing and is a loyal Google user. Yet this ubiquitous button, the yin to the “Google Search” button’s yang, was invisible to her.

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Why SEO Would Matter Even If Search Engines Stopped Running

by Andrew Hanelly · February 1, 2011

“Isn’t SEO just gaming the search engines?”

If you’ve ever had to make the case for SEO, this Molotov cocktail of cynicism has likely been lobbed your way.

“But good content doesn’t need an SEO strategy.”

Right. It doesn’t. And horses don’t need saddles. But things go a heck of a lot smoother if you have one.

“SEO is just a temporary solution; the way technology changes it’ll be obsolete in a few years anyway.”

Yes, you’re probably right. And this whole Internet fad is probably on its last legs, too.

But I’m not here to make counterarguments to SEO cynics. Because the larger argument is this: Even if Google folded, Bing disappeared, and Yahoo went back to being just another name for crazy, SEO would still matter.

Why? Because the practice of SEO will make your website better, stronger, and easier to use, even if the search engines stopped crawling. Think about it:

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Feedburner Gets Face Lift. Sign Of Things To Come?

by Jason Falls · December 2, 2010

I logged into Feedburner late today to check on some analytics and saw a “Try out the NEW (beta) version!” link at the top. While I don’t claim to even know if this is new-new, as in today new, or if it’s even been written about by others, I figured I’d turn on the camera and let y’all see what I see and talk about it a bit.

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Google Buzz Is Not A Facebook Killer

by Jason Falls · February 11, 2010

Yesterday was a whirlwind of reactions, mostly overreactions, to Google’s latest concoction, Google Buzz. I posted a quick video tour to help people know how to get started before spending the day busy with client meetings. When I was finally able to catch up to the blog posts, Twitter pronouncements and, yes, the Buzz itself, I needed a couple of hours to soak in all the information and do a gut-check to make sure I was the only sane person left.

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