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Real Name: Brandon Evans
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Internet Marketing Specialist
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Because who has time to email links or write notes. It's a great note pad for me to use to review my own notes as I come across things that are helpful. Plus, it's public, so it's my hope that what I find useful so to will others.
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Everyone is Talking about Social Media...but how many of us are actually using it?
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 Good stats to keep in mind
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Before you Go Social, Make sure you're not Socially Inept. Rules of Engagment and Damage Control
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 Great things to keep in mind when you're trying to take your opinions, your business, your products or services, your 'whatever' online and to the masses via blogs and personal websites.
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May 2009 most popular Blogging/Personal Websites
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 I'm amazed that PerezHilton and PopEater Music Blog are in the top ten, especially when noting Blogger and MySpace.com Blogs, and LiveJournal are HUGE sites, a collection of massed together blogs.
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Email Marketing Spend to reach $2 Billion by 2014.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 Definitely agree that email as a marketing channel needs to better integrate into social media. My bets on gmail being the big winner on that front.
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The Once and Past King of Social Networking: MySpace cuts deep and digs in against Facebook.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 As a marketing channel, MySpace was always too risque for most businesses to "network" in. Even from a personal standpoint. Social Media is quickly becoming a "middle age" activity, so MySpace has to mature is face before it can take on Facebook.
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Smarter Phones and the Rise of Streaming Content: Future Cash Cow for Marketers
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-17-2009   
 With the rise of smart phones, faster networks, and the better quality of digital media, it's no small wonder that this channel will be an important one in the coming years.
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Round One: Bing versus Google. What's happened since the sound of the bell? Whose winning?
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-16-2009   
 Pretty obvious stuff, but interesting.
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Marketing's New Religion. Conversion the Metric of Choice.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 All I can say is no kidding. Conversions means dollars, as in return on dollars spent for the conversions. Though "knowing your brand" by impressions, etc...could still lead to conversions in the long term making it harder to track relevancy.
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The End of the Recession Gold Rush. Survey shows rise of ad dollars as the recession nears end
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 Interesting stats on what marketing channels marketers and companies still believe to be the best for long-term branding. And how to measure the health of a brand.
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People have gone mobile (like 5 years ago) Why hasn't your Website? How to make your content mobile.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 Here's an article that clearly underscores why businesses and website owners have to make sure they have a mobile plan for their web content. Do you recreate the entire site (.mobi) and risk duplicate content, or no follow the entire site and risk not getting picked up in the mobile search? Do you practice content negotiation where the server decides how to serve up your content? Find out how at www.icoastalnet.com and take your web content mobile.
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Like you needed an excuse to buy a smart phone. ShopSavvy unveals new Barecode-scanning 3.5.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 With this technology on Android, with a compliance pending for the Apple iPhone, this gadget could change the face of consumer shopping behaviors..
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Social Media Grows in Spend among Interactive Marketers despite the recession.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 Everyone wants to jump on the social media band wagon, but if you're a business looking to leap...get some help before you take the plunge. Check out www.Icoastalnet.com Social Media Marketing package today.
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Grow your Own. Email List Acquistion Strategies, the Do's, Don'ts, and LIES.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 The purchase list do find relevancy with marketing strategies, a "guest history", officially opted in email database beats it in opens, reads, and conversion hands down, every time. But, of course sometimes it's easier to BUY then to BUILD. Here's how to start building better and faster email lists for your business.
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Go ahead. Steal it. We dare you. Google and Yahoo add Creative Commons Filtering to Image search.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 Now you can fill in your web pages with "real" stock photography. Maybe by people, legally borrowed by businesses and organizations.
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Whose Driving Twitter? Men and Women...and Why? Studies show surprising results. Find out more.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-15-2009   
 Great stats on the generic behavior of the sexes in Twitter (specifically) and Facebook and other social networks. This information could help you refine your engagement activities from a marketing standpoint.
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SEO. Answering the question(s) you don't like to answer. How long will it take to show results?
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-12-2009   
 Who can blame a business for asking this question in regards to SEO. After all, that's what they're paying for...results. This article is accurately sums up the answer (or lack there of). There are no absolutes when it somes to SEO because you are chasing something that wants to stay hidden and will change as soon as it feels it's been figured out - the algorithm. My recommendation for any SEO company or specialist is to sell the reality of SEO. There's no secret magic to SEO, just technical know how and proven tactics. (both things few businesses have when it comes to websites and search engines).
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Blackhat SEO: Website Hijacking through outdated code. U.S. could be next.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-11-2009   
 Though this article obviously unearthed the problem in the UK, I wouldn't doubt that it's coming across the pond (or already has). After all the UK is much more tech savvy than the US. Good lesson to learn. Always update your software, code, feeds, browsers, apps, etc. There are bad people everywhere, not just in the UK
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Twitter Lessons: Shoot for the Boom and Avoid the Bust
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-11-2009   
 Great examples of how certain companies are using Twitter to leverage their brand.
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The race is one. Facebook Vanity URLs can take you to the top...of the SERPs that is
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-10-2009   
 As the article promises, I hope Facebook works hard to stop name squatting. And that the vanity URLs are for PEOPLE, not businesses.
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How to Add an RSS feed to your iGoogle Page in Five Easy Steps
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 how to. easy. check it out.
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How to get the most SEO mileage out Website Navigation. How to Plan, What to do, What not to do
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 Great insight. Always run across this debate when going through the design and development stage with clients. You could use also use "robot navigation" footer link navigation. Visible to the search engines, mostly ignored by web visitors.
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Adobe Places Bet on Bringing Flash to Mobile Devices.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 Beyond the implications for games and video, what would it mean for mobile formatted websites. Are those going the way of the Dodo, or would a change like this produce a hybrid. Web version, Mobile version (for less than 3G network devices) and those websites formatted in size, but not necessarily in overall load time.
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The New Apple of Marketings Eye: iPhone 3GS, What's New and What does it mean for marketers
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 Great article. Goes over Apple's new upgrade announcements for the iPhone 3GS.
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Picking up the Pieces: Going Digital means Segemented Media Channels
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 Great article, with some great examples.
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Twitter Tips for Effective Customer Service
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-9-2009   
 I've always said Twitter (along with all Social Media in general) is great for four reason. Customer Retention, Customer Acquisition, Online Reputation , and Search Engine Optimization (namely backlink strategies.
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iPhone App company integrates Social components in banner ad formats
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 Again. Engagement. Enough said.
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Get Personal. Go Local. Target's Tests Localization in Emails
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 Again, seems obvious enough. Goes back to the death of one-size-fits-all advertising. Don't just blast, engage. And most email delivery systems (reputable and/or well built ones) can handle segmentation.
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Cool New Facebook e-Commerce Platform, Now in Beta.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 Good for Facebook. They need to generate some profit so they can stay free.
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Another New google Launch. Local Business Center.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 All I can say, it's about time.
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One big ocean. Thousands of tiny ponds. The death of one-size advertising
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 It's a common thread. Segmentation. Usually not measured up as a positive (because it makes things more difficult, supposedly) segmentation is the bi-product of media saturation. Where not livining in a one color television, one network, one newspaper kind of world any more. There are so many outlets that people have their eyes on these days, you have to find the brights spots, the best rabbit holes. And the easiest way to do that is by behavior. That market may have gotten fragmented but you can easily find out a persons behavior just by gleaning a few tweets. Where they live, what they eat, where they shop, who they like, who they don't like. Think of it this way. As marketers, we're no longer like Sisyphus pushing ONE huge rock up a hill, we're juggling a dozen or more pebbles riding a unicycle across a tight wire.
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The Twitter Contingency: What if in 140 characters or less
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 You have to read the whole article, but very informative. Great groundwork kind of stuff. Some business don't even really know how to send out OFFERS in a non-perfunctory way.
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Questions to Ask when Redesigning your Website
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 Four great examples of going beyond just "making it look better." You wouldn't just rip down your office building for a better paint job, would you?
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Why Banner Ads No Longer Engage
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 Seems pretty obvious, but people always stick with the easiest possible solution. but why should your ad deliveries and formats change with the segmenting market.
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Less Novelty, More Useful Apps
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-8-2009   
 I see the iPhone commercials where they primarily plug their app store...and it makes me want to buy one. No kidding apps should be useful. But I'm not being too glib. After all, people use to buy Atari's to play Pong.
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The once and future state of Print Advertising
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-3-2009   
 Great if not depressing stats. Print has a future, as long as it jumps into the engagement game - say with the Amazon Kindle or Google ebook service.
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Real Estate Marketing and Social Media
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-3-2009   
 I couldn't clip all the stats, but here's some great insight on how the real estate industry is leveraging the online social media to sell.
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Twitter Quote: Create a Brand People Talk About
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-3-2009   
 Quote speaks for itself. Engagement. (Ignoring the implication of an A-B company talking into up with underage audience.
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Google Wave. Awesome
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-1-2009   
 Since marketing is now all about engagement - Google makes it easy to pull it all into one place. Check it out.
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Google gets in the eBook business...again.
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-1-2009   
 Watch out Amazon. If some one does something well, Google will do it...well Google will just steal it out right and do it the same. Sorry but its true.
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Direct Mail - The Dinosaur of Marketing
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by iCoastal Net Designs  6-1-2009   
 Direct Mail use to be king. Now it sitting at the back of the bus. I firmly believe to truly have an integrated marketing mix (especially when marketing locally) you need a solid (if scaled back) direct mail campaign. If it works in an email, it works in a mailbox.
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