Google is crazy for web sites in Texas
Google says it is giving local businesses a leg up getting on the Web through its launch yesterday of Texas Get Your Business Online.” But I see a deeper advance into the culture of local business so Google can better template small business needs to the Google suite of services, most notably Google+. Google was
Welcome to the Wow! of social media convergence
Facebook is an awesome community. Born as a place to hang out with your friends, it has evolved into a great venue to further develop principles of online marketing for businesses and causes large and small. Those principles incorporate the basics of online communication. We began to learn online communication early on through email lists
Google+ to brands: beta hopefuls sign up here
Google+ was barely out of the box and Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineland was chiding Google for its inhospitability to brands. Google said it wasn’t quite ready but that didn’t stop SeachEngineLand and a bunch of other media and corporate folks to get something resembling a brand page up. And some of them looked pretty good.
Retailers meet the future: while apps loom, SEO reigns
Retailers have been scratching their heads wondering what the brouhaha is about smart phone apps. Scratch no longer. Google Wallet and American Express/Foursquare have taken the lead and are showing retailers what it looks like to link automatic discounts with real life items. Google Wallet, announced May 26, is a partnership between Citi, MasterCard, First
It’s Google+ week.
Let the games begin! The big news this week was Google’s June 28 announcement of its new Google+ social network that include “circles” of friends and bunches of other features. My tweetdeck is getting throttled on the search term “Google” and it looks like revolution in Egypt! But no, it’s yet another revolution in Internet