Online Marketing


Recent Online Marketing Articles

Can Video Help Searchers Find You?

Video can raise your search engine optimization prominence and bring in new customers -- if you do it right.  Read more

Bringing Out Your Inner Blogger

A thoughtfully planned new media campaign can beat big budgets. It can provide large-scale product refinement and increase the online conversations about you...  Read more

How to Develop a Pitch That Gets Read 

What does it take to impress the media? Here are five things you need to know.   Watch video

LivePerson to Host SEO Webinar

The event features search engine optimization and marketing specialists.  Read more

Logoworks to Offer Blog Designs

The new designs aim to help businesses build customer interactivity.  Read more

Putting Widgets to Work

Widgets are no longer just for your Facebook page. Small and mid-sized businesses are using these online applications for viral marketing, to generate intere...  Read more

SEO for Blogs: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SE...  Read more

Does Business Need Its Own Search Engines?

Business-to-business (B2B) vertical search engines allow businesses to search for partners, suppliers, and customers without having to sort through the run o...  Read more

Their Online Dating Site was Struggling

Was a blind-date stunt really the answer?  Read more

From Blogs to Online Communities

Now that there are so many blogs, and search engines aren't reliable enough to be the main source of Internet-based customers, online communities may be the ...  Read more

Setting Boundaries for Employee Internet Use

A total ban on Internet surfing for workers isn't practical, but employers do need to create a balance to use the technology to increase productivity while m...  Read more

How to Banish Blog Spam

It’s great when your company blog gets noticed -- but not so great when the acclaim makes it a spam magnet. By taking a few simple steps, companies can sto...  Read more

Essential Steps to Starting a Business Podcast

Whether you go it alone or hire a professional producer, follow these rules of thumb to create an engaging podcast that can attract listeners, and hopefully,...  Read more

MySpace Unveils Advertising Platform

The platform allows advertisers to build, maintain and customize brand profiles.  Read more

What You Need to Know About The People Who Read Your Blog

A new study on the habits of blog readers, conducted by The University of California at Irvine, is quietly making the rounds at conferences and Read more

The New Advertising Medium: Social Media

Social networking sites attract more and more users, but are they viable as an effective marketing platform?  Read more

Tech Talk: Online Video Helps Travel Website

By allowing resort homeowners to take video of their properties and showcase them online, a Massachusetts-based travel website finds a new technology tool to...  Read more

Tech Talk: Search Helps Customers Find Filters

A Minnesota-based water filter company found that adding custom search to its website increased sales from online customers.  Read more

Drive Traffic to Your Business Blog

You won’t get any business from your company blog if nobody knows about it. To reach its full potential, a blog needs traffic. To get visitors, use a mix o...  Read more

Dear Customer…

Managing e-mail campaigns.  Read more

Targeted Search -- How to Optimize It

Businesses that advertise online have been thrown another loop. Just when they had search engine optimization figured out, now they can target their advertis...  Read more

Anything Could Happen

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering y...  Read more

Why Business Bloggers Are Twittering

Business bloggers are finding that tools like Twitter help draw traffic to their blog posts and give them a way to stay connected without the commitment of w...  Read more

A Digital Makeover for the Modeling Business

How Ford Models became the hottest thing on YouTube.  Read more

Mobile Phones: A Pocketful of Marketing

The future is calling. Pick up!  Read more

Viral Video: Get Ready for Your Close-up

"Will it Blend?" from Blendtec and three more case studies of viral-video marketing success.  Read more

How to Jazz Up Your Website

Do you want to have a top-notch website? Here are 8 important questions to ask yourself.  Read more

Blogging: More Than Idle Chatter

Do it--and do it as if you mean it.  Read more

Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

Marketing your small business on Facebook and MySpace.  Read more

The New Basics of Marketing

What you need to know about: websites, email, mobile phones, social networks, viral video, blogging.  Read more

Social Networks: Up And Down The Social Register

For companies that market to niches, one of these specialized social networks may be a better value.  Read more

E-mail: On Messages

6 questions to every small business should consider before creating an e-mail marketing campaign.  Read more

What a Microsoft/Yahoo Combination Means

For small businesses, the pairing of technology giants could be a positive because it would give that other Internet advertising and search powerhouse – Go...  Read more

Google Launches Online Marketing Challenge

Students will help local businesses create an AdWords online marketing campaign.  Read more