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5 Signs Your Marketing Strategy Is Outdated

By Jeff Lerner, Vice President, Digital Media

The online marketing world moves fast, and sometimes it can be too easy to maintain the status quo in your strategy and analysis techniques. Here are five common ways that companies aren't up-to-date on the best practices in online marketing: Read More

“Pinspiring” Ideas For Pinterest Contests

By Kathy Sanders, Content Manager

If your brand is currently using Pinterest, take advantage of the platform's enormous popularity by incorporating a Pinterest contest into your social media strategy. A Pinterest contest is an easy and effective way to engage your target audience, increase referral traffic, foster trust and loyalty, and generate buzz about your products, services, and company values. Read More

With Friends Like Twitter and Facebook, Who Needs a Corporate Website?

By Jeff Lerner, Vice President, Digital Media

I love Wheat Thins, a fact that I'm usually reminded of during a mid-afternoon craving for a salty whole-grain cracker (or box of crackers) topped with some sharp cheddar. But lately, Wheat Thins has entered my world - sans hunger pangs - by airing a witty commercial featuring characters from Fox's animated comedy, "Family Guy." While the ad itself is worth a look if you know the characters, I've been more interested with the nondescript letters at the bottom of the screen: @wheatthins. Read More

Using Pinterest to Promote Your Brand

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Pinterest has been one of the fastest growing Social Media communities in 2012 and doesn't seem to be slowing down in its popularity anytime soon. For those who are unfamiliar with the site, Pinterest allows users and brands to post "pins" (image and video content) and organize these pins by placing them in "boards." Other users can like, repin, or comment within these boards and pins. When posting, users link to the original source of the pin. Users can also follow other users' profiles. Read More

Followers! Likes! Retweets! Value?

By Jeff Lerner, Vice President, Digital Media

In the column, "Your Social Media Strategy Must Go Beyond Twitter Followers and Facebook Likes," I extolled (thank you, Word-of-the-Day calendar) Dunkin' Donuts for its exemplary use of Twitter in turning my negative customer experience into a net positive. Even though I probably would have continued to patronize them, let's instead say that their thoughtful tweet saved them my business - which we'll estimate at roughly $300 in delicious coffee per year. Read More

SEO and Social Media Convergence Heats Up in 2012

By Scott Litvack, SEO Services

The convergence of SEO and Social Media is likely to heat up in 2012. It has been slightly more than a year since Google and Bing publicly started to take into account social media as a ranking signal. The ultimate goal of the search engines is to find the best answer to a user's query with the fewest clicks, in the shortest amount of time. Read More

Will Google’s Search, Plus Your World Be a Game Changer in SEO?

By Scott Litvack, SEO Services

Google has introduced what may be the next evolutionary step in search with the roll out of Google's Search, plus Your World. Google's search results have been influenced by social signals for quite some time. The significant change with Google's new integration of search and social is when you are logged in to your Google account, you will see personal results from your Google+ photos and posts, Google profiles in autocomplete and in results, and Google+ pages related to a specific topic or area of interest. Read More

A Message To Our Valued Clients and Friends

By Sandy Demitroff, President, Prime Visibility

I'd like to take a moment to thank you for your continued support and partnership! We are particularly thankful for the chance to build great relationships and share meaningful opportunities with our clients. Read More

10 Social Media Tools to be Grateful For

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

If you're managing a brand's Social Media campaign, chances are you are doing more than just focusing on one individual channel. As the importance of Social Media has continued to grow over the past couple of years, so has the amount of tools and websites that exist to help brands manage and track their Social Media initiatives. Read More