Mirror, Mirror is a favorite Star Trek episode. In that episode the “mirror” copy of Kirk and team are exact opposites of the characters we have come to love. But what if Starfleet could have many Captain Kirks — or — many captains just like him?
That’s what the Facebook Lookalike Audiences aims to do. (more…)
Starmark announced today the official release of the third volume of its compendium of research and recommendations for today’s marketer. This eTips edition: “50 eTIPS TO KEEP YOU AHEAD OF THE CURVE” focuses on the technologies that are revolutionizing business, and how companies and organizations can grab a critical edge in areas such as mobile and SEO. The book provides clear explanations of advanced social media concepts such as measuring influence and interpreting analytics. (more…)
The decline of print journalism is creating a host of new challenges for public relations pros. However, the dramatic drop in print reporting has been matched by an equally significant surge in new media reporting, namely: bloggers.
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In companies large and small, internal communications can take a variety of forms, such as newsletters, email broadcasts, and postings to the company Intranet. Although the authors of these announcements are writing for internal consumption – and internal consumption only – the annals of business blunders are filled with the consequences of these communications breaking free of company property.
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Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are gaining market share. They’re now people’s go-to tool for communicating, emailing, social networking, checking the time, killing time, taking photos and — increasingly — finding and researching products, services and businesses. According to a recent study by Google, 92 percent of U.S. smartphone owners browse the web daily and 83 percent of US smartphone owners use their smartphones in-store. (more…)
The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau (GFL) received a record number of Flagler Awards, including Best of Show, as part of the 46th Annual Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism. For the second straight year, GFLCVB and Starmark won the highest honor, Best of Show, this year for the “Hello Sunny” integrated marketing campaign. (more…)
In the old days – like the 1990s – brands designing a logo thought about how it would look on brochures, buildings and billboards. Today, brands must think small, considering first how their mark will look on social media.
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While advertising creative serves an important purpose across mediums, experiential marketing strives to generate an actual connection with the consumer. The experiential approach means thinking about time as your currency, and developing ways to have your customer spend time with your brand. (more…)
Reprinted from South Florida Business Journal
Is your advertising creating more demand for your competition than for you? If you are running a local business, and neglecting “local search engine optimization” (local SEO), you may be driving customers into the arms of your competitors. (more…)
Images have become the currency of the web – just look at the rise of Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook’s Rich Stories. Now, Google is getting into the act with a beta of Image Extensions for AdWords. With Google’s newly released version of Image Extensions, advertisers are able to display relevant images to go with text ads.
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Tumblr is the blogging platform brought to you by 26-year-old entrepreneur David Karp. Recently acquired by Yahoo, Tumblr now supports 108.4 million blogs (and 53.9 billion posts).
For marketers, it’s important to understand Tumblr’s niche. A microblogging platform and social networking website, it’s not the place for a post that runs 1,000 words, but rather the location for picture sharing and blog posts of a couple hundred words.
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Casual Internet users may not realize that search on a mobile device returns different results than search on a desktop – and apparently neither do the world’s biggest companies. A recent study found that just 6 percent of Fortune 100 companies are compliant with Google’s impending mobile SEO requirements. What about yours?
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