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5 Key Features of the Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline’s Key Features

The Facebook Timeline provides a greater opportunity for brands to showcase their identity, highlight milestones and important news and organize content on their page. If utilized effectively, the Facebook Timeline can be a powerful owned asset that will complement your company’s marketing efforts. (more…)

Starmark Partners with South Florida Business Journal to Sponsor #SocialMadness

Agency Creates Custom Internet Tools for Companies to Use During Contest

As a sponsor of American City Business Journals’ social media challenge, #SocialMadness, Starmark has launched the social media campaign SOCIAL#BIGIDEAS which includes posts on social media platforms, a webinar, a Facebook app and other internet marketing tools. (more…)

Pinterest Re-defines the Social Media Landscape

There’s a new social media network in town that’s changing the landscape for individuals and businesses alike! Named #5 on Hitwise’s “Top 10 Social Networks,” Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board that allows you to post or “pin” images with links, organize them into “bulletin boards” and share them with your followers and the Pinterest universe. (more…)

Perfect Passwords are the First Step to Data Security

About a year ago LinkedIn asked everyone to change their passwords due to a data breach at a completely separate site. How are these related? LinkedIn knows people use the same password for multiple accounts to make it easier to remember. Therefore, a breech at one site leaves other sites vulnerable. (more…)

Get ROI From Your Social Media – Use a #Hashtag

Reprinted from South Florida Business Journal

How to increase social marketing ROI by tweeting a hashtag?

The viral aspects of Twitter for celebrities, politicians, the media and even countries have proven to be very powerful, but Twitter integration with campaigns to drive results has remained a question for many marketers – until now. (more…)

Using Goals in Google Analytics

Ever wonder how people found or interact with your website? Google Analytics (GA) can help. More specifically, setting up goals in GA will help you determine what visitors are doing and if you’re meeting your business objectives as well. Fueled with this data, you can then make decisions to influence online behavior. (more…)

‘Defrost Your Swimsuit’ Campaign Advances to National Addy Awards

Fort Lauderdale based integrated marketing agency Starmark continues to steal the show in the annual ADDY awards. This time the agency’s Defrost Your Swimsuit campaign won the district awards and has advanced to the national competition. National winners will be announced June 5, 2012 at a ceremony in Austin, TX. (more…)

Starmark’s Justice Mitchell Gives Talk on Using Social Media

Starmark’s Vice President and Social Media and Interactive Creative Director Justice Mitchell will speak to University of Central Florida School of Communications senior year students April 13 during COMM Day. Mitchell’s talk, “Career Start-Ups: Leveraging Social Media Professionally,” will review the latest tools and best practices to help students transition into the professional world. (more…)

Starmark Grows Management Partnership

Starmark International, Inc., a national advertising firm headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, has expanded its management partner group, currently comprised of CEO Peggy Nordeen, Chief Interactive Officer Brett Circe and President Jacqui Hartnett, to include Vice President Client Services Lisa Hoffman and newly named Vice President & Executive Creative Director Dale Baron. (more…)

The Gamification of Marketing

The term “gamification” is becoming increasingly popular especially with a little help from Mafia Wars and Farm/Cityville. But these games are just that—games. You log in, play and are rewarded for your participation and achievements. But how do such fundamental game mechanics apply to a marketer, client or consumer? (more…)

Why the New Facebook Timeline for Pages is Worth the Work

Reprinted from South Florida Business Journal

Just when you thought your Facebook brand pages were under control, Facebook launched its new Timeline design. With it, another set of decisions looms in how and why to integrate this powerful new set of features with the rest of your organization’s integrated marketing communications plan. (more…)

Mobile Apps Drive Social Sharing

All great social applications do one thing right – make it easy to share. “Ease of use” is key for all websites and mobile applications especially when you add social media into the mix. Some great mobile applications doing it right are: (more…)