Category Archives: trends

Smart Marketing in a Recession

By Chris | March 1, 2009

Welcome back!Most of us are feeling the effects of economic downturn right now. The result is that individuals are spending less and companies are trying to maintain. Spending habits are changing so recession advertising will need to change to keep pace with what’s happening in the market. I believe that today search marketing and social [...]

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Unfollow Everyone

By Chris | February 25, 2009

Twitter has quickly become my favorite site on the web, I love it because it is so simple and does so much. Who knew the possibilities contained within 140 characters? Twitter has become so awesome, in fact, that it seems everyone wants to connect. One of the latest trends is to connect with people in [...]

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Blogging Is Not Dead

By Chris | January 16, 2009

I keep reading tweets and news articles either questioning, or in some cases flat out stating that blogging is dead. I’m here to say that regardless of what other websites have to say about this, blogging is not dead. Most of the articles point to Twitter or Facebook as the new craze. These sites definitely [...]

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The Way of the Web

By Chris | November 11, 2008

The web has been in a state of transition since it began. Remember the first site that you saw, with Times New Roman text and recangular images? We’ve come a long way since then. Broadband and wifi brought a huge leap forward in web technology because sites loaded faster and we were no longer tied [...]

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Shorter URLs

By Chris | September 4, 2008

The list of URL shortening tools is growing. The first one that I heard of was TinyURL, and I thought it was genious. All of a sudden sending Google Maps and books on Amazon was no sweat. Before this came along emailing long URL strings to less savvy surfers like my Mom or brother was [...]

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