Aug 31

Hard Rock Cafe Miami

I visited Miami Beach in Florida to attend an IAB conference last February 2012. On my rout from the airport to the hotel where the event was held was conveniently placed the Hard Rock Cafe Miami where I just happened to have the time and need to stop, visit and eat lunch. Had I had more spare time, I would have made the trek to visit the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood Beach which is located 45 minutes North of where I was staying, but in the end both time and the extreme taxi charge won out and I didn’t go :-( Continue reading

Aug 28

Digital Marketing Priorities: #5c Retargeting

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Last week we covered establishing a 52-week Search Engine Marketing or Pay Per Click advertising campaign. Going after the easy sales also includes a base campaign Retargeting your own website’s visitors elsewhere on the web so to encourage the, to buy from you and not our competitors. Continue reading

Aug 24

15th East Coast virtual trip

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This 15th virtual trip covers my January-February Foursquare badge hunting activities. There are a few new badges here and these but many level-ups to expertise badges. The new ones include Audi Winter Ride and AT&T College Football. This badge hunting expedition took me to New Orleans, in Colorado and in New York state. Continue reading

Aug 14

Digital Marketing Priorities: #5a Direct Response

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Before launching an image or brand building campaign, it is necessary to capture all possible easy sale you can online and via mobile. By “easy sale” I mean those consumers who have decided to proceed in buying something you have to sell – whether it is from you specifically, from one of your competitors or the vendor is not yet decided upon but you do make or offer what it is the consumer is looking for. You must then be there where and when they are in research mode, or in the moments (hours & days) before they actually pass at the cash register, to influence where they actually go to spend their money. Continue reading

Aug 10

3rd overseas virtual trip

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This 3rd overseas virtual trip started in South America with a new city badge available in Sao Paulo, the first exclusive to this continent. Along my journey to unlock new city badges, I focused my checkins to venues that would further my leveling up expertise badges. Continue reading

Aug 07

Digital Marketing Priorities: #4 Social Media

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This was a must back in 2010; it is countlessly more important today. Your company, your store locations / franchisees, your brands, must all be present and active on multiple social networks where your customers and prospects in large numbers spend a lot of time (still over an hour daily on Facebook, to name just that one). Continue reading