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  • SEO and Social Media Specialists Identified as Hot Tech Jobs for 2013

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    Recruitment firms Robert Half Technology and The Creative Group have released 2013 Salary Guides this month that identify SEO/SEM specialists and social media specialists as two of the hottest technology jobs for 2013. Both positions offer strong starting salaries in both the U.S. and Canada, with income ranges that have increased in the past 12…

  • Memorable Internet acronyms are coming soon

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    The well-known acronyms on the Internet soon will have many more memorable “Top Name Domain” (TLDs) joining them.  More than 50 percent of 250 million domain names in the world are ending with .com, .org, or .net.  Soon there will be .book, .music, .shop, .baby, .casino, .pizza and many more. The cyberspace directory agency known…

  • Who runs “.com”?

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    In order for you to market your products, contact your customers, conduct marketing research, and keep track of your competition on the Web, you need to have a Web site and tools to maximize your internet sales.  If you have a Web site with “.com”, do you how it operates? The U.S. Department of Commerce…

  • Marketing wars are gearing up for holidays

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    Holidays are fast approaching and online as well as brick-and-mortar stores are fighting for your business.  Online shopping accounts for approximately seven percent of the U.S. retail sales and year over year online sales are increasing.  Last year approximately 50 percent of shoppers looked into online buying.  During the holidays e-commerce becomes a more powerful…

  • Facebook IPO blunder

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    The Menlo Park, California based Facebook, the world’s biggest social networking company went public in May 2012 on the NASDAQ market at $38 per share after months of speculations. On the day of the release, trading of the stock was delayed more than half an hour and it took more than two hours for traders…

  • Google’s presence in China continues

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    Google pulled out of China and moved its operations to Hong Kong in 2010 objecting to the censorship of the Chinese government. Google traditionally place its advertisements next to the search box. Since its departure, the Beijing-based Baidu is the number one search engine in China capturing 78.6 percent market share. Google still the number…

  • Blogs to attract new customers

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    Small businesses are finding it difficult to get new customers. Traditional advertising methods such as direct mail, radio advertising is no longer providing the desired results. Internet opportunities to promote your business are abundant. Here is a way to attract more customers and promote your business. You can start a Web site to serve as…

  • QR codes are moving slower than once expected

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    Quick Reference or QR codes are those densely populated grids that appear within a square that can hold more information than its predecessor bar code. Once you scan the code from a capable devise, it takes the user directly to the web site. It is being used for inventory tracking, event ticketing and advertising. The…

  • Five Tips To Grow Fans And Traffic On Pinterest

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    Though seemingly new, Pinterest has quickly become a major source of buyers. Pinterest is not new. It has been gradually rising in popularity for the last two years. In fact, it is still in beta now despite suddenly landing in the new number 3 spot on the Social Media Network rankings (as of March 2012).…

  • Viral Marketing: A Winning Combination of Content and Outreach

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    Viral marketing is nothing new, but social networking has changed the way we think about it. It has never been easier to share something en masse, and there have never been so many different platforms on which to do this. That said, the key to dissemination is not only utilizing every outlet available but also…