Generally speaking, when change comes around, it’s for a reason. And if you have been a YouTube user for a while now, then you have noticed the changes over the last few months. Some like it, others hate it, and for the rest of us we say helllllooooo — we needed it!
In 1982 a young college drop-out named Bill Gates made the world a far more boring place by inventing the desktop computer. Using a clunky platform tediously named Windows, he proceeded to gather other dull, like-minded sheep to breathe in his lack of imagination and so the world was indoctrinated into the Microverse.
As you probably know the next new and BIG thing on the Interwebs is Pinterest. We covered it a while back but it’s already time for an update. Since then it’s exploded as a social media outlet for businesses of all sizes. So does another social network make sense for you as a business owner?
Software robots called ‘spiders’ browse through millions and millions of web sites and pages and index important words and where they find these words. The next step in the process is building the index…or spiderweb if you really want to go with the spider thing. I don’t, so we’ll stay on track.
It’s no secret; at Turn The Page Online Marketing, we are a bunch of nerds. We have a long standing rivalry of Apple vs Android. Our sales team has Stormtroopers. We communicate via Google chat, while sitting in the same room with each other. And I bet you right now, on a beautiful and sunny afternoon, I am not the only one sitting in front of a computer working. Or thinking about working.
If you own a local business you are in front of a wonderful opportunity. Google and the other major search engines are migrating to local! The statistics are there for all to see.
Back in 2009 an employee of the advertising agency, Ketchum, arrived in Memphis to meet with FedEx, one of the agency’s biggest clients. As he exited his airplane he Tweeted:
Well, today’s the day. March 1 is the day Google will combine everything about you but your DNA into one big ball of information. Their sixty plus privacy policies are now mostly just one that states basically, “we can follow you everywhere but the loo.” It isn’t the debut of personal information collection by any means, this is just a combining of differing privacy policies into one, more streamlined, statement. I wrote about it a few weeks ago after the initial announcement.
