Hearsay Social – Corporate & Local Social Media Management Tool

For national companies that rely heavily on local presence, managing a social media marketing campaign can be a nightmare. In the age of the internet and social media, advertisement has taken the local route. Web ads are strategically placed for a relevant audience to produce maximum customer conversion. If a company has taken steps to…

Facebook Allows Group Buying Discounts for Game Developers

Facebook has announced that it will allow game developers to sell virtual game items through group discounts. Since many of the games are essentially social in nature, it makes sense for Facebook to give Facebook gamers the opportunity to share. Game developers may begin offering items with discounts, allowing users to share certain items and…

Search Engine Optimization Equals Success

Marketing your business online to achieve success for long term gains should require search engine optimization in your process. Your competitors are most probably utilizing the power of this very important prerequisite to succeeding on the Internet to take advantage of attracting the large volume of highly qualified customers that otherwise would be going towards…

Search Engine Optimization Tip: Moving Domains

Change is inevitable, especially in the world of e-commerce. And one common change e-commerce merchants know is changing domains. Some changes are good but this is one change that can hurt an online business’ search engine optimization efforts, whether knowingly or unknowingly. A sudden domain change can affect your search engine rankings because major search…

Top Five Open Source Platforms for Ecommerce Website Designers

Tripwire Magazine, a weblog catered to the web designers and developers, has recently named the top 15 open source platforms for ecommerce website designers, useful for both professional internet marketers and individuals that desire to start their own online store. Open source platforms allow users to modify, change, and improve the software. Here are the…

Facebook Turning Your Comments Into Ads

When Facebook was “cool” Remember when Facebook was “cool”? It was only a few years ago when Facebook was a start-up with a clean interface, exclusively focused on college students. For a short time, Facebook stood its ground, refusing to become another tool for “the man” (a.k.a. big business) to use, a path that infested…

Choosing Your Search Engine Optimization Partner

The year 2011 brings with it many lessons from the past year, as well as new trends and technologies to learn and watch out for. Social media marketing has taken center stage and has proven itself indispensible for ecommerce merchants. However, ecommerce merchants should not neglect their search engine optimization needs. In the world of…

NFC Payment Functionality Coming To Iphone 5?

A few posts back, we highlighted CodeBroker’s coupon loyalty solutions technology. Codebroker’s technology enables retailers to send coupon barcodes via text to customer smartphones. The barcodes that appear on smartphone screens then may be redeemed by using special optical barcode scanner at a physical retailer site. It’s a nifty and innovative concept that is sure…