Think of professions with bad reputations. What springs to mind? Used-car salesmen? Insurance salesmen? Telemarketers? What about SEOs? SEO is a much maligned industry. Some of this has to do with its technical nature and the fact that a lot of the processes take place behind the scenes to appease Google’s omnipotent yet invisible search [...]
Archive for 10 May 2011
Top 3 lies (some) SEO companies tell you
Posted 10 May 2011 by SandyTagged As: seo companies, seo lies | Categories: SEO | Leave a Comment
How to build and maintain your personal brand
Posted 10 May 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, linkedin, online brand, personal brand, Twitter | Categories: Online PR, ORM, Social Media | Leave a Comment
You may have heard the phrase “If you’re not on Google you don’t exist”. It’s a rather sad reflection of current society, but it is nonetheless true. It doesn’t really matter what you do or want to do with your life, having an online presence or personal brand will help you achieve your goals. A [...]
US teenager conquers YouTube by making lip-syncing cool
Posted 10 May 2011 by SandyTagged As: Keenan Cahill, YouTube | Categories: Social Media, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
Millennials probably won’t remember Milli Vanilli, a sort-of pop duo that got into huge trouble in the late 80s for lip-syncing songs. The outcry was enormous. Fans felt cheated. They were rousted out of the music industry. What people didn’t know was that they were actually geniuses born before their time. Just ask Keenan Cahill, [...]
Osama Bin Laden is dead and the internet doesn’t care … almost
Posted 10 May 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, Google, social media, Twitter | Categories: News, Social Media | Leave a Comment
So, Osama Bin Laden is dead. It’s old news, really. And, to be honest, if you’re not American, or Muslim, or Julius Malema the whole thing has been a little anti-climactic. Well, it has. There are no dramatic images, no accompanying sense of a world irrevocably changed; it just happened. Perhaps, though, the lack of [...]