Still a Couple of Seats Left for our Online Marketing Seminar!
Yes, I’m told that there are still a couple of seats left for our online marketing Seminar to be held tomorrow – Tuesday Dec 11th at the McMaster Innovation Park centre here in Hamilton.
All one needs to do, is to contact Tammy of the Innovation Factory to book a seat…and it’s FREE!
Or fomore information and to Register for these totally free Workshops here’s the info you’ll need…
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Our Online Go-To-Market Seminar Strategy Workshops
Once nice thing about working for the #HamOnt Innovation Factory and their programs is that they are fun!
They are rewarding, and from past experience, they are of value for the attendants….and that get’s me to today’s post about a couple of our Strategy Workshops coming up shortly.
Note that these are TOTALLY FREE Workshops!
No cost, just Register for a seat and you (and your staff or marketing team) are going to learn!
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Black Friday & Xmas Shopping RE-CAP: Amazing Numbers!
So…the past Friday, known at least here in North America as “Black Friday” the day after the celebration of the US Thanksgiving is now over and some of the numbers that were projected are “in” and what may be surprising is that a Friday can last all weekend, eh!
What do I mean? Well, first visit and pore over this great infographic from the folks over at strangeloopnetworks.com has visited this topic and has the following numbers to report…based on their own projections as well as industry stats it appears for both the Black Friday period and into the next month of Christmas shopping too.
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Black Friday Shopping: Will Canada Play?
Black Friday today is called, by just about everyone in the e-Commerce channel as well as bricks & mortar retailers here in North America. Yes, I know….it used to be a major US only event…the big shopping day after the US Thanksgiving Thursday. And yes, it’s attractiveness has spread north of 49° and I’ve heard already 2 street reporters on my drive into the office today talking about the lineups at Toronto’s Eaton Centre. Retailers rejoice for this day…
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Innovation Night Winners in #HamOnt!
It seems like so so long ago, when our Innovation Factory held our first Hamilton based “in house” Innovation Night competitions….twas only about 18 months ago I think…but we’ve had so many winning nights that they all stand as successful ways to hear what’s “new” in startups here in the city.
And last Wednesday night was no different as we had about a dozen competitors who competed for the two big prizes of top-of-the-line tech gadgets, Lenovo IdeaTab tablets and what a competition it was, eh!
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Our Fabulous Friday is Sharing Tactics Day, eh!
Okay, nother week almost gone…and yup, seen quite a bit of Google & Google Local and Google+ issues arising in forums, on boards and help areas too…but that’s for another post next week. Right now as I glide into the weekend, my thinking is that in the past couple of weeks there’ve been some very interesting tactics for serps we’ve been testing and I thought that I’d share.
Sharing is good. Mom taught me that….and while it was a great tool to learn to use in K-12 schooling, I’d be one of the first to admit that we SEO practitioners don’t share as much as we “should!”
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TopRank Tip: “The Stalking Dead” is a Great Read!
Okay, so the first thing today, is to learn where I got this great tip – from Lee Odden, the head honcho over at www.toprankblog.com and what a great tip it is! Lee is the knowledge generator there (among many other things I’d imagine) and in that role he writes great blog posts about all types of online marketing from strategy to tips to empirical items of note. So Kudos right off the bat to Lee!
What’d he say…well his blog piece is here that I found just on Friday past, and it is of great interest….perhaps because I love art of almost any type and whole Samurai style and content of the piece is so so much fun to read from – and to learn too!
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24 Hours in the Google Economy!
If it’s one guy I especially like when it comes to reading his “take” on all things marketing, it’s Oli Gardner of unbounce.com – and yes, he’s done it again! His take on the latest infographic, published by Wordstream entitled “24 Hours in the Google Economy” is pretty dang spot on and you must both go to look over the longish infographic here first….then read Oli’s take here.
See what I mean?
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Google Disavow Tool: SEO gets Interesting!
Google has finally released it’s Disavow tool…and for those of us in the trenches of the SEO world, it’s getting to be a very interesting time! Here’s what I’ve learned and here’s what I think you need to consider.
Of course I’m assuming that as an SMB owner, you know about SEO. You know the real value of an SEO Campaign for your marketing strategy and you know about the value of IBLs…inbound back links. You know how hard it is to craft a link acquiring set of tactics to both engage your channel community and you work hard at doing just that – or you have an SEO firm doing that for you.
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A Halloween SEO Infographic: Cool but Scary, eh!
Not too often that I get to see a targeted spot-on SEO infographic that speaks to me both with great knowledge and it has a timelyness that I can appreciate, so when I found this one this morning I just knew I had to share it right here!
From what I can gather – tho to be totally honest even an old media guy like me knows how to find attributions – this one is a bit muddy. You can find the infographic here on the www.advancedwebranking.com site, and it’s bylined by a writer (note, not an artist either it appears) named Dana Loiz of Caphyon, an apparent marketing firm.
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Best Time to Send Emails is?
Okay, if you’re like me you try not to be online much each weekend…well…at least you do try. Yet I find that while I do not much surfing (other than looking up stuff I’d have no chance of ever getting correct in the New York Times crossword) emails I do try to look at at least once a day.
That should, at least in my mind “cut down” on the huge numbers of emails that I find in my INBOX on a Monday morning….but once again, today…I had more than 250+ emails…and yes, most of them were not for me.
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Lion’s Lair Gala Winners! #HamOnt was the Biggest Winner!
First off…no Snappay my own top ten finalist mobile app did not win, but then again, we did!
Lion’s Lair as all our regular readers know, is Hamilton’s answer to the CBC Dragon’s Den TV show – and we offer up a similar contest right here in #HamOnt for our own local startups to come and pitch to 5 local Lions! And what a great second annual it was this year too!
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