September 2009
1 post
Dallas Twestival to Benefit The Women’s Museum →
What is a Twestival?
A Twestival or Twitter-Festival is a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales via Twitter, which brings people offline…
June 2009
1 post
A Simple Way to Keep Up With Your Tweeps →
If you are on Twitter, as you follow more and more people, it can be difficult to keep up with your close friends. There is a really simple solution to keep an eye out for their…
May 2009
1 post
Twitter Goes Gray - Oldies But Goodies on Twitter →
By now most everyone has heard that more than 60% of US Twitter users fail to return the following month. But, how about the graying of Twitter?
Twitter Demographics
April 2009
2 posts
Two Very Big Thank You’s to John Wright Art →
John Wright, a wonderfully talented artist with two beautiful blogs, John Wright Art and John Wright SketchBlog, hosts a contest each month giving away a painting and…
Do You Need A Wingman? Twitter Does - Now There’s... →
Apparently Twitter needed a Wingman to answer to the most common question of the Twitterverse, “How is Twitter going to make money?”
The Twitter Wingman
According to…
March 2009
4 posts
sezWho Closing Down at the end of March →
sezWho , who had aspired to be the universal profile service for social media sites, has called it quits. Following in the footsteps of other recent social media sites, such as Furl, …
New Study Shows Marketers are Moving to Social... →
A new study shows that marketers are slowly making the transition to social media marketing with 63% stating they will increase their social media marketing spend in 2009.
New Twitter Directory: WeFollow-A User Powered... →
WeFollow is a new user powered Twitter directory by Digg’s Kevin Rose. With a sleek interface and #hashtag directory, it is catching on fast.
Add Yourself to the We…
Anything is Possible with Enough Time and Money:... →
Even though many times there is more creativity in budgets than ads, the easiest way to get a marketer to groan is tell them to do a marketing budget.
The Marketing Budget…
February 2009
11 posts
Opportunities Part 3: Online Marketing-SEO, PPC,... →
73.1% of North America is using the internet. Can they find you?
Source: Internet World Stats, rates based on full year 2008.
Search Engine Optimization
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Friday FREE for All: Productivity Tools →
It’s a productivity free for all: Remember The Milk ~ Instapaper ~ Google Tools
Remember the Milk
Manage your tasks quickly and easily with Remember the Milk. Track,…
Friday FREE for All: Productivity Tools →
It’s a productivity free for all: Remember The Milk ~ Instapaper ~ Google Tools
Remember the Milk
Manage your tasks quickly and easily with Remember the Milk. Track,…
Opportunities: Part 2–Offline Marketing and... →
“Reports of my death have been highly exaggerated.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
We last discussed Awareness Activities, the first in the three categories of…
Opportunities: Part 1–Create a Marketing Buzz with... →
Awareness
Definition: knowledge Antonyms: ignorance, insensitivity, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness
(Answers.com)
A marketing strategy is designed to…
Friday FREE for ALL! A Special Valentine’s Day... →
It’s a Valentine’s Day Edition of the Friday Free For ALL! Free Avatars ~ Free Design Ideas ~ Free Scripts ~ and The Most Original FREE Valentine’s Greeting You Can Send
Free…
The Marketing Point Guard: Positioning and... →
Image source: Wikipedia
Arguably the best point guard ever to play in the NBA, Magic Johnson, exemplified the qualities required of a point guard - running the offense, …
Marketing Insanity: Is Your Marketing Plan Dated... →
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ”
- Generally attributed to either Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin
Remember back in the good old days…
Friday Free For All - Google Latitude, Free... →
What’s FREE this week? FREE Software ~ FREE Original Art Contest ~ Find Your Friends FREE with Google Latitude
Free Software
Don’t forget to drop by cnet for loads of free software…
Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer... →
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
Sun-tzu, The Art of War, 722-481 BCE or 403-221 BCE
Anyone that has spent much time in the corporate world has heard this…
January 2009
13 posts
Jump Start Your 2009 Marketing Efforts with Dallas...
Dallas Marketing Services kicked off 2009 with a series designed to jump start business marketing efforts. Even in today’s world of marketing with so many online and offlinechoices, good marketing begins with the basics - an assessment of where you are now and development of a strategy for getting to where you want to be. Topics covered so far: Start 2009 by Getting Back to the Marketing...
Jump Start Your 2009 Marketing Efforts with Dallas...
Dallas Marketing Services kicked off 2009 with a series to designed to jump start business marketing efforts. Even in today’s world of marketing with so many online and offlinechoices, good marketing begins with the basics - an assessment of where you are now and development of a strategy for getting to where you want to be. Topics covered so far: Start 2009 by Getting Back to the...
Dallas Marketing Services Thanks Those Who Dropped... →
A blog without visitors is, well, just lonely! So, Dallas Marketing Services wants to pay tribute to all of the loyal readers and commenters, paying special recognition to those who dropped by…
Friday Free For All: Do Follow Along for Free Link... →
This Friday we will progress through a series of FREE items for the benefit of your website or blog: FREE Link Building with Do Follow ~ FREE Blog Traffic using Do Follow ~ Free Blog Policy Tools
Friday Free For All: Do Follow Along for Free Link... →
This Friday we will progress through a series of FREE items for the benefit of your website or blog: FREE Link Building with Do Follow ~ FREE Blog Traffic using Do Follow ~ Free Blog Policy Tools
Target Markets & Segmentation: Using Marketing... →
Surprisingly, many companies approach marketing with a goal to sell some stuff to somebody. Not so surprisingly, their resources are quickly spent with little or no…
Apparently My Husband Likes Botox Parties with His... →
My husband recently received an invitation from a local doctor to attend an evening that included free botox for guests and suggested that he “bring his girlfriends and…
Friday Free for All: Free Stuff for Your Business →
It’s Friday and time for the Friday FREE for All - a quick sprint through some great FREE finds around the web. This week, our featured free finds are: Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions ~…
Connecting Your Selling Process with the Buyers’... →
” What we got here is a failure to communicate.”
- Cool Hand Luke, 1967
How many times have you set out to buy something but encountered a sales process that was so out of…
Friday FREE for ALL: Great Free Finds Around the... →
In our travels around the web, we have seen some great finds this week and wanted to pass them along…
Free Icons
Find 40 free icon sets - that’s close to 3000 free icons at Six Revisions….
“So What?” Marketing:Defining Features &... →
The ability to clearly communicate the unique benefits of a product or service is critical for achieving marketing success and should be consistent in all marketing communications.
…
The Marketing Discovery Process →
Here, we borrow from the legal process - attorneys generally hate it when marketers borrow from their profession (think “actionable”). The discovery process is a time for gathering information and…
Start 2009 by Getting Back to the Marketing Basics →
Even in today’s world of marketing with so many online and offline choices, good marketing begins with the basics - an assessment of where you are now and development of a strategy for getting to…
December 2008
8 posts
Links for 2008-12-29 [Furl] →
Do Follow Bloggers | Blogsthatfollow.com
Directory Critic » Directory Lists, Article Directory Lists, Link Building, Directory Templates & Resources
Directory Critic » Directory Lists,…
Furl Social Bookmarking: Save, Search, Archive,... →
Did you ever find a website with some great information, bookmark the URL in your browser and then return later and the site had been changed and then information was gone? You should have Furled it.
Plurk: A Social Journal for... →
Micro-blogging platform Plurk is a social journal that puts “your life, on the line.”
A timeline that is. Plurkers add plurks (up to 140 character updates) to their Plurk…
Happy Holidays from Dallas Marketing Services →
Wishing everyone a wonderful, safe and happy holiday!
A beautiful morning in Breckenridge, Colorado. December 21, 2008
Posted via email from dallasmarketing’s posterous
Using White Papers to Promote Your Business →
Looking for some new ideas for promoting your business? Perhaps a relook at a very reliable method - a well-written white paper - combined with some new online, social media marketing…
New Study: Social Networks and 40-Something Women →
Considering this is my demographic, I found this to be quite interesting. But even more so, this study, reported by eMarketer.com, once again supports the importance of adding social media…
Posterous: Easy, Simple Blogging Using Email for... →
Know how to send an email? You too can be a blogger with Posterous.
Blogging has never been easier than with Posterous where a blog post can be created by simply…
Social Media Site, Pownce, Closing Down in Two... →
Social media site, Pownce, announced today that it will be closing the site down in two weeks.
According to the Pownce blog, they will “be closing down the main Pownce website two…
November 2008
3 posts
We Had the Comment Luv Bug →
We recently implemented the Comment Luv Wordpress Plugin on this site, which visits the feed of the commenter and attempts to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment….
Discover, Share & Discuss on Social Bookmarking... →
Social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia, puts the social in social bookmarking providing an online venue to “Discover, Share and Discuss the best of the web.”
If you already have…
Get Connected & Stay Social with Business Social... →
Business social networking and online address book provider, Plaxo, has been gaining popularity and, according to their website, currently “hosts address books for more than 40 million…
October 2008
13 posts
Triiibes: The Tribe Has Spoken-Triiibes Stays... →
“It’s sort of a cross between Facebook, a blog and Squidoo.” Seth Godin
In anticipation of the October launch of his new book, Tribes, master marketer Seth Godin created…
Um, Excuse Me But You Have Broccoli in Your Teeth →
How many times have you encountered a web page or blog where something isn’t quite right - the header isn’t showing, there’s a typo or a broken link, maybe there’s that lovely white box with an X…
Squidoo →
Squidoo is a collection of over 700,000 pages created by users about whatever they want the world to know - ideas, recommendations, interests, instructions - basically any topic that they…
Goodreads →
While browsing the books on a friend’s bookshelf one day, Goodreads founder, Otis Chandler, had a thought - why not build a website where peoplecan share what books they are reading…
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty →
Today thousands of bloggers unite to discuss a single issue - poverty with a goal of raising awareness, promoting discussion and initiating action to help reduce poverty across the globe.
…
The Social Media 101: Business Use of Social Media... →
As we progress through the Social Media 101 - 101 social media sites and tips on how businesses can use social media to interact with the community and promote their brand - we wanted to comment on…