Chat with Your Customers on Social Media Pages

Now You Can Answer Questions Live on Facebook Some of our clients have been taking customer service to a new level by offering live chat services with their customers on social media pages. By adding a chat button to their corporate Facebook page, they are making themselves more available to anyone interested in their services. With the ever-increasing importance of social media, company Facebook...

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Tell me what you want me to do!

Have you ever sat through one of those time share pitches?  I've had the privilege of sitting through several in my life time and each one wraps up with a clear message-  "BUY NOW".  Time share sales folks want you to sign up before you leave.  They know that if you leave the presentation and think it over you probably won't be back or you might go look at...

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Hold the spam when promoting your website

Almost every day I delete links from companies that are putting useless comments on our blog like:Hello, I love reading through your blog, I wanted to leave a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation. Wish you best of luck for all your best efforts. web designing companies Delhi, website making company in Delhi this is really nice. thank you for sharing.By Tallahassee web design on Do Outside Blogs Help Your Websites Search Engine ... As you can see...

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What to Post on Your Company's Social Media Pages

It seems like more and more we get clients that are joining the trend and having us put together social media pages for their companies. This is such a smart thing for them to do. The only problem is, once they're all set up and looking great, what in the world are they supposed to post? What follows is my (Aaron Manogue, Search Engine & Social Media Marketing Expert) response to a recent email...

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Measuring Return on Investment on PPC

Everyone knows that using Google and Facebook advertising is a very effective way to get your products and services in front of your target market. Facebook is possibly the most targeted platform to advertise on because of the fact that 92% of the 800 million + users willingly submit personal data such as age, sex, race, etc. to it. Google is right on track with their advertising because of their...

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Is Social Media Necessary for Your Company?

Every day now it seems like we talk with a client or prospective client that asks us why it's important for "a company like theirs" to use social media. Most of them belong to major manufacturing or industrial companies, that if you think about it, might not make any sales off of a site like Facebook or Twitter. So why is it STILL important for companies like that to be involved in social media....

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What the New Facebook Means for Businesses

Everyone that uses the "almighty" Facebook has definitely noticed their big changes that they implemented last week. And as many of you know, not very many people are happy about them. You are just worried about that business Facebook page that they've spent hundred of hours on building, maintaining and expanding. So what do all of these changes mean for you and your business page? There are two...

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Facebook Edgerank: How to Get Your Posts to Appear More Often on Your Fan's News Feeds

You make interesting posts and you try to be as personable as possible, but it just seems like your posts aren't popping up on your fan's feeds very often. What is it that determines which posts appear more often and higher on news feeds? It's called Facebook Edgerank and the higher you can make your rank, the more exposure you'll get to your fans. It's a win/win. Edgerank is a complicated algorithm...

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New .xxx domain names- How will they effect my business or trade mark?

ICANN (The domain name governing body) has recently announced the release of .xxx domain extensions. Members of the adult entertainment industry are now submitting registration requests for domain names with the new .XXX extension which correspond to their existing domain names and trademarks. Many of our clients have received solicitations from domain registrars encouraging them to file an application to block their domain from the .xxx extension with costs for this service between $200-$1,000...

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When to Tweet

I read a great article about when to tweet by Andrew Phelps who was basically reaping a presentation from Dan Zarrella so for those of you with  a short attention span like me here is my summary of Andrew's article that summarizes Dan's presentation. When and how often to tweet - A few key takeaways:If your goal is more followers Tweet More: Twitter’s A-listers — those with the most followers — tweet an average of 22 times a day If your goal is more visitors to your...

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Facebook Losing Millions of Users

Over the past month, there have been several national publications that have been reporting on the decline in user on the infamous social networking site Facebook. In response to the growing reports, Facebook released the following statement."From time to time, we see stories about Facebook losing users in some regions. Some of these reports use data extracted from our advertising tool, which provides...

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How much traffic do you need to make money with Google AdSense?

Recently we have built quite a few sites that offer freeware software or free content on a subject matter with an advertiser monetized publishing model and the majority of these clients are looking to AdSense as their revenue source.  For those of you that don't know Google AdSense is: "Google Ad Sense As defined by Google- An ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners can enroll...

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Why Facebook Fans are Valuable and How to Properly Supply Them with Marketing

They are as common in every day life now as eating, sleeping, and breathing. They are in magazines, on commercials, in stores; literally, everywhere we go. They are the begs and pleas from companies of all types to become a fan or "like" their Facebook page. Most people just tend to think, "What are we in high school again where everything is a popularity contest and the more people you know...

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Do Outside Blogs Help Your Websites Search Engine Rankings?

One of the questions we get quite often around here is "Does having a blog for my company help my search engine rankings?" My answer is Yes- a blog can absolutely help your search engine rankings. With that said let me be clear- Manipulation of search rankings is not the reason to start a blog. I know what your thinking, "Jon, you just totally contradicted yourself". Let me explain:  If your going to do a blog it needs to be a good blog with valuable content that is related to your...

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SEO for Local Businesses

Foremost Media Local SEO for BusinessesEvery day more and more people are putting away that big yellow phonebook and turning to local internet searches in their hometown. According to a recent article published on EntireWeb.com, research has shown that somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% of households do some kind of search for a local product or serviceEVERY SINGLE DAY! What does this...

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The Best Link Building Letter Ever

Let me preface this post by saying that building good quality links to your website is one the most effective things you can do to get better search engine rankings.  Apart from the actual content on your site much of where your positioned in the search engine rankings depends on the number of good quality related links to your site. Here at Foremost Media we manage a lot of...

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Multiple Language Sites Done Right

Over the past year the Foremost Media team has completed over a half dozen multi language website development projects. At the start of each of these projects one of the most common questions we receive is "Should we build the site with all the languages on the same domain or you use local domains for each language (example.de, example.it,example.nl, etc.)?" Google's Matt Cutts answers how webmasters should handle local content of a website. One message that we got loud and clear form this...

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QR Codes Have Come Of Age

So how is your company using QR Codes?  Do you know what a QR Code is?  I recently read an article about how over half of the connections made to the internet on any given day in 2012 will be on a mobile device.  We have been using QR Codes in our written proposals for the last few months.  Below is an example of one of the little graphics we use in our presentations: The time...

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SEO Basics Episode 1 Keword Research | Foremost Media

SEO Basics Episode 1 Key Word Research | Foremost Media Tune in and watch the Foremost Media team as we break down the steps involved in getting your site to rank well on the search engines. In this episode we discuss keyword research. Key word research is one of the first steps in the search engine optimization process and is often overlooked by webmasters. Jon Ballard breaks down some of the keyword basics and provides links to several tools used by our professional Search Engine Marketers...

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Have a Google Adwords campaign? Beware of "Invalid Clicks" or "Click Fraud"

Recently we had a client who we run a large Adwords campaign for that asked us, "Why are all of these credits to my account appearing on my statement for Google Adwords as "Invalid Clicks"? An "Invalid Click" is defined by Google as: "Invalid click activity consists of any clicks or impressions that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings, and for which we decide...

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How secure are your passwords?

Hackers are getting more sophisticated all the time.   Let's look at a few common passwords and the maximum time it would take a hacker to figure out each password using a simple key search attack: Passwords using just numbers (0123456789): 2-4 number passwords etc: Less then 1 Second 5-6 number passwords:  About 10 seconds 7 number passwords: 17 Minutes  Passwords using the...

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