Is Youtube Leanback A Revolutionary New Way to Unite Television with Youtube, or Another Social Media Waste?

In an attempt to slowly (quickly) take over the world, Google has reportedly recently decided to tap into the living rooms of millions of viewers and launch their new product, YouTube Leanback. This interactive television channel is a new way to watch YouTube, all without even having to click your mouse.

Because it’s able to connect to your TV, Leanback is your unique channel screening all of your favorite videos. You can sort the videos by your personal feed or a previously-determined genre, depending on which mood you’re in. Some refer to Continue Reading

How Google Plans to Conquer the World, One Product at a Time

A little less than two weeks ago, the mass of internet junkies gasped, shuddered and rolled their eyes at rumors based on a single tweet by social news site Digg’s founder Kevin Rose. Allegedly, and from a “very credible source”, his tweet tells us that Google is to launch a “Facebook competitor” dubbed “Google Me”.

As I am a curious person, I instantly began my pursuit to uncover the phenomenon of this one, tiny sentence. After searching on various blog posts and “Digging” through Rose’s Twitter account, there seemed to be no sign of this tweet anymore. Interestingly Continue Reading

Is Facebook really for you?

As social media marketing becomes a necessary and relevant part of today’s advertising world, we often get caught up in the hustle and bustle of making our presence known on hotshot social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. However, do we ever stop to think that maybe we limit our growth as a company by sticking only to these “main” social networks?

Don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer of all things social. A business should capitalize on the opportunity of brand awareness and inexpensive advertising by using these easy-access, omnipresent social sites. However, there are so many other options a business can take in the social media aspect than just Continue Reading

TriMark President Randy Goins Participates in McConnell Golf Challenge to Help Raise Money for WakeMed Children’s Hospital.

Raleigh, NC – June 17, 2010 – Joining up with over a dozen other local business Owners, CEOs, and Presidents, TriMark’s Randy Goins played in the McConnell Golf Challenge for WakeMed Children’s Hospital. In total, the event raised over $65,000 toward the opening of the new Children’s Hospital located at the New Bern Avenue Campus. 100% of all proceeds for the event went toward the children’s hospital foundation.

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For Many Businesses, Pissedconsumer.com is Negative Affecting Online Reputation Management Strategies by Dominating Google SERPs. Is Pissedconsumer.com a Legit Customer Review Website or Blackhat SEO Linkfarm?

If you do any sort of SEO (or PPC) work, you are probably familiar with www.pissedconsumer.com. Despite containing very little useful or valuable information, it has dominated Google’s search engine results pages since 2008. Sure, the site hosts tons of experiences and opinions from previous customers for almost every national brand in America, but is the content actually valuable?  Pissed Consumer hosts subdomain pages for countless companies, from Taco Bell to Best Buy, and everywhere in Continue Reading

Whether you’re writing copy for a personal or company blog, website, or pay per click landing page, optimized content is essential.

If you aren’t a professional copywriter, this can be a difficult and demanding task. So what makes website content optimized for search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc?

1. Write Your Own Content! – If you copy and paste information from a similar website, you are essentially shooting yourself in the foot. How did you find that site you’re copying? Google perhaps? If Google has already indexed that site, it knows the content on the site. If you copy it, change a few proper nouns, and paste onto your site, Google will Continue Reading