On the heels of Facebook turning 6 years old, LinkedIn hits another large benchmark. On February 11, LinkedIn announced their 60,000,000 member.
Not sure what that exactly means. It means more and more people are going to LinkedIn to find employment through via networking and more people are doing business through LinkedIn. This also shows rapid [...]
Category Archives: Web Marketing
Another Milestone in Social Media
February 12, 2010 – 10:02 am
A Glimpse Into the Future
February 9, 2010 – 10:37 am
The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
Google Hints at Speed Requirements
December 29, 2009 – 11:52 am
This past week, in an interview with Web Pro News, Matt Cutts from Google hinted that the load time of your page may become a factor in page ranking.
Google hasn’t released all of the details, and they probably won’t (we still don’t know the exact algorithms Google uses to determine page rank – it’s a [...]
Word Press, the CMS of choice
November 25, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Chances are you’ve heard the word “blog.” Chances are you’ve heard of Word Press. Some of you may have blogs on your own site. You might even use Word Press as a blogging platform for your own blogging needs. But chances are you don’t know that Word Press can be used as a content management [...]
Why Blog
August 26, 2009 – 3:43 pm
We recently wrote a post on our construction division’s blog, The Brand Constructors, that we thought you’d enjoy. It is about why you would want to blog. Check it out at: http://brandsunderconstruction.com/blog/?p=13
We Don’t Need a Web Site! Not for what we do!
July 1, 2009 – 10:58 am
I can’t tell you how many times I heard this in the late 90’s “We don’t need a web site!” – I thought it would go away but somehow I still hear it at least once a month.
My simple answer is that if you are in business you better have a web site – and [...]
A New Degree
May 6, 2009 – 9:40 pm
I received a surprising email this morning from one of my web marketing newsletters with an ad for a new bachelors degree and masters degree for Internet marketing. Over the last decade, traditional graphic design programs at the universities have segmented separate courses and degrees for web design & media arts, but this is the [...]
Some Say Twitter Isn't Popular
February 20, 2009 – 3:17 pm
Design the Planet recently joined the Twitter ranks and started Tweeting (adding text about what we’re doing). We have read articles and talked extensively about the benefits of the service and the lack of actual usefullness the website service offers. One thing is for sure, Twitter is popular and surging in the number of users [...]
Web Content Redoux
November 20, 2008 – 6:10 pm
It’s that time of year! The Holidays are quickly approaching, and businesses need to get their customers’ attention in the most efficient way. So, smart entrepreneurs are refreshing their web content!
PUSH THE REFRESH BUTTON!! Quick!! Do it before the “window” closes!
Really, you can’t miss the end-of-the-year update event. Why you ask? Because, right now your customers and clients [...]
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