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The local ad opportunity (and the danger of losing it)
Published 2/16/2009 by Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine
The promise of local ad support for news will come only if a new population of very small businesses can be served in new and effective ways - before Google beats everybody else to it. That’s apparent in the results of Webvisible and Nielsen surveys reported by MediaPost (via Marketeting Pilgrim and Frank Thinking), which show that local marketers are leaving newspapers and the yellow pages but are still dissatisfied with - and don’t pay enough attention to - internet marketing. Factoids: * 42 percent of small businesses say they use the local paper less and 23 percent use yellow ...

Announcing the IM Charity Party at SMX West!
Published 2/4/2009 by Lauren Vaccarello at Search Engine Journal
... knows that IM Charity throws some of the best parties at search marketing conferences, but what exactly will make this year’s IM Charity Party at SMX West stand out? For anyone who doesn’t know about IM Charity, it is THE networking event/party of most major search conferences. The IM Charity event at SES San Jose last year was the biggest ever, with over 300 attendees including internet marketing stars Barbara Boser, Chris Winfield, Andy Beal, Dave Snyder and Oilman. In addition to having a blast, we raised $40,000 ...

What Will Google SERP Changes Mean for Reputation Management?
Published 12/17/2008 by Chris Crum at WebProNews Feed
... industry in 2008 was the advent of more personalized search, and even more so, the new addition of SearchWiki showing up in Google," High Rankings CEO Jill Whalen recently told me. "It's too soon to really know what will happen with that, but my guess is that it will cause some reputation management nightmares for many companies." It's going to affect how marketers help their own clients maintain positive reputations as well. WebProNews Blog Partner Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim , who created the online reputation-monitoring tool Trackur , talked a ...

100+ Open Web Awards Blog Partners - Nominations End Sunday
Published 11/14/2008 by Adam Hirsch at Mashable!
... Internet Marketing Blog (English): Internet Entrepreneur, SEO/SEM Engineer, Web Developer Matt Brooks reviews on internet resources, awards, seo tools and new sites. Managing the Gray (English): Podcast and blog focusing on the ever changing world of social media and new marketing. Marcellus Blog (English): An exploration into building the pillars of the online media democracy Marketing Pilgrim (English): Daily internet marketing news with expert ...

Local and Mobile Search
Published 11/12/2008 by barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) at Search Engine Roundtable
Moderator: Andy Beal Speakers: Shailesh Bhat, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo Alex Porter, Vice President, Location3 Media Bill Mongovan, VP SearchCenter, Omniture Gregory Markel, Owner, InfuseCreative Description: Local search now comes from a real convergence of local targeting and mobile device usage. It covers the entire spectrum from the desktop shopper to the casual "get-it-now" cellphone user. This panel will look at local search from the varying perspectives of search engines, wireless audiences, and SEO/SEM marketers. ...

The Inquisitr supports the Open Web Awards
Published 10/30/2008 by Duncan Riley at The Inquisitr » Technology
... second great web boom grew and grew. Web 2.0 is suppose to be about openness, transparency, and about delivering something new. We believe that the Open Web Awards are the only major event focusing on this category that sticks to these ideals, being inclusive and yet more importantly offering true transparency as well. This is an event for the people, by the people, not beholden to personality or politics. There are some great sites already backing the event, including Marketing Pilgrim (Andy Beal), /Message (Stowe Boyd), How to Split an Atom (Steve ...