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2010 Holiday Marketing Guide.

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Sunday September 12, 2010 )

Here we go again. You may not have started thinking about your holiday marketing strategies yet, but some of your competitors likely have. (more…)


Email open rates steady, click rates down

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday September 11, 2010 )

The Q2 2010 North America Email Trends and Benchmarks Results show steady email open rates, but a decline in clickthroughs. (more…)


Bing grabs 24% U.S. search market share

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Thursday September 9, 2010 )

With Bing now powering Yahoo, Bing’s combined powered search accounted for 24.56 percent of U.S. search traffic for the week ending August 28. (more…)


An expensive 21 characters

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Tuesday September 7, 2010 )

Watch those tweets. A measly 21 characters of text has cost an Australian swimmer a lucrative sponsorship. (more…)


Gamer suing for gaming addiction

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Sunday September 5, 2010 )

Something that may be of interest and concern to online games companies – a man in Hawaii is suing a provider for his addiction to their online game. (more…)


Coupon use online – Canada vs. USA

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Saturday September 4, 2010 )

Coupon use continues to increase, but there are major differences between online coupon redemption between Canada and the USA. (more…)


The Internet’s new billion

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Friday September 3, 2010 )

Ka-ching! Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will have 1.2 billion folks online by 2015 according to The Boston Consulting Group. (more…)


Fake user reviews – don’t be tempted

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Monday August 30, 2010 )

Many online merchants have been tempted at some stage or another to post positive reviews about themselves around the web while posing as a customer. It’s not just unethical, it’s illegal. (more…)


Internet Explorer 6 – die already!

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Saturday August 28, 2010 )

Internet Explorer 6 is now 9 years old and increasingly becoming a headache for web developers. Even Facebook has had enough of it. (more…)


Google adds to domain search listings

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Tuesday August 24, 2010 )

Google has announced it will now display more than 2 listings for the same domain for some queries. (more…)