Headless Mannequins and Live Bunnies plus setting up Google+ for your biz!

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Marketing Fail of the Week Headless Mannequins and Live Bunnies This video was taken by me in Manhattan a few weeks ago.  Live bunnies and headless mannequins–not sure if it helped sales at all Google News-Google+ Business Pages–Video on how to set up! By Laura Google+ is gaining headway and this time I think Google [...] Read more »

Newsletter: Facebook Tops Google and Local Results Changed!

Marketing Fail of the Week Courtesy of Facebook Friend A good reason not to litter?? Facebook now TOPS Google by Laura CNN is now reporting that Facebook traffic had passed Google and in a hurry! My friend Ryan Deiss predicted this in January and man was he ever right. Now, Ryan has massed the largest [...] Read more »

My exile from Facebook and my way back to their good graces.

Yes, Facebook disabled ME! About two weeks ago I found myself exiled from Facebook. I went to login as I do several times a day and I discovered my account had been disabled for violating the terms of service. At least that’s what the cold screen said. There was a link to click if you [...] Read more »

Google is testing previews

I know I’ve always been telling you about all the Google changes–sometimes I like them and sometimes I don’t. For example, I don’t like Google instant, the new change that shows search results before you’re done making a query. In fact, I’ve turned that off as I found bothersome. I am though, very interested in [...] Read more »

YYMI Newsletter Oct 26-A quick Update and a funny marketing fail

Marketing Fail of the Week Courtesy of Failblog.org Something tells me that the good folk in Salt Lake Utah didn’t realize they had a branding issue. It pays to check out a proof before going to print. The Cats Out of the Bag… by Laura In our last newsletter I alluded to a well known [...] Read more »

Yada Yada Newsletter July 13, 2010-Why Social Media Might be More Important than Google

I'm not sure if you missed this or not but about six weeks ago Facebook changed its designation of fan pages and they are now just called "pages" If you are so inclined you can quote unquote "like them." Not only that, Facebook overtook Google is the number one website worldwide. Read more »

YYMI Newsletter April 12, meet Moolah, my cash cow!

Marketing Fail of the week found by our own Steve Blom This one is wrong on so many levels.  It does, however, gives you an idea on why historically speaking advertising not trusted!  I suspect the drug commercials and ads of today will be seen in the future in the same sort of light. Don’t [...] Read more »

Podcast: Interview with Apture community manager, Andrew Machado

Listen as Yada Yada Marketing President and Andrew Machado talk about Apture's new magic bar (it's really bad ass and it's the cool bar you see on the top of the page when you scroll down,) their WordPress plugin, SXSW and a bunch of other interesting tidbits! Read more »

Yada Yada Newsletter March 16 Facebook Overtakes Google, Four Square and when to fire a client!

More new technology…lions and tigers and bears, oh my! March 16, 2010 Marketing Fail of the Week Some of the marketing fails I put here, I find on the internet, but I found this one in my local supermarket.   I did some research and this is most probably Brittish in origin.  I don’t suspect there’s a [...] Read more »

Yada Yada Marketing Newsletter March 4, 2010– The more things change, the more they stay the same..Marketing, social media and a cute cat and a monkey

Reader Feedback: "I've been learning online marketing for several months and it's refreshing to read your articles...full of great data and no hype!" Read more »

Political Marketing and Barack Obama

Political Marketing in the Real World Barack Obama, perhaps more than any other candidate of late, has truly mastered the utilization of both digital and conventional political marketing outlets to reach a wide audience and keep his supporters energized. Putting aside any political leanings for the moment, the Democratic political marketing machine, with Barack Obama at [...] Read more »

Examining the Political Marketing Environment

Political Marketing 101 Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have been recent suprises in the current GOP political marketing campaign of 2012. Their ability to connect with voters and energize a crowd has stunned and impressed the media. Both candidates have utilized the political marketing services of popular social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to help [...] Read more »