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 »

Have I lost The Links to my domain?

I have had several of my students to contact me over the last few weeks because they’ve thought some of the links they have built to their websites have been lost. Typically in SEO, one of the ways we can tell which links we built are indexed by the search engines is by is by [...] 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 »

Why SEO costs what it does

Why SEO costs what it does and why you should never hire someone who fills out your lead form and gives their address as @gmail.com I need to go on a rant here for a minute.  Has this ever happened to you?  On four separate occasions in the last three weeks someone with an e-mail [...] 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 »

What do you do if your’re going on TV in twelve hours and your website doesn’t work?

Sounds like an impossible situation, but that is exactly what happened last week. Although I cannot tell you who this public figure is, I can tell you that we were contacted to finish their website, get it working so that people could view their video and fill out a form showing their support. 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 Frugal Theme Developer Eric Hamm

Eric Hamm, the developer behind Frugal Theme (which is the theme that the Yada Yada Marketing site is built on) was kind enough to spend a few minutes with me. Here's the interview in full. If you are interested in word press, web development or just want to know more about how you can build your own site without having to learn how to code, then enjoy! Read more »