In October, Doug Lacombe, a friend of mine, sent me an email saying that Oasis Spa was looking to try some new things to promote gift certificates to the Calgary market. Every year the owner, Peter Smed, offers various denominations of certificates to people who need an elegant, valuable, easy to buy gift for a…
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Quickinar on Landing Pages and Increasing Conversions
Next week – Thursday, April 14th – Ernest Barbaric is hosting a Quickinar on the topic of Landing Pages that Convert Visitors to Prospects. I have seen Ernest’s presentation and it is excellent. If you are in sales, marketing or website development, I would highly encourage you to attend. During the seminar Ernest will be…
Why Are My Ads Showing in the Philippines When My Target is Canada?
That is the question I received in an email this morning from a client of mine. I panicked, thinking I had accidentally changed the geo-target settings in Google AdWords. After assuring that this was not the case, I started looking into what could possibly be causing this. Let me set the stage a little bit…
Jeff and Doug – Promo Video for 6 Hours to Online Strategy
Doug and I wanted to put together a video to promote the upcoming workshop on 6 Hours to Online Strategy, slated for Monday, November 29th. There are 20 spots and very few left but we wanted to create a video for the social media release that we are putting together with Marketwire. You can register…
Google Product Extensions
Flipping through the Website Magazine, I stumbled across an article called “Flexing Your Marketing Muscles with Google Product Extensions” by Brian Lewis. This article is about Google Product extensions which are putting an end to the 70-character ad text which is incredibly restricting, the ‘one landing page per keyword’ rule and the fact that image…
“See Search Terms” Google Tool
Google has added another tool to make PPC maintenance just a bit easier. It has been there for a little while now but I just recently realized the time saving power of this tool. There are many reports available to the AdWords advertiser – some helpful, some just a lot of data on a page…
Internet Marketing Conference – Calgary March 16-17
We have been so busy planning the first ever IMC conference in Calgary that we forgot to publish a post. Here is a link for more details: Internet Marketing Conference – Calgary 2010. Great line-up of speakers. So far 60 people have registered. Ends on St Patrick’s Day – March 17th. Topics include Social Media, Gaming,…
