Travel Muse Brings “Discovery” To Travel Search

June 16th, 2008

The Travel category online is an example of how the Internet has made our lives both easier and more complicated. It very clearly exemplifies “the paradox of choice.” Indeed, there are hundreds of travel sites that provide booking services and travel content of one sort or another. You’re “empowered” with information but also potentially overwhelmed [...]

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Tags: Hotel Marketing · Internet Marketing · Social Media Marketing for Hotels · Travel Marketing

New product from Google Adwords: TV Ads

June 11th, 2008

Last week, Google Analytics announced AdWords TV Ads. The service allows to upload a TV ad as a video file to an AdWords account and, with a few clicks, start a campaign by choosing from more than 90 nationwide TV stations to air the ad.
Google announced that it has added a TV Ads report for [...]

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Tags: Internet Marketing · Online Advertising · Social Media Marketing for Hotels

Hitwise: UK Hot Online Shops

June 9th, 2008

Hitwise published the IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List, which ranks by popularity the top 50 UK e-retailers selling goods and services within the IMRG Index Classification. The list include Amazon UK, Apple Computer, Play.com, Tesco.com, Argos, and Amazon.com.
Hitwise published last week the new Special 2nd Edition of the IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List, which ranks by popularity, [...]

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Give back a Penny to Charity any time you Search

June 5th, 2008

Microsoft has launched today the latest version of the Search and Give program which allows you to select a charity to receive some cash every time you use Microsoft Live Search to search the web.
The program has been around for over a year and has raised more than $250,000 for 20,000 local schools and non-profit [...]

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Representing Your Business on the Social Web

June 3rd, 2008

Social Media is all about conversation with customers. Online success of any business may rely more than ever on having a voice that people can trust, rely upon and consider it as credible source for information about a company or a product.
Marketers have ratcheted up their use of social media sites, which continue to garner [...]

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