Search marketing advertising still remains the leader with 49% of revenues, up 2% from last year, followed by display (banners) at 23%, the same as last year. That $14.9 billion spent by U.S. Internet advertisers during the first six months of this year represents a 23.2 percent year-over-year increase, eclipsing last year’s first-half record of $12.1 […]
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Google Dominates Search Advertising in 2010
Well hardly surprising really but the chaps at Google must be rubbing their hands with glee. Why? It's estimated Google’s full-year search advertising revenue last year rose 20 percent to $25.4 billion. That's $25,400,000,000.00 folks. This gave Google a market share of 83 percent in 2010, up from 81 percent in 2009. Well hoohar! But […]
Facebook Most Popular Search Keyword in 2010
Well I have to admit I find it hard to believe that people search for Facebook and related terms but there you go. Here's an article that describes the details; New York, N.Y., Dec. 29, 2010 – Experian® Hitwise®, a part of Experian Marketing Services, has analyzed the top 1000 search terms for 20101 and […]
Internet ad revenue tops $12 billion in first half of 2010
Despite the ailing economy a new record has been set for Internet advertising revenue in the first half of 2010 – $12,000,000,000, that's 12 billion! Search advertising produced the most revenue, pulling more than $5.7 billion of advertising spending in the first half, an 11.6% improvement over last year. Display advertising—which includes banners, digital video […]
4 Banner Advertising Networks
There was a rumor going round a while ago that banners didn’t work anymore. They may have become a bit cheaper, which is a good thing when your handing over a large portion of your budget to the Pay Per Click networks. Advertising.com alone handles 10billion transactions a day! And all of them with sophisticated […]
Are Your Lead Generation Strategies Working?
Twitter is exploding at the moment and everyone is climbing on the bandwagon, blogging about its benefits etc, and you could be forgiven for thinking that this was the new easy way to online success. In the real world, clients want to talk about search engines, search engine optimization or search engine marketing (Google Adwords […]
Whats Killing The Newspapers?
I’ve been reading recently about some major newspapers requesting, and getting, tax breaks because they are failing in the current economy. A tax cut has been approved in Washington state; I quote “Newspapers across the country have resorted to layoffs and other cost-cutting moves to deal with a wounded business model and a recession-fueled drop […]
1031 ways to make money in slow real estate markets
Well, they probably don’t get any slower than this do they? My good friend and business associate Paul Da Costa and I have just started a joint venture with Rev. Keith Lyndon, Certified Exchange Consultant and the man behind the Academy of Creative Real Estate. His property exchange training manual, 1031 ways to make money […]
siteBOSS PASSES Microsoft Platform Test For Hosted Solutions
On Friday 02/06/2009 siteBOSS, TRS Technology’s Internet Marketing Website system, was tested by Microsoft and successfully passed! siteBOSS PASSES Microsoft Platform Test For Hosted Solutions That’s quite a mouthful, so what does it mean? Well, it means a couple things; siteBOSS is built to recognized development standards. This means that the system architecture is correct […]
New Keyword Research Tool
I wanted to let you know about this really cool free brand new keyword research tool that runs inside Firefox browser. Not only is it free to download but it is an nlm opportunity with a twist! We are going to see a lot more services like this coming out. Its been developed by Brad […]