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Put a QR on it! Heard this lately? When I hear this, I first think of this clip from Portlandia. Then, I think about how great QR can be, but sadly, how easy it is to screw up your QR campaign. QR code usage increased 9,840% YOY through Q2 2011. Make sure your QR campaign is working for your interactive marketing plan, not against it. You can start by making sure you avoid the following QR FAILS: (more…)

I just got back from BlogHer ’11 in San Diego. What a great conference! With over 3,600 attendees, dozens of sponsors, and 2.5 days of speakers, parties and panels, it was a whirlwind of interesting insights, new connections and brand encounters. Needless to say, I came home Sunday afternoon and went to bed immediately for a three hour nap. But, I got the most out of the conference by having a strategy and goals for the conference. I’d like to share a few with you, since they may be helpful for any upcoming conferences you may be attending. (more…)

So, you have decided to start blogging for your business because you know the benefits of blogging for online marketing, social media and SEO. Excellent! Hopefully, you have worked with an internet marketing company to develop a social media strategy that will guide your blogging efforts, or have laid out some strategic details yourself. You have your editorial calendar guiding your efforts, and it seemed really easy to write your first few posts, but now you’re just staring at a blank screen. What to write?

First of all, don’t worry. Writer’s block happens to both blogger novices and pros.

Let’s look at 8 areas that you can glean some blog post topic ideas from: (more…)

Email marketing has been around a long time. How does this form of interactive marketing stay relevant and effective year after year? Because businesses using email marketing continue to see great bottom line results from their investment in this marketing channel.

August 2010 tLF Newsletter

Not one to miss out on any great online marketing opportunities, The Loud Few has been email marketing to our own client base since we opened in 2010. If you are one of our newsletter subscribers, you’ll know that we recently completed a major update to our newsletter design and layout. Here are a few details on what was involved. (more…)

Do you manage a Facebook Page? Wonder how you can comment as yourself on that Facebook Page? Then check out the video above to see where to update your Facebook Page’s settings. In order to comment as yourself on any Facebook Page you admin, you have to update the settings on each Facebook Page you manage. (more…)

With a growing amount of people spending the majority of their time online in social networks and most notably, on Facebook, the popularity of social commerce continues to grow.  And with almost half of the overall U.S. population expected to be on Facebook by 2013, the development of Facebook Ecommerce (or f-commerce) makes a lot of sense. (more…)

The DMA’s Email Experience Council and Epsilon recently released their Q4 2010 North America Email Trend and Benchmark Results, and email marketing continues to be an inexpensive and highly effective tactic in the marketing mix. If email marketing is part of your internet marketing solutions set, the industry specific averages can be very helpful in gauging your progress. The chart below is from the full report, which you can download here. (more…)