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Dennis Yu: local online marketing, facebook advertising, internet guru Archives: November 2009

30 November 2009

What’s a Facebook Fan cost? When is $10 a better deal than 10 cents?

Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com wrote today about a service that sells fans for 10 cents. On the surface, sounds great, right?  You could have 10,000 fans for only $1,000.

But wait a minute.  What share of those fans are

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30 November 2009

Unexpected ways that social media will ROCK your world

You’ve heard about the rise of Farmville on Facebook– 63 million users and growing, representing 20% of Facebook’s users, not to mention that Facebook represents 25% of pageviews in the United States.
But have you considered how game

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29 November 2009

Your great idea for a web start-up

I get pitched a ton of ideas and most of them are pretty good. No doubt, it’s a GREAT idea! Odds are that it might not be truly unique, as is typical in web entrepreneurship. However, the winner in the…

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28 November 2009

Sitelinks in Google PPC Ads– You don’t want to miss this!

Ever gone into AdWords and seen stuff you hadn’t seen before?  Google likes to keep releasing these features and not telling anyone about them– maybe to keep us on our toes or to use the general public for beta testing?…

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25 November 2009

Have You Seen Sitelinks in Google AdWords Premium Ad Positions?

We were doing a PPC audit for a home security reseller and noticed that the #1 paid spot has 4 sitelinks below the ad.

We’ve always known that you can get up to 8 sitelinks if you’re

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17 November 2009

This is why you don’t gossip on the Internet

Some affiliates are losing millions per month, I’m told, as a result of my TechCrunch post.  And Shoemoney has not been shy about his willingness to write blog posts for money. If someone is about to ‘topple an industry’ (highly…

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7 November 2009

Watch out! An army of local entrepreneurs is coming

Borrell Associates predicts that in 2009 local online advertising will hit $14.2 billion, while 2010 will be only $14.9 billion– a measly 5% increase.

I would agree that local online ad dollars

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3 November 2009

TechCrunch post on Facebook: What people are saying

Between my personal blog and that of BlitzLocal, we’ve gotten about 23,000 hits in the last 24 hours.  The TechCrunch Effect is when TechCrunch covers your site, typically on launch day, and brings…

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1 November 2009

FarmVille = ScamVille

It’s bad enough that there are over 60 million users (including me) wasting real time and real money growing virtual crops to earn virtual points.  A new article in TechCrunch blows the doors on an industry…

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