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Google

If you have a small business, you know you don’t have tons of money to waste on pay-per-click advertising that doesn’t convert. But, how do you target the right local customers in their given location?  Here’s a cool hack that uses Google Local Business Center coupled with Adwords to create a hyperlocal, spot-on ad campaign that will crush your competitors.

What you end up with is creating a super-targeted and hyperlocal PPC advertising that focuses directly on the customers that ring your cash register without breaking your budget.

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Trakkboard (free) gives you Google Analytics data on your desktop and the ability to easily create dashboards that pull data across multiple Google Analytics logins and profiles. Trakkboard uses the Google Analytics API to load data from Google Analytics and to display top level metrics all within the same view. It’s a neat little application and time saver for those of you that manage multiple Google Analytics profiles and would like an easier way to display the data on one screen.

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Google Wave Cheat Sheet, Tips & Tricks and Tutorials

by Bob Hazlett on October 20, 2009

A nice collection of Google Wave tips, cheats and tutorials.

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Search Engine Marketing Basics – How the Google Ad Auction Works

by Bob Hazlett March 16, 2009

A great introductory video on how the Google Ad Auction actually works.  Chief Economist, Hal Varian (Mr. Personality 2003) shows how your max CPC bid and quality score determine how much you pay for a click within your Adwords account.

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Online Marketing and Social Media Week In Review – Bobby Digital Edition

by Bob Hazlett February 7, 2009

Online Marketing and Social Media week in review for Feb. 7, 2009.  Bobby Digital talks about the Google Latitude debut, Facebook joining the Open ID alliance, Urchin 6.5 as well as Social Camp Memphis and Social Media Expedition.

Special thanks to David After Dentist

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Online Marketing and Social Media Week in Review – January 31st

by Bob Hazlett January 31, 2009

In case you were too busy giving birth to 8 kids this week, here are some of the highlights you missed.
Advertisers are mashing online and offline events.  This week Facebook partnered with AT&T to stream a live Lil’ Wayne concert and Sunday Pepsi is hosting and online Super Bowl Party.  {NOTE: I wonder how you [...]

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Quick Online Marketing Tip – Update Your Negative Keywords

by Bob Hazlett January 22, 2009

Originally posted January 15, 2009
As budgets get tighter, take 20 minutes today to update your paid search negative keywords.  Negative keywords are those irrelevant or low converting keywords that you add to a pay-per-click campaign which tell the ad system not to show your ad when that particular keyword appears in a search.
To start, do [...]

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Online Marketing and Social Media Predictions for 2009

by Bob Hazlett January 22, 2009

Originally posted December 30, 2008
Everyone is making their 2009 online predictions these days, so I’d thought I’d throw my hat in the ring. Here are my online marketing and social media predictions for the new year. Tell me what you think will happen in the comments below. PS – I’ve made [...]

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Google Creating a Social Platform to Change the Web

by Bob Hazlett January 22, 2009

Originally posted September 15, 2008.
Over the past 5 years or so, Facebook, MySpace and every other social network have been getting a lot of press about how their site(s) brings millions of people and information together.  We’ve come a long way and many of these sites have opened up the internet in ways we [...]

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What I’m Reading this Week

by Bob Hazlett September 6, 2008

Google releases geo-performance reporting feature
10 Web Applications for FriendFeed
Social Media Breakfast #6 Memphis and an update from Sharing at Work
Will it Matter in 5 Years?
On Demand WordPress Theme and a nice Thesis Update
The Most Brilliant Outdoor Campaign Ever
How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business and 40 Creative Design Layouts from Smashing Magazine
I also ordered two [...]

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Google Tools You Can Implement This Week To Make Your Business Better

by Bob Hazlett August 10, 2008

Google Alerts Hack (via DuctTapeMarketing) – The premise of this is to use Google Alerts to see who is linking to your blog or picks up content you’ve recently published.  Think of it as a hybrid of Google Alerts e-mail alerts and blog pingbacks.  Very easy to implement – (1) Go to Google Alerts (2) [...]

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