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Squeaky Gets a Visit from Seneca College


Recently, we received a special visit from Professor Anthony Kalamut (@SouthSideAdGuy) and his students from Seneca College’s Creative Advertising Program. The group traveled down from Toronto on a tour of New York ad agencies and came over to see what the noise was all about…

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Twitter to ‘Ad’ Promoted Tweets to Your Timeline

We all knew it would happen one day. First we saw them in our search results then in third party apps like HootSuite and now it looks like promoted tweets will live in our very own timelines sooner than later.

Marketers may have a new tool in their arsenal now but we have to remember that Twitter users will likely see this as an intrusion on their networks. This is why it is imperative to still continuously provide valuable content rather than just straight selling your brand or product.

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Social Media and Small Business

Nowadays everyone is using social media. It is an easy, cost-effective way to broadcast your company or business and it works especially well for small businesses. Using sites like Facebook, Twitter, or a Blog help you to connect with those who directly fuel your business and help spread the word around the web. We found a few examples of small businesses doing a great job of using these different platforms to improve their company.

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Is Groupon Bad for Business?

Chicago-based start-up, Groupon has taken the world by storm with their daily deals, offering consumers deep discounts from featured retailers. But is their business strategy focused less on the merchants who offer these deals and more on their own profits? We’ll begin this post with an example of a Groupon offer hurting a business and follow it up with an example of how it has helped a business in order to try and determine what can be done to create a mutual benefit for consumers, merchants and Groupon.

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Free Friday: 3 Useful Augmented Reality Apps

Augmented Reality may seem like a passing fad but due to its remarkable capability as a marketing tool we will likely continue to see it used more and more.

We’ve found a few free useful applications that use Augmented Reality to help users in different ways as well as some awesome ways advertisers and marketers are using it to create a new engaging experience.

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