Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings

Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find about the app, and as best I can tell, the iClarified blog was first to report on it. The…

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Future of Digital Marketing Malaysia 2013

The next will be the now in about 18 months. 

Digital marketing moves faster than any other market on earth. That makes peering into the future a kind of mission-critical activity.

But by ‘the future’ we don’t mean 5 years away – that would be ridiculous.  We mean the next 12-18 months. A timescale you can do something about; a timescale you can build into your plans.

The Future of Digital Marketing (FODM), now in Asia, is the only place where senior digital marketers (client-side and agency) can do four things:

  • Visionary keynotes and presentations on what’s coming up on the digital horizon
  • Get a quick, concentrated dose of insight into what’s around the corner
  • Compare notes with the most ambitious, innovative and interesting marketers in the game.
  • Get a potent shot of adrenalin to take back to the office.

… all topped off by relaxed networking at our evening drinks reception.

FODM takes senior digital marketing strategists on a fast-forward tour of the tactics and technologies that will change the way they engage with their audiences.

The Future, served up in three big chunks:

Setting the Scene:

We’re currently in teh age of the digitally-savvy consumer, and here’s what they have come to expect…

Keeping Up with the Accelerated Change:

These days we’re really trying to keep up with teh Jetsons after having said our goodbyes to the Flintstones. Its all moving so fast… how do we make it work across our business?

Figuring Out How to Make It Work:

As we follow the rainbow all the way, how do we make this digital stuff work a whole lot better, and we can ensure there’s a gleaming pot of gold at the end to keep our customers content?

Give us just one day – learn about the changing landscape, the use of digital marketing & media, the future of digital marketing from those leading the way. Get inside the minds of expert practitioners and leading thinkers to find out what needs to be in your development plans if you’re to be amongst the best.

The Bottom Line: Miss FODM and you’ll wonder what everyone’s chatting about as they zoom past you.

Local Weekend Update

What Else is New Dept: There is a new bug with the Google Report A Problem for SABs: If a user selects the report a problem link via Maps or G+ Local they get a “This page won’t load…We’ve tried everything” message. At least its cute. Although that sad face icon is eerily reminiscent of my first […]

One Out Of Five “Second Screeners” Look Up Advertised Product Info While Watching TV

  To give further credence to consumers’ love of “second-screening” and why marketer’s should be salivating at the opportunities these new habits behold, Nielsen released stats on just what consumers are doing on their tablets while watching TV. Social networking sites…

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Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong”

Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led to five times more malware than Google. To that Bing said, “the conclusions many have drawn from the study are wrong.” Why is the study wrong according to Bing? While…

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4 Ways To Take Your AdWords Scripts To The Next Level

Last week, I presented at HeroConf in Austin and shared some advanced tips for automating AdWords account management with an audience of PPC account managers. They seemed to like what I had to say; so, I’ll share a few of the more advanced scripting tips with you here. When you manage PPC accounts,…

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