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Video Training Will Make You an Internet Marketing Ninja

posted on January 7, 2008

Internet Marketing NinjasHow would you like to be a ninja? No, not the black-masked, star-throwing kind, but the internet marketing kind!

Jim Boykin is already a legend when it comes to training internet marketing ninjas and now he’s compiled a series of marketing videos that are virtually guaranteed to make you an internet marketing expert in one weekend! Internet Marketing Ninjas offers over 15 hours of expert marketing training and advice from experts such as:

  • Andy Beal (that would be me)
  • Aaron Wall
  • Bill Slawski
  • Cameron Olthuis
  • Christine Churchill
  • Chuck Price
  • Jeremy Schoemaker
  • Jim Boykin
  • Jim Gilbert
  • Jill Whalen
  • Lee Odden
  • Neil Patel
  • Todd Malicoat

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The rest of the story

posted on March 2, 2007

Here’s some of the news also going on in the search world now:

  • Google Blogoscoped features an FAQ of Google censorship, including a pretty comprehensive history of censorship by Google—and not just on Google.cn. Says Phillip Lenssen: “For the scope of this FAQ I’ll define censorship as missing results which are filtered for reasons of politics or regulations, not because they’re spam, non-family friendly, or copyright-infringements (though your mileage may vary).”
  • Today is Yahoo’s 12th birthday, according to Wired. That explains why they’re having such a hard time lately—they’re in the ‘awkward’ stage.
  • eMarketer reports that Facebook is tops with the 17-25 demographic (free on a limited basis). As a member of that demographic, I say, “Duh. MySpace is for my 15-year-old sister and child predators.” Females in the demographic name MySpace and YouTube as numbers 2 and 3, respectively. Males pick YouTube and Yahoo! as 2 and 3 (MySpace is #6—ight above Wikipedia).

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A Christmas Wish List for 2011

posted on December 23, 2011

Hey Santa! Is it too late to drop in a quick wish list for this year for Christmas? You see, I write about a variety of things in the Internet and social media marketing space and there are more than a few things I would love to get as a gift (or maybe see as a trend) so I figured why not, right? You’re in the “dream coming true business” so I just thought I would fire this off to you.

My 2011 Christmas Wish List

  • Could you make sure that the words guru, maven and ninja and any others like them would be stricken from the social media lexicon and no one can use them again unless they are OK with being mocked and ridiculed? Thanks!

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Are SMB’s Just Confused About WOM and Social?

posted on August 9, 2011

Small and medium sized businesses rely heavily on word of mouth and referral advertising. We all know that and the point has been made ad nauseum.

Even with that in mind it seems quite interesting to see the findings of a study conducted by SMB insurance provider Hiscox. Essentially it says that many small businesses don’t find social media important yet half of them say that they couldn’t live without referrals from word of mouth (WOM) sources.

eMarketer shared the Hiscox findings

Note that only 12% say they have to do it while only 24% said they get involved in social media when they have the time. The rest?Well, 64% of the respondents said they either don’t use it for their business, don’t know enough about or don’t give a rip at all!

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SMB’s Continue to Increase Social Media Use

posted on April 28, 2011

It comes as little surprise that among the SMB crowd, social media is gaining more and more traction. For many of the common reasons that SMB’s can be slower to adopt certain manners and methods of anything (lack of time, lack of resources etc) the adoption rate of social media offerings has been slow to get going but it’s going. A recent report from the American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor (as reported by eMarketer) shows that the shift continues toward social media being an increasingly important part of the SMB marketing repertoire over the past 4 years.

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New Year, New Job?

posted on January 5, 2012

The jobs report yesterday was pretty good according to the pundits. If you work in the Internet and social media marketing space (and you are worth your salt as opposed to a guru, maven or ninja :-) ) the jobs report is going to be bright for quite some time to come.

So if you are looking for a new job in the Internet and social media marketing industry the Marketing Pilgrim Internet marketing job board is a great place for you to look for that next great opportunity.

If you are looking to hire that next great employee for your Internet and social media marketing needs then what better place to find that person than from our incredibly talented readers! Oh and the fact that it is only $27 /month / per listing to find that person makes it all the better.

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LinkedIn’s Valuation Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up!

posted on May 19, 2011

OK, before you read on do yourself a favor and sing this post’s headline to The Rolling Stones “Shattered” where Mick says “Don’t you know the crime rate’s going up, up, up, up, up!”. It’s fun, honest.

But back to the news. LinkedIn’s first day of trading is off to a killer start. TechCrunch reports

This is a big day for professional social network LinkedIn, which was founded in 2003. After filing its S-1 with the SEC in January, the company has begin trading its shares, under the symbol LNKD, on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. As we learned yesterday, LinkedIn priced its IPO at $45 per share, giving the company a valuation of $4.5 billion. Today, the company began trading at $83.00 per share, a 84 percent increase from $45 per share. That’s a $7.8 billion market cap. It’s now up to $90 per share, but is fluctuating.