Bill Hartzer

Mashable Open Web Awards Voting is Open

The Mashable Open Web Awards is the only multilingual (i.e., in several languages) international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 different categories. This year, Mashable is partnering ...

Mark Cuban Charged with Insider Trading: Just What Mamma Needs?

The Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban has been charged today by the SEC with insider trading. Apparently Mark Cuban dumped his shares in Mamma.com right after he confidentially learned about a stock offering from the CEO of Mamma.com. This was back in 2004. Immediately after I heard about Mark Cuban being ...

Am I Really Running for President?

A friend of mine just sent this video to me, which is pretty amazing, as I know that I was thinking of running for President, but really. Yes, I guess I am now running for President, as it seems to becoming a viral thing. If you take a look at the ...

Viewzi Search Engine Brings Fun Way to Discover Online Content

Viewzi is a new search engine that is trying to deliver a fun and interactive way to discover content online. Viewzi just launched their new type of search engine, bringing a visually-pleasing experience to the way we search for sites. Viewzi uses their proprietary intelligence to source information from top online ...

5 Top Tips for Bloggers and Marketers on a Friday

Since today is sort of a slow news day, being Good Friday and everything, I thought that I would mention 10 or more items that are useful tips for bloggers and marketers alike. Legit News Photos for Free. Om Malik has the scoop on PicApp, where you can get legit news ...

Blue Man Group Puts on Incredible Show in Las Vegas

I had the amazing opportunity to see Blue Man Group this week in Las Vegas thanks to my friend Joe Morin. I am speaking this week at the WebmasterWorld Pubcon conference being held this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Blue Man Group is puts on a great Las Vegas ...

Zvents Names Paul O’Brien Director of Marketing

      Zvents, a local search engine for events, has named Paul O'Brien as Director of Marketing. Mr. O'Brien will lead Zvents' corporate communications, corporate and brand marketing, their go-to-market strategy and planning, and Zvents' search and internet integration. Paul O'Brien was previously the head of interactive marketing at ...

Yet Another List for You: Name in My Domain Name

I was scouring digg today (like I do all day every day), and found a list that you might be interested in. Well, if you're a blogger like me then you might be interested in the "name in my domain name" list of bloggers who, yes, have their names in ...

b2bYellowpages.com Offers Businesses Free Directory Listings

b2bYellowpages.com is now offering businesses free directory listings. Their B2B directory will display business-to-business websites at no cost or obligation to their members. According to Andrew Wax, President and CEO, "Our local search capabilities have greatly expanded over the past year. The success with this has our members requesting greater ...

Bill Hartzer Blog

Well, yes, I've finally taken the plunge and decided to change my own personal site, here at BillHartzer.com, and make it an official blog. I've been running/adding/updating blogs for like 2-3 years now and have to say that I've been pretty successful at it. But cannot believe that I'm finally ...

Amazon.com Shuts Down Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...
June 24th 2009
Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing 3 Comments

Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...
June 18th 2009
Tags: Internet Usage 6 Comments

comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Google's websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), ...
June 17th 2009
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 9 Comments

Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million "Q&A pairs". Ask.com used their "proprietary core search technology" launched in the fall of 2008 and came up with 300 million ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 18 Comments

User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the ...

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