Bill Hartzer

Worst Demographic Targeting Ever: Hannah Montana Tickets Given Away on Digg

  I usually do not make it a habit of pointing out badly implemented online promotional campaigns. However, in this case, I could not help but point out one of the worst demographic targeting that I have ever seen on the web. Hannah Montana tickets are being given away ...

Time Warner and Road Runner Attempting to Monetize by Hijacking DNS

Here we go again. Third Pipe predicted it and now it's happening. Time Warner, using their Road Runner internet service, is attempting to monetize typo domain names and domain names that are not found when their users are type a domain that doesn't resolve. If you are a Road Runner customer, ...

Moving to Dallas Interactive Marketing Firm VIZION Interactive

For several years now, I have been the main search engine marketing expert at MarketNet in Dallas, Texas. After talking for quite some time with Mark Jackson over at VIZION Interactive, I have decided to make a move. Starting Monday, February 25th, 2007, I will be at VIZION Interactive. VIZION Interactive was ...

CNN Fails to get IReport.com Live; Oilman Leaves Range, and Other News

There is a lot going on this week and it is only Monday, January 21st 2007. I thought I would catch you up on some of the interesting, totally unrelated things, not in any order of importance. I considered covering each of these items today, but CNN Markets Domain Name ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 30, 2007

Every week I try to go through the blogosphere and see what everyone's talking about. This week I thought I'd take a look at the SEO (search engine optimization) blogs. I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I recently turned off nofollow on this site. So, if you comment ...

Monday Marketing Foo for July 23, 2007

Jeremy Liew, a venture capitalist with Lightspeed Partners, has a great post about usage numbers of social networks. Hat tip goes to Robert Scoble for mentioning it. Matt Cutts recently spoke at WordCamp2007. If you're interested, Stephanie Booth took notes. Matt Cutts talked about a few ideas for bloggers, including: - make ...

Monday Marketing Foo

Want a free iPhone? Sign up to be a writer at Mahalo, Jason Calacanis' new search engine. The first 100 part time guides who reach 100 search results get a free iPhone from Mahalo. Go here to sign up. You get paid $10 to $15 for each search result that ...

Topix Appoints Chris Tolles as CEO

Topix, a leading news community on the internet, is transitioning from a news aggregator to a news community and "top 20 news site". As a part of this transition, Topix.net has appointed Chris Tolles as Chief Executive Officer. Chris Tolles is a longtime marketing executive and a mamber of the founding ...

Business Marketing Association Winners of 32nd Annual 2007 Pro-Comm Awards Competition

The Business Marketing Association (aka the BMA) has announced a total of 139 winners of its "B2BREAKTHROUGH" 2007 Pro-Comm Awards competition. There were several unique categories, including Blog and Online Mindshare, which reflect the changing business environment. What's also interesting is that these categories drew a "new crop" of entrants ...

Ingenio and Medio Combine Forces to Mobilize Pay Per Call

Ingenio and Medio are teaming up to "mobilize" Pay Per Call. They're going to extend the Ingenio Pay Per Call ad network and put "mobile consumers in direct touch with local advertisers". Ingenio will team up with Medio Systems to integrate Pay Per Call ad listings into the Medio MobileNow ...

Bill Hartzer is the head search engine marketing, social media marketing, and website marketing expert at Vizion Interactive, Dallas / Fort Worth Texas based interactive marketing firm that offers search engine optimization, pay per click, and other online marketing services. Do you need online marketing services? Let's talk!
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July 1st 2008
Tags: Social Networking 5 Comments

Got a Look-Alike? iLookLikeYou Social Network Launches

How many times has someone come up to you and say, "I know someone who looks exactly like you!" Just yesterday I was at a car dealership and one of the service guys started talking to my wife, just as if he has known her for years. The problem is ...
June 27th 2008
Tags: personal blog 4 Comments

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 ...
June 26th 2008
Tags: Hot Search Terms 5 Comments

We Searched for the iPhone 7 Million Times During April 2008

According to comScore, the company that measures searches on the web, we searched seven million times for the Apple iPhone during the month of April, 2008. They also are reporting that Google delivered a disproportionate number of iPhone-related clicks. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released a study on "iPhone"-related keyword search phrases ...
June 24th 2008
Tags: Search Engines 4 Comments

Searchme Adds Visual Search Features and Social Bookmarks to Search

Searchme has added new visual search features to their site. These new features, called Stacks and Media Search, will help you find, organize, and share information. Media Search for videos and images has content from YouTube(TM) and Flickr(TM). Stacks are visual bookmarks that you can share via email, via your blog, ...
June 20th 2008
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore Releases May 2008 Search Engine Rankings

comScore has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search engine rankings for May, 2008. Last month, searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion core searches. Google increased their market share slightly according to the stats. In May, Google's core searches reached 61.8 percent, which was up ...

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