Tony Wright, a fellow Dallasite, friend, and interactive marketing and search engine marketing expert, has officially launched a new consultancy called Wrightimc. The goal of this new consultancy is to help advertising agencies, public relations firms, web design firms and in-house marketing teams create or enhance their existing search engine marketing practices into effective and profitable teams. [Read more…]

   

Didit, a full-service internet advertising and marketing company, has been ranked number 137 on Inc. Magazine’s 26th annual Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in the United States. Didit is being lauded for having a three-year sales growth of 1,368.5 percent. [Read more…]

      TravelCLICK, a company that specializes in hotel internet marketing solutions, has acquired Blue Square Studios, a company that provides web design, production, and search engine optimization services to the hospitality industry. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

This latest acquisition will present an interesting opportunity for hoteliers, which combines the merchandising and distribution technology of the TravelCLICK central reservation system with the web services available from Blue Square Studios.

Blue Square Studios, a company based in Phoenix, Arizona, has what they call a “web presence management system”, the “Hospitality Toolkit(R)”. With TravelCLICK’s iHotelier Central Reservation System and search engine marketing solutions, including PPC ads and ROI reporting, TravelCLICK has the ability to deliver a search engine marketing platform to the hotel industry from a single provider.

Blue Square’s web browser-based Hospitality Toolkit 2.2 allows hotels to update their websites as often as they like. The toolkit manages and delivers rich media content and integrates software modules to support dining reservations, guest requests, restaurant menus, packages and specials, photo gallery, spa
treatments.

TravelCLICK is a provider of emarketing solutions that help hotels sell rooms and drive profitability. TravelCLICK helps hotels maximize asset ROI by combining innovative market analysis and industry best practices with technology to develop and implement high-return strategies. TravelCLICK offers a set of solutions that includes reservations and distribution management, market intelligence-based decision support, and marketing services. TravelCLICK is headquartered in the Chicago area, and has more than 12,000 customers in 140 countries.

TopSEOs.com, a website that publishes monthly rankings of internet marketing firms in eleven categories, has created new seals for its members. [Read more…]

TruePresence, an internet marketing company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with fourteen “franchises” across the US, has come up with what they’re calling the “top 10 mistakes businesses make online”. It’s an interesting list, one that definitely covers most of the mistakes that companies make online. [Read more…]

Sage Lewis, founder of the search engine marketing firm SageRock.com, has officially announced Web Marketing Watch, a new daily video show online. [Read more…]