August 5th, 2009
If you’re someone like Ashton Kutcher, then you don’t have a problem getting a lot of followers on Twitter. If you’re someone like Ashton Kutcher, you can publicly challenge CNN to a Twitter popularity contest to see who would get 1 million followers first and then beat one of the largest broadcast news organizations [...]
Tags: How to twitter, online marketing, twitter followers
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August 5th, 2009
We often hear this question from our clients as we’re building their website and guiding them through the web development process: “What should my company and domain name be?” While there are no hard and fast rules, we always offer the following suggestions:
1. Search Engine Optimization will be an important method of building traffic for [...]
Tags: building website, company name, company url, web development
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July 15th, 2009
Getting your business to rank well in local San Diego search results should be a key component to your company’s web development plan. Ranking higher than other competitors in local search results on review engines and iyp portals (internet yellow pages) like Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, and Yelp gives your company the opportunity to [...]
Tags: San Diego Local Search Rankings, San Diego Web Development
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June 26th, 2009
While you may not be able to claim that Iran’s protests can be called a Twitter Revolution, the way news is being spread from Tehran does offer an insight into the online marketing powers of Twitter.
The New York Times wrote that critics disagree with naming these protests a Twitter Revolution because protests throughout Tehran were [...]
Tags: Iran revolution, online marketing, Twitter Iran
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June 26th, 2009
I had the opportunity to attend the Connect Sport Innovators Capital Forum on June 16th to meet with some of the industry leaders and up-and-comers in the traditional and action sports industries. Connect SI is “an accelerator for emerging action sports, sporting goods, and traditional sports companies focused solely on developing and sharing strategies for [...]
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June 17th, 2009
The Barefoot Solution’s team has been listening to the buzz about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, and so we decided to conduct our own informal investigation to review how Bing’s search capablities and new user interface applications affect searchability for e-commerce sites. We selected thirty different products, from web design to yoga mats, and searched [...]
Tags: design e-commerce site, Microsoft Bing, website reviews
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June 9th, 2009
File this one in your web marketing plan and set an alarm for this Friday. Facebook announced on its blog today that it will allow all of its members to select Vanity URLs for their profiles and fan pages starting this Friday, June 12, at 9:01 pm PDT.
Vanity URLs are customized [...]
Tags: facebook development, facebook fan page, facebook vanity url, san diego online marketing, web marketing
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April 1st, 2009
I was asked by a friend who recently started a band named Legitimate by Friday what were some ways they could leverage technology to help promote their band, get their name out, and get some fans to show up to their gigs. I gave this some thought and figured I would post it here to [...]
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March 1st, 2009
Here I am almost a year after my first post, trying to write my second post. The lesson here is that writing a blog is tougher than I thought it would be. Minutes after writing the first post I lowered the priority of this blog. Things like securing contracts, pleasing clients, managing staff and keeping [...]
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April 5th, 2008
I feel it’s only fitting that my first post should be an introduction of both this blog and it’s author. My name is Hunter Jensen, and I’m the CEO of Barefoot Solutions. I was born and raised in Virginia Beach, VA. My childhood home fostered in me an east coast work ethic and a love [...]
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