Modern day tourists ride around on technology and rely heavily on the internet for seeking information and planning tourism related activities viz. traveling, staying, shopping and dining. Extensive use of internet by the tourists makes it imperative for travel and tourism industry to up their ante and embolden their presence on the internet to reach [...]

According to the latest customer loyalty report, the tourism and hospitality industry is going through a better phase in comparison to the recession phase that was intense just a year back. However, two factors are exerting pressure on the hospitality industry, and these are:
1. Increased competition,                            and                                        2. Retaining loyal customers
Increased competition
As [...]

Advertising on Facebook seem to be catching attention of internet marketers. Some predict it to give a real tough competition to Google’s advertisings. A lot more companies are reserving a part of their budget for Facebook ads. This trend has significantly started showing up ever since Microsoft announced its $240 million investment [...]

Marketing and advertising has always been a prime mover of economic activity. They create a huge direct and indirect employment, a flow of money and initiate consumer activity that is a lifeline of any economy.
Owing to the criticality and necessity in business and revenue generation, marketing activity has mindlessly taxed the precious resources to achieve [...]

Marketers talking to CEO’s about brand awareness, search ranking and keywords hardly help, and end up as unable to break ice. Bang clear on target, and let him know and understand, if money isn’t spent here, there will be lesser products to sell and sales will eventually drop. Explain how search marketing brings in revenue at low costs, and how what you are doing will coincide with the growth of his business prospects. CEO’s are least interested in any kind of jingo, apart from the money if this can make. They need to see that searches are able to increase share holder value and help them make money.

What happens when you search for “PPC Service” in Google and find “Pocket PC Services” displayed as the inaugural result.
As a customer you might just go through the remaining results, that catches your attention or try on with a new search phrase for a better set of results.
As a more technology savvy user, you might [...]

Will social media survive in the long run? Not sure. But today and for the near future, you can’t do without it. You have to jump in even if you do not fully understand it, or you will go the way of print media.

Google AdWords is a powerful advertisement arena, by Google through which it is managing PPC sites. The problem is that, Google is being unfair by promoting its own products on every page it springs out. Google is indexing itself first amongst the PPC sites, whenever any keyword is searched for, here is the catch. Even if the keyword is not related to Google AdWords or Google Maps or some other Google product, Google is systematically favoring its own products, and indexing it foremost on most of the pages delivered by the search engine, irrespective of the keyword.

Why read, when you can witness? Last year surely has been the year for video marketing. What with more You Tube views than Google’s searches, video marketing is a more lucrative assignment. Finding ways and means to ensure that your video will not be lost in the crowd is what SEO would now be looking for. You do not expect to put together a video and hope it would generate business for you. You sure can add on a welcome video, a virtual tour, or a helpful tutorial video to your website, and use this as a riveting factor to compliment your content and your attractive web design. Expecting your videos to open up vistas all by themselves will require some innovative, creative and fresh approaches, which will now have to be accepted as a new challenge.

Some basic elements are very essential to the conversion rate of any landing page, and needs to be kept in mind right from the start. Here is a track list that will help you make and maintain a professional landing page in order to optimize conversions.

This is an online advertising format allowing you to buy your way right to the top. Just look onto the right side of the search results from pages for search phrases relevant to your business, and you will find this list growing by the day. Businesses are buying advertising on specific search phrases, and, which are then charged each time a visitor clicks through these results to their website. These ad spaces are purchased through PPC advertising suppliers, the main two large ones owned by Google and Yahoo. The program ran by Google is called Adwords, and displays results on Google.com, AOL, Ask Jeeves and many other smaller search programs. Yahoo’s ads are run by an acquired company Overture, and the results appear on Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and many other partners syndicating for this very purpose.

Who else would want to trademark ‘Tweet’ ? Well, its not Twitter for sure. After a couple of tries, Twitter failed to trademark its own creation.

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When Twitter requested for the reasons of denial – it was a surprise to them too.
Apparently, many other companies had applied for trademarks of terms which were very [...]

Giving is the name…Everybody is looking out for real life solutions to real life issues…

Stereotype solutions are only for board rooms….Real solutions and strategies are crafted inside the market…

And finally – Keep inventing new ways of compelling conversation – “There are no fixed rules”

Its the free tips not the freebies

Solutions are more important than Christmas [...]

Its the ‘Man versus Machine’ – and a novice will tell you that the Human factor plays a decisive role in the Brand promotion.

A personalized attention is always a clincher in most cases – on the other hand, a machine response is a big deterrent to collaboration.

Human presence rather than a machine response system

There [...]

Make friends with cynicism…

Negatives matter more than on-face approval..

If you have won over your harshest critics, the market is almost yours to be had…

I am not asking you to be defensive against criticism, but rather be extra rational and detail-oriented when responding in a social setup. A genuine and fact-based response will shape the market [...]