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Theme of the Month: Search Engine Marketing

Long were they days when you could launch a website and expect to get people calling your phone and/or buying your product based on the idea of just having a website. Your online presence alone cannot get you the growth and success you are seeking without some critical and essential Search Engine Marketing (SEM)  strategies like “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO). (more…)
August 2, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Social Media Wrap Up

Over the past month we’ve taken a close look at social media in today’s world as it relates to online development, design, and marketing. As a relatively new phenomenon, social media has grown immensely and has transformed from an afterthought into a vital component of various marketing mixes and has turned many skeptics into believers in terms of its effectiveness. (more…)
July 28, 2010
Development

Under Development: A New Type of Location Sharing

There have been a lot of location- based applications developed to help connect you and your friends and family using GPS via your mobile device.  Applications such as Foursquare, Brightkite, and Google Latitude, give users the ability to broadcast their locations anytime, anywhere to anyone else using the same service.  With all of these exciting new capabilities being put to use, we here at Ninthlink, couldn’t wait to get involved. We’ve been working with Qualcomm to develop the online/web side…
July 25, 2010
Marketing

Industry Trend: Consolidation of Social Media

It was bound to happen sometime, and this appears to be the year.  As a relatively new phenomenon, the realm of social media has kinda been like the old Wild West, a space dominated by self proclaimed ‘experts’, a lack of clearly defined structure and place in a marketing mix. (more…)
July 22, 2010