Bay Area web design news

MySpace says Sale of social marketing company is probable. MySpace is confirming with KO NEWS that their parent company News Corp. is looking for a way to unload its poor performing social media web property after unloading nearly half of its staff this week.

Need another reason to explain to your boss why you must be on Face Book all day? Facebook now has AMBER Alerts! Yes, that’s right. The social networking web site Facebook will now get AMBER Alerts if they want them. AMBER Alerts are the notifications of a child is abduction.

San Francisco News paper does not give up
Examiner.com has inked a deal with Foursquare to offer ratings and other things? on the 4Sq. Visitors who login to Foursquare will get access to content from all the Eexaminer news products.

Social Gaming Will Generate $1 Billion This Year
Social gaming is poised to become a billion-dollar industry this year, according to new research from eMarketer. Approximately 62 million American internet user will play at least one game on a social network on a monthly basis in 2011. I should had gone into gaming rather than web marketing I guess 😉

My theory is…Coming soon will be gaming advertising. It’s sort of happening already at the cooperate level (Coke, etc), but wouldn’t it be cool to have your company buildboard on turn 9 at XYZ race track on the next hot driving game? Or a spray paint (Viral marketing) of your logo on a wall on the next big shootem-up game?

Participation in Real-Time Social Media Increased 20% in 2010

According to Trendstream, users are increasingly engaging in real-time social media conversations via social networking and media web sites like Facebook and Twitter.

How much does really good SEO cost?

What does it cost to get great search engine optimization (SEO) work done these days?

KO Websites, the leading SEO Pros in the San Francisco Bay Area search engine marketing (SEM) industry charges about $750 to $4,300 per month for full service web management, on going re-designs, social marketing, outstanding organic SEO services and PPC campaign management. The price is based on competition, company web asset sizes and range of geographic marketing reach. The more local, the less the cost. The broader the market or the more competitive the key search terms, the more the cost. Continue reading

Social Media in Marketing

Social Media in Marketing- Why you need in.

The practical purpose of so-called “studies” touting statistics favorable to advertising, whether directly or indirectly, in social networks is little more than a marketing tool designed to obtain feedback, ideally in the form of sales.  Such reports however have a tendency to overemphasize what may in fact already be quite obvious to the savvy entrepreneur regardless their level of computer literacy. Continue reading

New Bay Area web designs for Oct 2010

New Bay Area web designs

New redesign for Karbon Home Theaters at: www.hometheaterbayarea.com This is just a small satellite website for a Bay Area Home Theater company by the name of Karbon Home theater. Their main site is undergoing some changes now and should be launched in two weeks, along with their new blog and SEO campaign. Continue reading