Amazon Microtargets Consumers – Money Back Kindles

by: George Bounacos January 21, 2010

Welcome to Big Thinking for Small Business. We hope you enjoy your visit. Consider staying awhile — maybe even taking a turn as a guest blogger. But tell us what you think!
This is how microtargeting works and why the best continue to earn great profits.
Amazon (AMZN) is that e-commerce company that continually [...]

Google Broadens Pay-Per-Call

by: George Bounacos January 6, 2010

This is a long time coming, and boy, is it big.  Yes, this is Google news related to telephones, but we won’t talk about Nexus One (still).
Google is launching pay-per-call advertising.  Now.
There have always been variants of pay-per-call available, but this shows how serious Google is about invading the local search advertising space.  The program, [...]

Google PageRank is Dead – Fast Friday Fact

by: George Bounacos October 16, 2009

Most people working in the online marketing world have known the truth about Google’s infamous PageRank scoring for several years:  it didn’t work, it wasn’t terribly accurate and attempting to classify the billions of pages on the web into 10 clusters was just plain silly.
PageRank was named after Larry Page, one of the two Google [...]

Today’s Search Word = Attribution

by: George Bounacos August 11, 2009

Marketers are still searching for which efforts created sales. That’s attribution. Today’s tools are infinitely better, but we’re not there yet.

Marketing Metaphors Become Cool, Not Cliche

by: George Bounacos April 16, 2009

Writers have often compared business and military, but the comparison between snipers and online marketing is interesting.

5 Ways To Generate Productivity on Pseudo-Holidays

by: George Bounacos December 23, 2008

What’s a pseudo-holiday? It’s that day before a holiday where no one wants to seem to work. Here are 5 important things you can be doing on slow days in the office.