Category Archives: Advertising

Pinterest.Com Is The Next Big Thing!

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It’s Facebook!  It’s Stumbleupon!  It’s Flickr!  It’s WHAT IS HOT!

Two months ago I had not even heard about Pinterest.  Today I can’t turn-around without reading more about it and according to Alexa, (a decent barometer of website traffic) Pinterest is going through the roof!

The Pinterest terms don’t allow outright spamming and I doubt the spammers would be successful anyway because nobody would follow them – but if done properly Pinterest can be a good way to increase your brand recognition especially if your brand/product/website is visual in nature.

Don’t miss out on the next big thing, jump in before it’s too late!

 

Drupal: Integrating Your Site With Facebook

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After avoiding it for years, I’ve finally added some Facebook integration with the website. I don’t know why I avoided Facebook this long. I’m not sure if thought Facebook was just a ‘fad’ or I just didn’t think it would help in any way or maybe I thought that the integration would be too difficult. So far it turns out I was wrong on just about all counts.

It’s fairly easy to integrate things like Facebook “Like” buttons, “Facepiles”, etc. There are several Drupal Modules for Facebook to choose from. Which one you decide on depends on what you want to do, and compatibility with your existing modules – I started with the Facebook Social plugins integration module which is pretty simple to setup and gives you instructions for creating your Facebook App ID, etc. I had Facebook Social plugins up and running in just a few minutes – so much for being difficult.

It’s hardly been 48 hours since I built a “Facebook Page” for the website, and we’ve already gotten a few “likes”. Also, by adding the Facebook “Like” button to all of our pages I am now able to see how many times those pages had been ‘shared’ or “liked” over the years. I was shocked to see many pages that had been shared or liked hundreds of times! Facebook also has a great little analytics package called “Insights“, that once setup provides a webmaster with some startling demographics information about the people visiting your page.

 

Perhaps the most surprising of all are the results of the Facebook advertising campaign I setup. I was able to buy a CPM ad for only a few cents per 1,000 views. Even more surprising is that according to Adsense & Google Analytics, the CTR and earnings for visitors coming from Facebook is incredibility high! Man.. I was really wrong about that one..

As far as Facebook being a ‘fad’.. This is the one I was most wrong about. Over 600million Facebook members and still growing proves me more wrong every day!

If you haven’t setup a Facebook presence or at least tried/testing running a Facebook ad campaign I recommend you give it a try. You can see/follow/”Like” our new Facebook page (above) or my “public” Facebook profile (using my middle name instead of last name) here:

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Get On The First Human Billboard In Australia

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Steven Gaunt of Perth Australia has set his sights on becoming the very first human-billboard in Australia.  Steven and his boyhood dream of being a human billboard has already been featured in a West Australian newspaper (with circulation/readership of 500,000) and the newspaper plans to publish photos of the big event when it happens.  Whatever website or business is the first to get tattooed on Steven’s dot-com-virgin skin is sure to get a lot of exposure.

If you are interested in getting your website or company permanently (that means forever, Steven!) tattooed all over Steven, you can contact him directly to discuss pricing and body-part availability.

Steven’s email address is:  gauntsteven -at – yahoo.com

Tell him Rand sent you.

AOLNews.com Picks Up Our Tattoo Advertisement

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AOLNews.com posted an article featuring Billy The Billboard who you may remember is sporting a large GrownUpGeek.com Tattoo across his lower-back.

The article, posted 2 days ago generated a  huge surge in traffic which lasted about a day and has finally made the investment worth it.  They even posted the video of Billy getting the GrownUpGeek.com tattoo.

It’s an interesting story.  You can read it here.

Get Some Tattoo Advertising For Your Website

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Billy The Billboard, who did our newest GrownUpGeek.Com tattoo has just put www.BillyTheHumanBillboard.com online complete with contact information and tattoo pricing.   If you are looking a unique way to advertise your website you should check it out.  Take note in the information section that he is the subject of a movie documentary coming out next year that is sure to bring him a lot of attention & eyeballs on his tattoo advertisements.

In addition to BillyTheHumanBillboard.com you can also see him on Twitter, Facebook, and and CheckOutMyInk.Com.

Tattoo Advertising (video)

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I mentioned a while back in my post about more tattoo advertising that I would post some video of the tattoo as Billy The Billboard was getting it done.

I didn’t have a lot of video footage to work with, but I did finally manage to get a short video edited.

Hopefully as Billy gets more tattoos, and especially if he gets the world record he’s going after, the tattoo will get a lot more coverage.  At the very least I’ll have a walking billboard for another 30 or 40 years.