August 2011

TM’s New CEO Revives the Agency

TM, a Dallas-based advertising agency, had been in something of a funk, having lost marquee clients like Nationwide and loosing their CEO, Tom Hansen, to wheeled-shoe company Heelys. In the spring of 2010, Becca Weigman took the reigns with a goal of turning around the shaky agency.

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August 2011

Recruiting with Riddles

Recruiting top talent is critical. As a digital agency, JDM is always on the lookout for talented developers and designers, but when we started looking into doing our own recruiting, the noise from applicants was deafening. Leave it to Google, to find a better way.

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August 2011

Google’s New Extended Sitelinks

Coveted by Webmasters the world over, Google’s Sitelinks have recently gotten a lot of attention. With the new, extended sitelinks, search engine results pages offer almost a full scroll to sitelinks. This has left SEO-ers and webmasters scrambling to find out how to get sitelinks on their site.

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August 2011

Do I need a CMS?

A common question we get from clients is do I need a content management solution (CMS) to help manage my corporate website? As a rule of thumb, we suggest any website that will likely receive more than 4 updates per month needs to be on some sort of CMS. However, it’s a little more complicated than just that. Let’s dive into the PROs and CONs of investing in a CMS for your corporate website.

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August 2011

WordPress and the Top 1MM Websites

According to Wordpress news’ “State of the Word”, Wordpress has grown to power 14.7% of the top 1 million world-wide websites, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running a WordPress CMS.

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August 2011

Google +1 Button SEO Data

On March 3th, Google launched “+1” as a way to challenge Facebook’s Cross-web “Like” button and how Bing has chosen to use Facebook “Likes” in their search results. The idea is pretty simple. Content recommended by friends and acquaintance is likely more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a Transformers movie review from an …

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August 2011

How much should a website cost?

Allow me to suspend my JDM bias for a moment and see if I can break down how websites are priced and why. The short answer is, you always get what you pay for, but let’s dig a little deeper than that cop-out.

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August 2011

Online PR Distribution Tools Review

A few of JDM PR’s favorites are listed below along with price ranges, pros & cons, and our recommendations.

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August 2011

Nielsen Makes Comeback with Facebook

The Nielsen Company, who provides the media/advertising industry benchmarks for what customers are watching and buying, is quickly becoming obsolete in a world of DVRs, online advertising and social media. But, a company that’s nearly 100 years old isn’t going down without a fight. Through heavily publicized innovation initiatives, Nielsen is making a comeback. Not least of their efforts is a new partnership with social networking giant, Facebook, to offer a new rating service for online advertising campaigns.

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August 2011

Function as Beautiful as Form

After some recent research, it comes to my attention that with all of the new innovations in website design, some designers still refuse to see the point of common best practices. You are not the first designer to want to put the navigation in the bottom corner in a circle configuration. Fight the urge.

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August 2011

Mobile Consumer Report Statistics

A new mobile consumer report by Experian Simmons, reveals some interesting information about what consumer habits influence mobile shopping trends and what marketers and eCommerce developers need to know to stay competitive.

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August 2011

How NOT to Choose a Digital Agency

I don’t know about you, but I often prefer to find out how NOT to do something than hear yet another recommendation. I’m sure you’re thinking we’re a bit bias (a post from a digital agency about how to choose a digital agency), but suspend your cynicism just long enough to read through a few …

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