Insights by Justin Downey

October 2011

JDM & Google Engage for Agencies

JDM is proud to announce that we’ve recently applied, gotten approved and certified as a Google Engage for Agencies partner. With our certification, we have access to slews of Adwords discount coupons we’re ready to pass onto clients looking to get their feet wet in the world of Pay-Per-Click.

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October 2011

Netflix Says No More Qwikster

In a member email sent today, Netflix says goodbye to Qwikster: one website, one account, one password.

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October 2011

TAI Celebrates 10th Anniversary

On Friday, October 21st the Temerlin Advertising Institute at SMU will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary and as an alum myself, I couldn’t be more proud of how the program continues to dominate.

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October 2011

Google: The Relationship Algorithm

Often I find myself explaining SEO and ‘visibility’ to clients in terms of a relationship. It’s a pretty useful analogy, so I thought I’d share it. Feel free to take credit for it if you like. We won’t tell. Google Is My “Other Girlfriend” I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m in a relationship …

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October 2011

Hide the WordPress Update Nag

Sometimes in developing themes and really cool functionality for clients’ Wordpress websites you’ll find yourself in a situation where updating Wordpress automatically is a REALLY bad idea. Maybe you toss and turn at night just thinking about what would happen if they click that little upgrade nag link at the top and it takes the whole site down–for hours. Chill. Here are two ways to hide the Wordpress update nag.

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September 2011

QR Codes Gone Too Far?

QR Codes, or quick response codes are a type of 2D bar code used by smart phones to scan and pull up a coded web address. In recent months, perhaps QR codes have gone too far… Let’s crack the QR code. These special bar codes can be scanned by any smart phone with a camera, …

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September 2011

Apple’s New CEO to Demo iPhone5

According to AllThingsD, Tuesday, Oct. 4th will be the day Apple will unveil the next iteration of the iPhone and who better to make the introduction to the world than their new CEO, Tim Cook.

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September 2011

Glam (Media) Buys Ning (Social)

Vertical media company, Glam Media, is acquiring Ning, the world’s largest platform for building white-labeled social networking sites, to diversify Glam’s revenue portfolio.

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September 2011

NoFollow Links Ruin PR for SEO

Things they are ‘a chang’n–particularly when it comes to using online press releases as an off-page SEO strategy. Looking at the metrics across the board online PR just isn’t generating the inbound links it once did. Could it be because of something called “nofollow links” and “pagerank bleed”? You bet!

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September 2011

New Digital Agency Model

Although the technology is nothing particularly new, the new Modular Digital Agency model addresses the specific needs of small businesses like never before. Industry experts see it as a step in the right direction.

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September 2011

HRmarketer’s 10th Anniversary

HRmarketer, the most widely used online marketing and PR service in the human resource marketplace, is celebrating their 10th year in business this October at the 14th annual HR Technology conference with a drawing to win one of two iPad 2s.

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September 2011

GoToMeeting Goes Mobile

GoToMeeting is a web-meeting service that allows unlimited online meetings for up to 15 people for about $50/month. Recently, GoToMeeting has gone mobile publishing two mobile apps (one for Android and one for Apple’s iOS for iPhone). What do the nerds at JDM think? Read on.

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