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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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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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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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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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JDM’s First WordPress Plugin

Ever print a web page out and it’s just about unreadable? Lord knows we have. Partly out of frustration the JDM Labs team has just completed their first (albeit simple) Wordpress plugin available for free download.

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Netflix CEO Apologizes, Rebrands and Stock Soars

Netflix CEO apologizes for new pricing model after the stock plummeted. Then rebrands the DVD-by-mail services as “Qwikster,” keeping streaming rentals under the name, “Netflix.” Stock soars almost 4% overnight!

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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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Social Media is a Creepy Business!

Every website, every magazine, every newspaper, every TV channel you’ve ever seen has the same business model: package a demographic and sell it to advertisers. With the overwhelming use of modern social networking sites, like Facebook, one has to ask: “What’s their business model?” The answer is simple – it’s the same media model. Organizations …

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HLP Solutions Awards JDM Digital AoR

HLP Solutions, a Dallas-based, Top 20 National Recruiting & Staffing firm, has just awarded JDM Digital Agency of Record. Some of the first deliverables on deck include a full-website re-development, collateral redesign and new messaging. The JDM team gears up.

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SEO Best Practices for Ethical Beginners

There are a few best practices to ethical SEO every webmaster should know. What astounds me is how many are overlooked or deprioritized. So, here’s JDM’s top five ethical SEO best practices every webmaster needs to know and love. 01. It Matters Who You Hang Out With Believe it or not, it matters who you …

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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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The “Counter-Slander” Campaign

Heard about BMW’s “Marketing Ambush?” In Santa Monica, California, Audi posted a billboard advertising their new car as a direct competitor to BMW’s. The billboard sported the smug headline: “Your Move BMW.” How did BMW respond? A “Counter-Slander” campaign.

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