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Social Media is Growing Fast, Dont get left Behind Houston

February 20, 2012 Latest News 0 Comment

Social Media Marketing Enters The B2B Marketing Mix By: Forbes Lopez Research in conjunction with The Software Industry Association (SIIA) recently surveyed 106 marketing executives about their company’s use of email, mobile marketing and social media to build their brand, gain leads, and improve customer support. The findings were quite interesting. While ...

SOPA Bill Trying to Censor Internet

January 19, 2012 Latest News 0 Comment

The House of Representative's Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate's Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act have generated fierce opposition within the technology community. Here are some facts about the bills: What would SOPA and PIPA do? The legislation, known as SOPA in the ...

Hackers Creating Own Internet

January 4, 2012 Latest News 0 Comment

Hackers to launch pirate satellite to help build pirate Internet Hacker-sponsored satellite project aims to prove free speech is as valuable as cell spectrum By Kevin Fogarty January 03, 2012, 4:31 PM — Driven reportedly more by the effort of entertainment companies to police their content and punish those ...

Advertising with QR Codes

June 22, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

QR codes have stormed traditional advertising and it will never look the same, literally. Innovation surged this year in mobile marketing with huge breakthroughs coming in the QR code advertising sector. To put it mildly, QR codes are blowin' up! The opportunities to augment and track ‘old’ traditional print ...

Google creates competition for Groupon

June 6, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

Google Offers, the company’s long-awaited response to Groupon, has gone live with a signup for beta program in Portland, Oregon. Google promises “50% off or more at places you’ll love,” on a sign up page and offers six locations — Portland; California’s Oakland/East Bay and San Francisco: and New York ...

Importance of LOCAL SEO

March 28, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

Local SEO If you are a business owner and are already doing a advertising campaign on the Internet or are about to begin one, then a concept you should learn more about is local SEO. Search engine optimization is a very popular concept of internet marketing but most marketers do not ...

Why your Business has to have a Facebook Fan Page

February 9, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

Regardless of what your business engages in, either a service or product, it’s a great idea to have an established Facebook fan page. It all starts with how YOU network through Facebook. Why is having a Facebook fan page important? I’d say at this point, you should ...

7 Social Media Metrics to Align with Business Goals

January 23, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

In a presentation I gave last week about building your social media strategy, I laid out five key takeaways that a small business owner or marketing manager can follow when design their own social media strategy. The five key takeways are: Create clear goals for social media activity driven by business objectives Identify ...

How to Increase the Number of Leads from your Website

January 23, 2011 Latest News 0 Comment

For most companies, the primary purpose of their website is to have an online presence  where they can provide people information about the company, the products and services, the management team, and a list of clients.  While this information is useful from a purely information gathering perspective, it's generally not enough ...

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Houston Online Solutions realizes that small businesses know they need to be online, but don't always have the time or resources to focus on local internet marketing. That's why we started Houston Online Solutions.  We see too many ... Read More »