Entries for April, 2010

The Importance of Social Media for SEO

No doubt social media has a large influence on SEO. For example, if you Google a brand, such as “Coca Cola”, you will find that more than half of the links are influenced by social media; from LinkedIn, to Google reviews, Twitter streams and even blog postings. Social media plays a large part in the [...]

Creating a Facebook style menu (The BAM Menu)

One of the questions we get most often about our website is, “How did you do your primary navigation menu?” (actually it’s normally worded more like, “I really like that menu thingy at the bottom of you web page. It’s like facebook! How’d you do that?”) You can see the navigation on our main site [...]

Tips to Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy

It can be very easy to get lost in the social media world. Jumping on the social networking bandwagon is very tempting, but don’t get in a rush to do so! Starting to tweet, post and blog without a well-defined strategy can leave you questioning your efforts. Before you start your journey into the social [...]

Technology and Effective Advertising Mediums

Being an interactive media company, an important part of all of our jobs here at Blind Acre Media is to stay on top of the latest breakthroughs and trends in technology.  Whether that be discovering a new software program that will increase operational efficiency/productivity, finding a new coding technique that will allow our clients’ websites [...]

Traditional Sales vs. Interactive Sales

Going once, going twice, SOLD! Many companies sell many different things throughout our world economy. I don’t think I had to tell many of you that. No matter where you look, there are items for sale. From your morning cup of coffee to buying your first house, someone is there to sell you. You may [...]

pro’ac·tiv’i·ty Acting in Advance

First, this is not a blog about acne treatment. And, unfortunately, Jessica Simpson is not endorsing this message. But, hopefully you’ll read on anyhow.
Recently, all us Bammers faced some difficult challenges. After many months of very hard work it came time to release a project “into the wild” so to speak, actually it was released [...]

Getting Paid to Socialize

You don’t need to be a tech head to make money on the internet anymore.  For years people young and old have been monetizing their YouTube accounts.  Making goofy videos that get millions of views and then charging big companies to advertise on their pages.  Monetizing content isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but [...]

Social Media: Helping Businesses Save Money

Small businesses all have the same problem these days.  How can they save more money?  Social media is one important way that businesses are saving money while still delivering value.
Whether being used for community building, customer service, product marketing, or staying organized and communicating as a team, one common theme can be found of the [...]