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1. It’s Better Than E-mail Mailchimp may disagree, but I find Facebook to be easier and faster to market my products to customers and prospects. Additionally, Facebook hosts a forum for discussion that cannot be matched by email or any other platform for that matter. There’s also more information about customers who “like” than those [...]
As soon as we got an invite, our print company opened up a Pinterest account and thankfully so. Pinterest recently became our #10 referrer for web traffic. Likewise, many womens magazine websites and numerous enterprises are reporting Pinterest as a major traffic source larger than Yahoo and Facebook – combined. Don’t get me wrong, traffic [...]
This last week, Google announced they would be including Google+ information into Google’s search engine. Twitter went nuts and lawsuits are even springing up already! It hasn’t even been a week yet! So what’s going on here? Take a very close look at the below search of my print company, PrintKEG. Our actual website didn’t [...]
The first time I looked over Google Plus, I liked it and wanted to start a business page for PrintKEG. But at that time, Google recommended brands not to participate yet so we didn’t. Not to mention, Google already had a string of misfires including Google Buzz. Months passed by and Google was showing considerable [...]
Digital printing is becoming more and more popular and necessary to stay alive in today’s dwindling print market. Our online company, PrintKEG, relies on a few tools and applications that could prove useful in decisions you may make concerning your print shop or small business e-commerce website. We don’t include our actual production machinery or [...]
The last month and a half have been brutally slow for our small business. When these things happen, it can be easy to question everything you’re doing and start making rash decisions based on no data. The problem Gross revenue was way down so we tried offering more sales and discounts, review the competition more [...]
Today’s Google home page pays tribute to Louis Daguerre, the French physicist who invented daguerreotype, the first commercially successful form of photography. Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d’Oise, France. He apprenticed in architecture, theatre design, and panoramic painting with Pierre Prévost, the first French panorama painter. Exceedingly adept at his skill for theatrical illusion, he [...]
Big news in the technology world today. So Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility stating the combination will supercharge Android, enhance Competition, and offer wonderful user experiences. How will this affect Microsoft and will Microsoft eventually have to purchase Nokia? Here’s the press release: Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today [...]
The Droid 3 doesn’t have much to do with printing, but many of us printers love techy stuff right? I personally have the Droid, which I depise; its clunky, thick and awkward, but my son has the Droid 2 and he loves it. I still don’t feel like I would want the Droid 2 or [...]
Coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform, through which you can buy and read Google eBooks over Wi-Fi. The iriver Story HD, which retails for $139.99 [...]
Google on Wednesday began fixing a security flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones. The fix, which addresses a hole allowing hackers to access the contacts, calendars and photos on an Android phone connected to an open Wi-Fi network, will take a few days to cover every phone, a Google spokesman said. Unlike a [...]
Wow, Google advertised Chrome with a heartfelt commercial on American Idol tonight. The commercial titled “Google Chrome: It Gets Better” touched on acceptance, anti-bullying, gay rights, hope and more. I was touched and as a big fan of Google I wanted to pass on the hopeful message. Apparently, the commercial has been around awhile, but [...]
Many advertisers may not have been using keyword position preferences in Google Adwords, but our print company did. Unfortunately, Google informed customers by email that it is retiring the option. Here was the official email: Dear AdWords Advertiser, In early May, we’ll be retiring Position Preference, an AdWords bidding feature that you may be using [...]
Our online print company spends thousands of dollars each month on Google Ads. You can imagine the paranoia we experience as we proofread our ads. Mistakes such as misspellings in ads can lead to disastrous conversion results. Over a month ago, I noticed an ad in my Gmail account from a print company in our [...]
HP announced that Google Cloud Print users can print directly to any HP ePrint-enabled printer from any Google Cloud Print supported app on any computer or smartphone. HP’s portfolio of web-connected and cloud-aware printers for home and business are the first to support Google Cloud Print out of the box. The combination of Google Cloud [...]
When the long-anticipated BlackBerry tablet hits the U.S. and Canada April 19, Research in Motion (RIM) has a surprise up its sleeve: The Blackberry Playbook supports Android apps. The company announced today that in addition to its new native SDK, the BlackBerry PlayBook will support apps written for Android 2.3 and BlackBerry Java. RIM also [...]
Wow, I was excited about the release of the next generation Ipad, but I had no idea how huge this would be. Despite some minor technical improvements, the Ipad is still 66% faster and 33% thinner than the original. Thats pretty amazing. Is it that fancy new magnetic cover that has us all revved up? [...]
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite will support both Apple App Store Subscriptions and Google One Pass for magazine and newspaper publishers. Currently available as pre-release technology, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is already being used by leading global publishers to create and distribute their iconic titles on tablet devices. With 130 Adobe [...]
