Category Archives: Marketing

Twitter Enhanced Brand Pages Update

Last month Twitter announced the release of a simpler and faster version of its social network. As part of this release, they created a better destination for brands through enhanced profile pages, which they launched with a small number of advertisers, charities and individuals. Enhanced profile pages will be rolled out more broadly to all [...]

2012 Social Marketing & New Media Predictions

Awareness Networks released insights and prognosis from 34 business and marketing leaders as part of its 2012 Social Marketing and New Media Predictions report. Here are some of our favorites… Mobile as a game-changer: “The continued growth of mobile (smart phones as the primary device to access the web and use social) will totally change the [...]

Search Engine Strategies-Chicago: key takeaways

We were fortunate enough to attend Search Engine Strategies-Chicago (#SESCHI) last month and want to share some key takeaways from the event. SES has been around since 1999 and is one of the leading global event series targeting webmasters, digital agencies, and marketers, with a special focus on tactics and best practices. SES-Chicago is an [...]

ddm on Google+

ddm has joined Google+! Check us out at gplus.to/teamddm or visit our page by clicking the g+ icon at the bottom of this post. More on Google+ There’s been a lot of buzz about Google+ with the recent release of Brand Pages. Google launched the first iteration of its new Google+ Business Pages on November 7. The new [...]

Getting your Website to “go mobile” (part 1 of 2)

Today’s users are no longer bound to their desktop or laptop computers when looking for websites. The proliferation of smartphones is fuelling an ever-increasing base of users that are learning about you on a pocket-sized screen. Your website has three ways to deal with this: 1. Ignore them After all, modern phone browsers do a [...]

“Get Fit, Get Paid” – ddm’s fitness program winners take home the prize

ddm’s inaugural fitness incentive program, the “Get Fit, Get Paid” Challenge, was a resounding success. Spurred on by the creation of a ddm running club, the program was initiated to encourage team members to get healthy and stay in shape. Twenty-eight team members of the 40-person firm took part in this unique program over the [...]

Facebook changes again: What do you need to know?

Many people spent this weekend mulling Facebook‘s recent changes and, as usual, they did this in lots of places outside of Facebook. Facebook users took to the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook’s newest competitor, Google Plus, to work out the implications of the news. Among the top concerns: That “frictionless sharing” actually means spying by Facebook [...]

The value of QR codes

If you are one of those marketers who have embraced QR codes or are thinking about it or just curious to know the value of QR codes and their measurement then keep reading. We have had many recent internal discussions here at ddm on the value of QR codes and the best way to measure [...]

Key takeaways from the Social Media Success Summit 2011

SocialMediaExaminer’s Success Summit webinar series wrapped up last month and there was a ton of great information delivered by social media sages Mari Smith, Michael Stelzner, Jay Baer, Mario Zundar, Dan Zarrella and others.  Here are ten key takeaways from the series (in no particular order): LinkedIn is probably the best social site for B2B [...]

Can Google defeat Groupon?

We blogged last week about the pro’s and con’s of the Groupon “phenomen” including the pending launch of Google’s offerings: Wallet and Offers.  Google’s Eric Schmidt appeared on stage at the All Things Digital Conference yesterday to discuss the launch of these products in front of key influencers  and industry heavyweights from the Wall Street [...]