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The All New Magazine Cover Stars | Advertising

Imagine a world without the most modern of modern western concepts- the marketable celebrity and the jaw-droppingly stunning model. How would advertisers cope?

[ More ] September 2nd, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Marketing Strategy |

10 Ways Blogging Can Boost Your Company Profile | Social Media

By Adrian Niculescu Once upon a time in a pixelated land far far away the only thing that mattered when it came to measuring hit success was the number of inbound links to your static website that would inform Google how relevant your content is.

[ More ] August 31st, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |

‘I poked your mum’: When the joke is no longer funny… to some people | Social Media

By Lisa J When someone says to you, ‘hey, I like your dress’ do you credit the designer and proceed to give the admirer a list of outlet stores complete with phone numbers, stockists and websites?

[ More ] August 26th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |

10 Key Methods for Good Web Brand Management | Social Media

By Adrian Niculescu A company in the online world should also reflect its capabilities in the offline world. However, if a company is mainly based online, then web image is a core element which will make a huge difference in whether the company will succeed or fail worse than an oil based fire suit.

[ More ] August 23rd, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |

Facebook Questions To Change Digital Marketing?

Facebook has an extraordinarily large audience- more than 500 million users to place it into some sort of context. But Mark Zuckerberg’s social media juggernaut is not resting on its laurels- they are turning to Crowdsourcing to improve user interaction.

[ More ] August 19th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Marketing Strategy |

Banking Web 2.0 – How the major card issuers look at the Social Media phenomenon

By Adrian Niculescu “We watched various brands and companies within our industry and elsewhere struggle, sometimes fail, to achieve their objective, which is always to get closer to the customer, to know more, to create a relationship” – Mike Boush, Vice President of E-Business, Discover Financial Services

[ More ] August 2nd, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |

Facebook: Feeding The Social Media Habits Of The Five Hundred (Million)

“Four hundred million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine registered Facebook users… 500 million!” Congratulations to Mark Zuckerberg

[ More ] July 29th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |

blurMarketing Presents… A Social Media Marketing Guru

We at blur Marketing are proud to present a woman who puts the ‘G’ into Geek. How so, we hear you defiantly ask? Well with a jammed packed CV that we couldn’t possibly detail on here, we will tell you this- she is a social media marketer based in Brighton who has freelanced for the BBC [...]

[ More ] July 26th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Crowd Interviews |

The Prince is Dead… Long Live The Gaga! | Social Media

By Lisa J So the artist Formerly known as Prince had a right royal tantrum two weeks ago by- wait for it – refusing to release any of his material online. Can someone please toss out the tumbleweed because I really can’t be bothered this time around.

[ More ] July 19th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media, Uncategorized |

So What Exactly IS the Beef With Online Dating?

By Lisa J Facebook users are just not happy with the online dating ads that seem to lurk in the background while they look at their homepage, update their profile, comment on status’/photographs and generally stalk members of the public.

[ More ] July 12th, 2010 | View Comments | Posted in Social Media |