We hope you have a great holiday and that you get everything you want, even if it’s only some time off. Next year some big things will start happening with us. We plan on blogging more regularly on a wider range of topics. Just think of all that free internet content…
Predictable? Maybe. Manipulative? Slightly. But I think you’d have a hard time finding someone who wasn’t a little bit moved by Ikea’s experiment.
The inventor of the black hole, the guy who figured out string theory. A brilliant professor who’s up there with Galileo, Newton and Einstein, thinks that the killer artificial intelligence might actually be a thing.
Sure you thought about your holiday marketing plan, but that was when “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” reminded you that the holidays were more than 7 weeks away.
Now there’s less than 2 weeks until Christmas and that holiday marketing strategy you thought about in November hasn’t really gotten off the ground.
… At least that’s what everyone from web designers to bloggers have been saying pretty much since 1997.
So you’ve just spent a ton of money redesigning your website and then suddenly your developer pipes up mentioning that you’re going to need a mobile website. One might as well have scaled up a mountain to find an identical but slightly larger mountain next. “Why bother if it’s basically the same thing? As long as the thing load up who cares?” Suddenly that mountain is now a tower in the clouds. “It’s not like anyone really uses their phone to do business, especially my business.” And up and up goes that summit—as well as the risk of torturing this metaphor. The point is you are going to miss on a lot of business if you don’t start paying attention to mobile traffic.
Yesterday, CBC published an article describing a married woman’s embarrassment after finding a dating profile had used her Facebook photo and postal code on the dating site Zoosk. And she isn’t the only one to accuse the site of creating profiles for users who didn’t sign up.
The holiday season is one of giving, and starting today, we will be running a social media campaign to benefit Basics for Babies!
From now until December 15, 2014, we will donate $1 to Basics for Babies for every new like or follow we receive on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.