How ReTargeter Uses Flowtown To Generate Press And Leads

This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight an individual Flowtown customer, their business and how they effectively use Flowtown. If you’re a Flowtown customer and would like to be featured please send an email to francine (at) flowtown.com. When people arrive at your site and don’t sign up, is there anything you can do about…

The hipster lifestyle is loosely based around the search for irony (whatever that really means). But hipsters can’t be expected to mock traditional culture and stay on top of pop ‘indy’ culture, all on their lonesome. That’s why the iPhone is a hipster’s golden ticket to hipster glory. And perhaps not surprisingly, there are many apps that form the bedrock…

Social network ad spending is one again on the rise, argues a recent study by eMarketer, which predicts that US advertisers will spend nearly $1.7 billion on social sites this yea.  This estimate is a noticeable increase from initial 2010 projection made by eMarketer, which forecasted $1.3B for this year, as well as a 20% increase from 2009 spending. Of…

The world of social media is abuzz with catch phrases and proprietary terms that can make newcomers feel like they are visiting a foreign country. Learn to speak the language however, and you will earn respect and credibility amongst your peers (or you will hear them making fun of you for using too much jargon when they think they hung…

U.S. broadband use has increased dramatically in the last several years, a fact that should come as no surprise. As the infrastructure has become more developed and the prices have become more affordable, more people than ever are valuing high-speed Internet access. The graphic below illustrates the findings of a recent Pew study, which identifies recent trends in broadband adoption…

He is the greatest CIA agent that the CIA ever had, a decorated Vietnam war veteran, and he’s super bad. He’s a master of Kung Fu, an active revolutionary, and he will not hesitate to waste a fool. He is Black Dynamite – righteous defender of justice and children. Black Dynamite’s 2009 movie, “Black Dynamite,” follows the “veritable one-man-army” on…

In April 2010, eROI conducted a study of more than 500 marketers. The focus of the survey was two-fold: to determine the impact of mobile marketing in email and web marketing programs; and, identifying the importance and impact of social networks in relation to their email and web marketing efforts. The end result, according to eROI, was a better understanding…

Foursquare is one of the fastest growing social communities on the Internet. In fact, BusinessInsider.com recently reported that the service is now receiving 600,000 check-ins per day. Businesses are surely loving the attention and new customers that Foursquare brings, and users love nothing more than winning the top honor for any establishment – the badge of the Mayor. Mayors get…

Okay, so you’ve got a blog and you need to build an audience, but you can’t expect to just publish away and watch the traffic roll in. In many cases, you are just one of 64 tabs your visitors have open in Firefox and you have to grab them quickly before their laptops crash or they move back to Gmail…

As a tribute to XKCD‘s ‘Map of Online Communities’, we have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community: