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Thanks to Dosh Dosh on twitter I found this ad talking about a Nissan Xterra for sale. This is an ad from Craigslist where some guy is trying to sell his Nissan Xterra SUV. In a market where SUV’s and fuel mileage are things to consider he chose to tell a story. I have a feeling that this picture will eventually make its rounds on the Internet bringing his story and ride to fame status online. I have no doubt he will sell it for asking price. Not to mention that he has now gotten more publicity for free than $1,000 worth of ads in the news paper would get. Click on the picture for the full version.

This is the forth day of a 30-day trial. Follow the link to Marketing Ideas En Masse to find out more.

Just when you thought someone would never compare Google Analytics to Star Trek, I found this. I would never consider myself a Trekkie, but this is a neat presentation. Information is key on the Internet, and the more you know the better you can market yourself or your product. Speaker Matt Bailey talks about gathering and analyzing that information through Google Analytics. Email subscribers can watch by clicking listen to marketers.

This is the forth day of a 30-day trial. Follow the link to Marketing Ideas En Masse to find out more.

By now, you are probably wonder where in the world am I coming up with all of these different topics and ideas. If not, I will tell you anyways. I set up a few different Google Alerts and have been digging through them for little gems of info to pass along.

I believe videos will continue to gain major ground as Internet speeds increase and more people figure out how to upload their videos easily to sites like YouTube. With that in mind, here is a good tip for marketing your videos:

The first thing that you have to determine is where you are going to post the videos that you are making for your products and services. Some different places that you can post your videos are on your blog, on your website, and on video hosting sites like YouTube.

The point is that you want to have as many people as possible look at your video. You can also ask your online friends if they are willing to post your video on their blogs. There are places that are going to bring more results than others, and it’s a good idea to research which places are going to be the best for the results that you want.

You can read the rest here at Articlebiz.com

This is the third day of a 30-day trial. Follow the link to Marketing Ideas En Masse to find out more.

Cell phones are a huge business to be in, and as technology improves the business will only get bigger and bigger. I am surprised some industrious people in big marketing companies haven’t figured out a way to give cell phones away for free. I mean all you would have to do is enable advertising on them so anytime they sent a text, surfed the web or received incoming calls there would be an ad attached to it. I am sure enough people would accept a phone under those conditions, and you could be cramming ads into everyone’s pocket. We would each have our very own mobile billboards. Webvideomarketing.tv talks about the bright future for cell phone videos and why you should get involved early.

In March, more than 91 million people — or 36 percent of all mobile phone subscribers — had video-capable phones. Subscriptions to mobile video plans grew to 13.9 million people this year, a growth of more than 5.5 million in just one year.

Additionally, 95 million mobile subscribers have Internet as part of their plans.

Mobile video subscribers averaged three hours and 15 minutes per month using their third screen in addition to more than 127 hours spent watching television.

As business owners develop marketing plans for 2009, don’t leave mobile marketing out of your advertising options — especially if your product appeals to consumers under age 25.

While mobile and Internet cannot be your only communication media, you cannot ignore the growing importance of digital and alternative delivery of advertising messages.

If someone creates a Hulu.com for cell phones they will be filthly rich in no time. Now if only I could get cell phone coverage while backpacking in the mountains. Then I could watch The Edge with ads starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin while sitting in my tent.

The last couple of days I have seen a huge flux of spam comments to our network, including a lot that are making it through. I am pretty sure I resolved the issues for the time being but still set all comments to be manually approved until I know for sure the spam won’t get through. What steps have you taken to prevent spam on your site? What programs or software do you use to block spam other than Akismet?