Ah, YouTube. You never know what you’re going to find! This week I discovered a little treasure from the 60′s featuring my boy Leonard, the original Spock. Everyone is aware of Captain Kirk’s vocal abilities, but Spock released a few albums as well. Take a break and watch Leonard sing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins on the 60′s variety show Malibu U.
Now onto the stuff you were really looking for, here’s what the team’s been reading this week.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on the EMP blog. I’ve been busy catching up on episodes of Shark Tank and counting down to the release of Star Trek Into the Darkness. If you don’t remember who I am, I’m Max Speed, the guy on the Pole Position Marketing team who says things other team members wouldn’t dare say. Maybe that’s why they haven’t let me post for awhile?
While the rest of the team would like me to share some web marketing news, I’d like to share something from the final frontier… space. If you haven’t checked it out yet, go visit Timelapse and view timelapse videos of anyplace on Earth created from nearly three decades of images collected by NASA’s Landsat in collaboration with Google and Time.
Here’s what the rest of the team has been reading…
Here in Ohio, we’ve had a nice week of sunny weather in the mid-70′s, and it’s amazing how a week of sunshine makes you feel! It’s made us feel so good, that part of the crew has made a resolution to start working off that winter weight with an afternoon plank break. I’m realizing just how out-of-shape I am! After the planks, it’s back to the desk to catch our breath and catch up on the latest happenings in the web marketing world. Here’s a sampling of what the crew has been reading this week.
When managing PPC campaigns (or any marketing campaigns for that matter), analyzing, testing and adjusting given information about your competitors can be extremely helpful and necessary. Knowing what they may be doing better and/or what you may be doing better, when they’re spending their money, what’s working and not working for them, etc. can give you strategic advantages that can help you make profitable adjustments.
There’s always music playing in our office, and you never know what you’re going to hear. It could be a hair band from the ’80s, or you might hear Cher reminding you to “believe in life after love.” If you’re someone who likes to share what you’re listening to, you’re going to love this announcement about Twitter’s foray into the music sharing biz. According to this post on Wired, Twitter is set to launch a stand-alone music app that will allow users to find new music based on what their friends are listening to. Tweet away those playlists! Even when we’re not listening to music, we still like to share—great articles on SEO, link building and content creation.
Spring has been rather elusive in our neck of the woods. Actually, downright spiteful with temperatures coming in right around freezing–until today. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and we’re decidedly more cheerful. While we had to wait what seemed like an eternity for warmer temperatures, we don’t want to make you wait for some great reads about link building, analytics and content creation.
From Google’s announcement that it will close Google Reader in July—some people aren’t too happy—to nifty ways to optimize a PDF for search, we’ve read some great articles this week on analytics, SEO, link building and content marketing. Oh, and don’t be creepy when you network on social media channels.
We were really excited when Disney bought Lucasfilm and along with it the Star Wars franchise—Episodes VII, VIII and IX!—but were confused with seemingly conflicting reports this week. In an article by the Huffington Post, George Lucas revealed that Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were pretty much a done deal for Episode VII. Carrie Fisher even seemed to confirm it, but alas, this report says she was only joking. The changes coming to Facebook though are no joke. And that’s not all we’ve been reading about this week.
From good SEO practices to determining ROI for link building, we’ve scoured the Internet to bring you some great articles to help you with your online marketing efforts. We like to read and we like to share—we’re just nice that way.
We felt the chill as a blizzard slammed the New England states this past weekend, we were shocked when Olympic hero Oscar Pistorius was charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and we wondered if aliens really were invading as pictures emerged today of a 10-ton meteor speeding through the Russian sky, creating a sonic shockwave that injured more than 1,000 people. We thought it best to stay holed up in our office finding great PPC and link-building articles to share with you.
