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Articles by Allie Mims Archive

Articles and blog posts by Allie Mims, co-founder of Komodo Online Marketing.

New client website launched: GBS Commercial Cleaning

June 29, 2012 by Allie Mims

Komodo Online Marketing is pleased to announce the launch of our newest client website:

 

GBS Commercial Cleaning

 

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GBS Commercial Cleaning Homepage

 

The website was developed on the WordPress platform using the Genesis framework.

If you’re looking to spruce up your existing website or do a complete redesign, then fill out the form to the right to schedule a free 30 minute consultation to see how Komodo Online Marketing can help.

Are you using Twitter Lists to keep up with your franchisees?

November 6, 2009 by Allie Mims

twitter-logoTwitter Lists is a new feature Twitter recently rolled out that enables users to sort their favorite Twitter accounts into topically organized lists.  As a Twitter user you can create any type of list from funny people to motor-sports personalities and everything in between.

Lists add more value to the Twitter experience by allowing users to better organize information on Twitter.  A Twitter List is public by default (but you can make it private) and it is linked from your account (i.e. twitter.com/username/listname).  In this way, public Twitter Lists increase the discovery of unique and interesting Twitter accounts.

Big brands such as Whole Foods use lists to raise awareness of their individual stores’ Twitter accounts.  Whole Foods currently has 12 separate lists.  One list contains all the stores’ Twitter accounts and the rest are broken down into geographic regions.  This allows Twitter users to be able to quickly find Whole Foods stores’ accounts that are closest to them.  It also allows Whole Foods to be able to see whats going on with all its stores’ Twitter accounts with just a few clicks.  Franchisors can use lists in a similar fashion.

Why should I create a Franchisee Twitter List?

Creating a Twitter List of all your franchisees currently on Twitter enables you to:

  • Monitor each franchisee’s tweets to ensure that they maintaining a consistent brand message
  • Quickly spot and respond to an unhappy franchisee venting anger through Twitter
  • Drive your Twitter followers to your franchisees’ accounts to increase their reach within their local Twitter community
  • Ensure that all franchisee marketing and promotional tweets are in line with franchise policy

Once you create a list of your franchisees, you can see what all of them are up to with a single click.

How to create a Franchisee Twitter List

To create a list, click the “new list” link located in the sidebar of your twitter account.

Give the list a name, the name you choose will be the URL for the list (ex. twitter.com/alliemims/my-zees).  Then choose to make the list either public or private.  You can always change this later.  Then click Create list.

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Congratulations.  You created a Twitter List, now we need to add your franchisees.  If you only have a few franchisees currently using Twitter, then it may be easiest to simply enter their user-names in the search box.  Otherwise, click the “following” link to go to your follow page.

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From here you can add each franchisee to your new list with just a couple of clicks.

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To the right of each franchisee account you will see two drop-down buttons.  Click the list drop-down button and click the check box beside your franchisee list.  Viola! Now that franchisee is in your Twitter List.

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Now just repeat the process with the rest of your franchisees’ accounts and you will have a complete Franchisee Twitter List.  To access the list later, simply click on the list’s URL located in the sidebar of your Twitter account.

Take a look at the list I made of Abrakadoodle franchise Twitter accounts.

At this point I’d like to suggest that you periodically perform a search of Twitter to make sure that you are following all your franchisees as they join Twitter.  Start by clicking the “Find People” link and enter your brand name.  Click the follow button on each of the franchisee accounts that you aren’t currently following.

TweetBeep is a helpful tool, not only for finding franchisees, but also for finding Twitter users who are fans of your brand, product, or service.  TweetBeep allows you to keep track of conversations that mention your brand, your products, your services, anything, with hourly email updates.  You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL like bit.ly or is.gd.

I hope this post helps you with managing your brand image and presence on Twitter.  Do you use Lists in some other way to help market your franchise or small business on Twitter?  Please share with us in the comment section.

Roundup: Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

July 29, 2009 by Allie Mims

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Well the big news of the day has been the big Microsoft-Yahoo Search deal that was announced this morning.  All the search marketing blogs, tech blogs, news sites, and everyone else has been talking about it.  With the avalanche of deal information and opinion out there, we thought we’d wade through the content and post some links to the stories and posts we found to be the most interesting.

Before we get to the round-up list, let’s quickly go over the basics of the deal.

  • The term of the agreement is 10 years.
  • Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing Web search platforms;
  • Microsoft’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! sites. Yahoo! will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business such as enhancing display advertising technology;
  • Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Self-serve advertising for both companies will be fulfilled by Microsoft’s AdCenter platform, and prices for all search ads will continue to be set by AdCenter’s automated auction process;
  • Each company will maintain its own separate display advertising business and sales force;
  • Yahoo! will innovate and “own” the user experience on Yahoo! properties, including the user experience for search, even though it will be powered by Microsoft technology;
  • Microsoft will compensate Yahoo! through a revenue sharing agreement on traffic generated on Yahoo!’s network of both owned and operated (O&O) and affiliate sites;
  • Microsoft will pay traffic acquisition costs (TAC) to Yahoo! at an initial rate of 88 percent of search revenue generated on Yahoo!’s O&O sites during the first five years of the agreement; and
    • Yahoo! will continue to syndicate its existing search affiliate partnerships
    • Microsoft will guarantee Yahoo!’s O&O revenue per search (RPS) in each country for the first 18 months following initial implementation in that country;
  • At full implementation (expected to occur within 24 months following regulatory approval), Yahoo! estimates, based on current levels of revenue and current operating expenses, that this agreement will provide a benefit to annual GAAP operating income of approximately $500 million and capital expenditure savings of approximately $200 million. Yahoo! also estimates that this agreement will provide a benefit to annual operating cash flow of approximately $275 million; and
  • The agreement protects consumer privacy by limiting the data shared between the companies to the minimum necessary to operate and improve the combined search platform, and restricts the use of search data shared between the companies. The agreement maintains the industry-leading privacy practices that each company follows today.

It is important to note, that the integration of Bing and Yahoo core search could take up to 24 months to complete.  So this isn’t going to turn your SEO campaign on it’s head overnight, but it is important to keep tabs on the merger over the coming months and begin to develop a strategy to address the new, more important Bing search.

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal News Roundup

Microsoft press release: Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape

Yahoo! blog post: What our Microsoft deal means to you

Henry Blodget gives his first take on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal over at businessinsider.com

Rand Fishkin published a great post at SEOmoz about the Top 10 Things the Microsoft/Yahoo! Deal Changes for SEO

From TechCrunch:

  • Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Most Important Facts (And Some Opinion)
  • Bartz On Bing Search Deal: “Everyone Wants A Real Alternative.” (Live Notes)

Yahoo Search Powered By Microsoft Bing: What SEMs Need To Know from Search Engine Roundtable

It’s Finally Official, Microsoft & Yahoo Make A Deal, Yahoo Gives Up On Search from Search Engine Land

From Marketing Pilgrim:

  • It’s a Deal! Welcome bingahoo Into the Internet World
  • Microhoo Cares Already!

Feel free to add links to other interesting opinions about the deal in the comments section.

Komodo Links: Connecting with Customers, Great Company Blog, and EDU Blogs

April 18, 2008 by Allie Mims

Komodo Links is our only post for this week, but its full of quality links for any small business owner looking to grow their business online.

Nick Berliner posted five more solid tips to help you connect with local customers through your website. To read the first five tips, click here.

So what makes a great company blog? Check out Mack Collier’s series of posts at Search Engine Guide for some solid insight. All four are definitely worth reading. On a related note, we are in the process of overhauling and upgrading our blog. The final product won’t be ready for a few more weeks, but we’ll keep you posted.

ZDNet has an interesting post about a newly-launched site called blogs.pi.edu. For the low low price of $50, you can have your own blog with a .edu domain. This has bad idea written all over it.

Check out this clever graphic by Elliance. Search benefits of the Blogosphere….for song birds. 😉

Komodo Links: Widgets, Semantic Web, and Website Legal Liability

April 11, 2008 by Allie Mims

This week’s Komodo Links is all about variety. Everything from US law and websites to widgets and the semantic web. Check out the links and have a great weekend.

Greg Howlett wrote an interesting post over at Marketing Pilgrim about online retailer’s approach to social marketing and widgets. Take a look at the widgets we developed for Abrakadoodle.

Nick Berliner posted 5 tips for locally focused websites to connect to local customers. The five tips are basically 5 best practices that all locally focused websites should follow.

The CNET News Blog has a great post regarding some interesting legal cases and decisions that could have wide ranging affects on website operators’ broad legal shield from lawsuits.

“But a pair of recent rulings by federal district judges have chipped away at that protective shield. If those decisions are upheld on appeal, and if more judges follow suit, Web site operators and Internet service providers may find themselves compelled to police what their users post–or face the unsettling prospect of being held liable for the contents.”

The Economist has an informative article about some promising software services and initiatives to help online content publishers mark up their web pages for the semantic web.

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