Search Marketing on the Cheap

Social Ally

To those who don’t know yet… I’m currently connected with a Social Media Agency based in the US called Social Ally.  The company has put together a team of social media specialists who know exactly how to map your brand’s social graph, where to find the right conversations to listen to, how to mine that social media data for the actionable insights you need, and how to interpret that social media intelligence so it can be used in creative content that get results. We offer a social media outsourcing and support service.

On the 26th of June, Social Ally is sponsoring a webinar that focuses on setting up a successful online marketing strategy without breaking the bank.

Mike Moran

If you think that successful search marketing forces you to pay Google and the other search engines to send visitors to your site, think again. Learn the free techniques for search marketing that everyone with a Web site needs to know. You don’t need to be a technical guru or a star copywriter—what you really need is the right knowledge and a willingness to work. Don’t let the investment you’ve made in your Web site go to waste. With the right moves in search marketing, you’ll bring more traffic to your site than ever before, and you won’t pay the search engines a dime.

Skinflints now have a way to successfully market their wares without requiring huge budgets. In the past, consumer marketers needed to spend large amounts of advertising, or come up with more and more interesting public relations stories. B2B marketers had it even tougher, because their small markets often meant that advertising and PR were both foreclosed. Each step in organic search requires tools, but you can find good ones for free.

In this free 30-minute Biznology® Webinar, Mike Moran will show you the free tools and techniques that lead to success.  Search marketing doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg.

Special sponsored presentation by Brick Marketing, Marketing Pilgrim, Rimm-Kaufman Group, and Social Ally

Mike Moran is the Founder of the Biznology blog, a well-known expert in all things digital marketing, and Chief Strategist at Converseon, a leading social consultancy. Mike is the co-author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc., and the sole author of Do It Wrong Quickly. Mike is a veteran of IBM, managing groups in IBM.com for eight years, retiring from IBM in 2008 as a Distinguished Engineer.

You can register to the webinar by going here

The “Telenovela” that was Corona

Seal of the Senate from PH Yahoo News

The Impeachment court passed judgement yesterday leading to a GUILTY verdict against Chief Justice Corona.  With 20 Guilty and 3 Not Guilty vote on Article II of the impeachment complaint.  The Senate’s decision made Corona the first public official in the Philippines to be forced out of office by an impeachment court.

Senators Edgardo Angara, Alan Peter Cayateno, Pia Cayetano, Franklin Drilon, Francis Edcudero , Jinggoy Estrada, Teofisto Guingona III, Gringo Honasan, Panfilo Lacson, Lito Lapid, Loren Legarda, Sergio Osmeña, Francis Pangilinan, Aquilino Pimentel III, Ralph Recto, Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Vicente Sotto III, Antonio Trillanes IV, Manny Villar and Juan Ponce Enrile entered “guilty” votes.

Senators Joker Arroyo, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. voted to acquit Corona in Article 2.

Here are some of the memorable lines during the Corona Finale…

“This impeachment breaks new ground…I find the respondent guilty.” –Senator Edgardo Angara

Verdict: Not guilty. “This is not justice, political or legal. certainly not the law..it is only naked power, as it was in 1972.” –Senator Joker Arroyo

Verdict: Guilty. “Hindi ko po matanggap ang interpretasyon ng pinakamataas na hukom ng bansa.” –Senator Alan Peter Cayetano

Verdict: Guilty. “The failure to declare $2.4 million and P80 million is not minor.” –Sen. Pia Cayetano

Verdict: Not guilty. “Does SALN omission amount to an impeachable offense? NO! SALN carries light penalty, allows correction.” and added, as she addressed her colleagues ” I am insulted by the way your minds run.” –Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Verdict: Guilty. “He has lost his moral fitness as leader.” –Senator Franklin Drilon

Verdict: Guilty. “Ikinalulungkot ko na di ko po masasang-ayunan ang posisyong ito ni Chief Justice Corona. . Para sa akin, maliwanag ang mga batas natin at di ito nagbabanggaan. Ang pinagbabawalan ng FCDU law na mag-release ng impormasyon ukol sa dollar deposits ay ANG MGA BANKO AT DI ANG DEPOSITOR. ” –Senator Francis Escudero

Verdict: Guilty “I pray that as we conclude this defining moment, we can unite again as a nation, as a society.” –Senator Jinggoy Estrada

Verdict: Guilty. “”Ang nasasakdal na punong mahistrado ay hindi na, hindi na po karapat-dapat sa pagtitiwala ng sambayanang Pilipino.” –Senator TG Guingona

Verdict: Guilty. “He is no longer fit to preside in highest court in the land. May duda na sa kakayahan ng ating punong hukom. ” –Senator Gringo Honasan

Verdict: Guilty. “Guilty as charged under Art II on the Articles of impeachment.” –Senator Panfilo Lacson

Verdict: Guilty: “Sa akin ay malinaw na malinaw na si chief justice ay lumabag sa batas.” –Senator Lito Lapid

Verdict: Guilty. “My chief concern is the credibility and the trust of our people in the most important institution of the land.” –Senator Loren Legarda

Verdict: Not guilty. “When the furor has died down and this political storm has subsided, I know that like the lady Justice we shall find solace in the fact that this decision, though maybe not popular, was fair, impartial and just.” –Senator Bongbong Marcos

Verdict: Guilty. “There is more reason to apply the law when the assets in question amount to P180 million.” –Senator Sergio Osmena III

Verdict: Guilty. “The Chief Justice displayed a disturbing pattern of dishonesty.” –Senator Kiko Pangilinan

Verdict: Guilty. “Ang batas para kay Juan, ay batas rin para kay Renato.” –Senator Koko Pimentel

Verdict: Guilty. “It is easy to impeach one man. What is hard is to impeach hunger, joblessness, poverty.” –Senator Ralph Recto

Verdict: “Napakahirap man, alang-alang sa pagkakaisa at paghilom ng ating bayan. alang-alang sa pagpapatibay ng institusyon ng ating pamahalaan at nang darating pang henerasyon. I found Chief Justice Renato Corona guilty.” –Senator Bong Revilla

Verdict: Guilty. “Ang tunay na hukom sa paglilitis na ito ay ang taong bayan.” –Senator Tito Sotto

Verdict: Guilty. “From now on, no one is untouchable.” –Senator Antonio Trillanes

Verdict: Guilty –Senator Manuel Villar

“This court means serious business and would not succumb or to allow underhanded tactics and gimmickry to deter this court from our tasks.” –Senator Juan Ponce Enrile

Source: PH Yahoo News

Madonna Mashes ‘Born This Way’ With ‘Express Yourself’

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In a leaked video from Madonna’s May 27 tour rehearsal in Tel Aviv, Israel, the “Express Yourself” singer mashed up her classic hit with a cover of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” Watch below as she transitions seamlessly between the two similar tracks.

 

Madge has previously commented on Gaga’s song, which is often compared to the 1989 smash “Express Yourself,” in several interviews. After telling Newsweek  that it was a “wonderful way to redo” her own song and that she “recognized the chord changes,” she told ABC’s “20/20”  that “Born This Way” “felt reductive.”

“I certainly think [Gaga] references me a lot in her work,” Madonna said in the ABC interview. “And sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well-done. When I heard [‘Born This Way’] on the radio … I said, ‘that sounds very familiar.”

About a minute into the shaky video above, Madonna’s performance of “Express Yourself” becomes a cover of “Born This Way,” as she rehearses for her MDNA world tour, which kicks off May 31 in Tel Aviv and wraps at the end of December.

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks last year and has sold 3.7 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Madonna’s “Express Yourself” peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 1989. Released long before the age of digital downloading, of course, the song has sold 212,000 downloads since SoundScan began tracking download sales in 2003.

Source: Billboard