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Finally common sense applied to stores online

For years, product marketers have purchased premium positions (product placement) on shelves’ stores, but with 80% of purchases beginning on the web, better visibility has become an increasing competitive market. As it happens in brick and mortar stores, online the product placement plays an important role, usually the products at the top of a category sell better than those placed at the bottom. Now thanks to Searchandise, marketers can bit in online retailer stores to get higher positions, highest bids achieve these positions at the top in categories, ecommerce search results, feature and related items.
More than a great idea, this is common sense finally well applied. Seachandise just raised $7 million from Madrona Venture Group and others securing for now the leadership in this niche market. I think this is a great fit for a company like Google, it a pretty neat business model, not intrusive and smart, just what Google likes… so Larry, Sergey and Eric… please take a look to these guys… ;-)
This article has been written by Libardo Lambrano, founder of Syndikomm; an online marketing firm based in New York city and specialized in multicultural markets. Libardo Lambrano, a digital citizen of the world can be reached@llambrano

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What a great viral marketing campaign can do…

I didn’t know about Patrick Jean or One More Production until today. I got an email early in the morning from Stumbleupon where they were recommending this video called “pixels” directed by Patrick Jean and executed by One More Production. I went to see the video and I have to day is one of the best short films I have ever seen, very creative and very well executed; I love it even more because it was shoot in New York, the city that I love and where I live since 1999. This video is a great example of how a successful campaign can not just drive traffic to a site but get you real businesses. In less than 24 hours of being release the video got 1 million viewers, so far, just days after the video has been published on Daily Motion (04-07-2010) seen more than 2 million times, it has been featured in many sites such as motionographer.com and many more. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts the power on viral campaigns is incredible, as David Skok has demonstrated a successful viral campaign with a short cycle time (like this video) can reach 30.000.000 in 20 days. I’m sure this video will become one of those phenomenons, and will represent Patrick Jean and his company years of new business, investment in creativity pays off. See the video below and judge for yourself.


PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Independent web videos.

This article has been written by Libardo Lambrano, founder of Syndikomm; an online marketing firm based in New York city and specialized in multicultural markets. Libardo Lambrano, a digital citizen of the world can be reached@llambrano

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The Venator Partners Newsletter, a great overview of what is happening on the Internet and tech industry.

The Venator Partners Newsletter is one of the best free information available on fundings, IPO’s, merger and acquisitions and executive moves on the fields of software, internet, digital media, government, clean tech and telecom.

I found out about this newsletter when I read the book “Inbound Marketing” by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah; on the book they referred to this newsletter  as one of the best nurturing emails you can ever get. I have to say they were completely right. I subscribed to this newsletter and every week I get the latest updates of what is happening on the Internet and tech industry.

On the newsletter they provide a brief description of the companies involved on the transactions, along with a direct link to their websites, some of the fundings and acquisitions included really interesting companies with great ideas that inspire me every Monday when I get the newsletter.

Before getting this newsletter I never imagined the kind of activity of this industry, the newsletter has also allowed me to discover great investors and VC’s that focused on particular vertical industries. I think the Venator Partners newsletter is a must subscription for all entrepreneurs and executives on this field.

This article has been written by Libardo Lambrano, founder of Syndikomm; an online marketing firm based in New York city and specialized in multicultural markets. Libardo Lambrano, a digital citizen of the world can be reached@llambrano

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