Ownership Stake in Internet Marketing Company Further Expands Digital Service Offerings

NEW YORK – Global Advertising Strategies, an international full-service marketing and advertising firm, acquired a 41% stake in Blueliner Marketing LLC, an internet marketing company specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), digital advertising strategies, web analytics, email marketing, interactive PR, web design and web video production.
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Online Marketing Services Agency Becomes Part of Rjenda’s Development Team for the Launch of a Group-Oriented Social Networking Site

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Jivaldi, a full-service Internet marketing company, was chosen by ClubSquare.com, Inc., based on Jivaldi’s previous Web 2.0 development and startup experience, to help develop their new social networking site, Rjenda. With the power of existing social networks, Rjenda targets coordination of everyday activities for groups and friends – an area where other sites fall short.

Attention Soccer moms! Millions of busy individuals and families spend countless hours each week organizing and coordinating activities across their social, school, extra-curricular and professional groups. “We simplify this coordination both for organizers and participants and help connect people who share in these activities,” says Ranvir Wadera, Rjenda founder. “Rjenda provides a consolidated view of calendars and events, volunteer signups, news updates, and other communication across groups for each user, making it easy for a busy individual or family to stay on top of daily activities.”
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New Master Certificate Program Equips Professionals and Organizations With the Tools, Tactics and Best Practices of Integrated Online Marketing

TAMPA, Fla. – In today’s turbulent economy, companies require more accountability for marketing dollars than ever before – prompting a significant advertising shift from traditional media to an ever-evolving array of interactive strategies that offer immediate, quantifiable results. According to a recent study by marketing services firm Epsilon, 6 out of 10 Chief Marketing Officers plan to increase their spending on interactive marketing this year.1 Industry analysts support that move, with the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers noting the online ad sector is “poised to weather the [economic] storm perhaps better than other advertising sectors due to its cost-effectiveness and measurability.”2
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Online performance marketing firm sees trend to performance-based campaigns blending brand and direct response on search, display and social media

NEW YORK – Epic Advertising (www.epicadvertising.com), the privately-held, New York-based online performance marketing firm, announced strong 2008 results, posting core revenue gains of 29 percent over 2007. The company turned in a healthy 21 percent growth in Q4, accelerating to a 26 percent growth rate in December over the year ago period, in the midst of the starkly slowing overall economy and advertising marketplace. Profits increased apace with solid gains across key advertising categories. All growth came through ongoing operations, as the firm made no acquisitions during 2008.
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ArteWorks vFlood™ has been ranked the #1 Video Search Engine Optimization firm in the world by TopSEOs.com

AUSTIN, Texas – ArteWorks SEO at http://www.arteworks.biz has been recognized as the #1 Video Search Engine Optimization firm in the world. The SEO company rankings published by TopSEOs is the trusted guide used by those seeking the best in the internet marketing and search engine optimization industry.

ArteWorks SEO is included in this list for its consistent performance and the superior services rendered to its clients. TopSEOs performs an in depth evaluation of the leading search engine optimization firms in the industry to determine their rankings.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – BankCard USA, an industry-recognized credit card processing provider, partnered up with Sherman Oaks-based, pay-per-click advertising & click-fraud specialist, Connection Marketing, Inc. in a joint effort to reduce pay-per-click fraud against online advertisers.

Pay-per-click fraud, otherwise known as click-fraud, is an internet crime. It occurs anytime an individual, automated script, or computer program clicks on a business’s ad multiple times for the purpose of generating a charge per click. Click-fraud allows competitors to prevent their competition from making sales online, thereby significantly reducing a business’s profit and potentially running their competitors out of business altogether. Due to the competitiveness of the credit card processing industry, BankCard USA has experienced first-hand the financial impact of click-fraud.
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Affiliate Marketing Company Unveils the Next Generation of XML-Enabled Marketing Tools for Publishers That Embeds Shopping and Rate Comparison Intelligence into the Agent’s Distributed Web Sites Through Remote Content Delivery

DRAPER, Utah – Commission River Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BayHill Capital Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: BYHL), an Internet-enabled marketer of communications services and technology solutions, unveiled new affiliate marketing technology it calls ‘XML Plug-in‘ software. The code, which Commission River believes is the first of its kind and which it intends to make available to all its affiliate publishers, facilitates real-time content delivery to the user web sites in the form of rate comparison engines. Commission River unveiled the first seven rate comparison XML Plug-ins during a live web demonstration in front of a large number of its publishers.
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ArteWorks SEO Has Been Ranked the #1 SEO Site Audit Firm in the World by TopSEOs.com

AUSTIN, Texas – ArteWorks SEO at http://www.arteworks.biz has been recognized as the #1 provider of SEO site audits in the world. The SEO company rankings published by TopSEOs is the trusted guide used by those seeking the best in the internet marketing and search engine optimization industry.

ArteWorks SEO is included in this list for its consistent performance and the superior services rendered to its clients. TopSEOs performs an in depth evaluation of the leading search engine optimization firms in the industry to determine their rankings. Numerous criteria are considered and clients of ArteWorks SEO were asked to provide feedback on their overall experience with the company as part of the search engine optimization evaluation process.
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