Social media has taken the marketing world by storm with sites like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc. An old faithful friend of marketing is a contest. Online contests are a great way to gather information from the people who are visiting your website. From one of my Twitter Followers, I learned about a contest yesterday that has these two worlds colliding. If you Twitter, then you can enter this contest to win a variety of prizes, which are drawn on a weekly basis. In order to be entered for the drawings, you have to Twitter about the contest. For an added…
SixApart, the company that brought you the Movable Type and Typepad blog platforms recently expanded its suite of services to include design, development and advertising.
SixApart just purchased NYC-based social media design agency Apperceptive to handle custom design and development for major brands and the most influential bloggers. They have also created an advertising network to serve bloggers who use their platform. “On April 21, we launched an innovative advertising program that gives bloggers another way to optimize their blog efforts and make more money,” said SixApart in a email sent yesterday.
SixApart’s reason for expanding its services are based on the needs of its user-community… “As your needs…
