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World Cup 2010 Starts June 11th

By Damian Davila, on May 28th, 2010

Fútbol.

Futebol.

Football.

No matter what you call it: The biggest sports event in the world (besides the Olympics) is finally here.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process.

What are the implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup for online marketers?

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May 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Compete, Competitive Intelligence, Conversion, FIFA.com, Yahoo! | 7 comments

Worldwide Use of Twitter Stats

By Damian Davila, on April 8th, 2010

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.

The use of Twitter’s application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications  such as Tweetie often eclipses direct use of Twitter.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide.

Here are some stats on the use of Twitter worldwide and the implications of these stats to Twitter’s future.

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April 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Compete, Competitive Intelligence, Facebook Ads, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pages, Google Trends, Twitter, Viral marketing, facebook vs twitter, web analytics | 4 comments

Web Visitors Flock to Career Sites

By Damian Davila, on August 14th, 2009

For career sites, there’s no business like the recession business!

With the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting an over 9% unemployment rate in June 2009, it appears that job search sites will continue to show an accelerated growth during this economic recession.

On August 6th, 2009 eMarketer reported that more than [...]

August 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Compete, SEO, craiglist versus monster versus hotbjos versus careerbuilder versus indeed, craiglist vs monster vs hotjobs vs careerbuilder vs indeed, eMarketer | Leave a comment

Photo Sharing Websites

By Damian Davila, on May 29th, 2009

The top question that people ask me when people find out about my online marketing and web analytics blog, is how I came up with the name idaconcpts.  I really like words that are similarly written and understood in several languages, and ideas and concepts are two of them.  I played around with different [...]

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May 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Compete, Digital Mom, Flickr.com, Google Ad Planner, Google Trends, Marketing, Photobucket.com, Photography, Shutterfly.com, Slide.com, Snapfish.com, Sprout, X Flickr versus Snapfish versus Photobucket versus Slide versus Shutterfly, X Flickr vs Snapfish vs Photobucket vs Slide vs Shutterfly, how to guides, web analytics | 2 comments