http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:02:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_261" align="aligncenter" width="156"][/caption] The funny looking box you see above is a not new technology; however the QR Code is pretty foreign to us in the U.S. QR stands for Quick Response. In the next decade, I believe QR codes will start popping up in U.S. media providing our culture ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2010/02/are-you-qrious/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-qrious Over the past couple of months there has been quite a bit of banter on the web about whether or not search engine optimization (SEO) will finally fall on its face in 2010. This has been a perennial argument for at least the past ten years, maybe longer. After all, ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2010/01/seo-will-not-die-in-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seo-will-not-die-in-2010 We are proud to announce our newest feature Block by Block reporting which is a part of RedZone, an internal and client facing reporting tool. RedZone allows advertisers to have increased insight into where their traffic is running by giving each client a login for their campaign reports; Block by ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/12/redzones-block-by-block-reporting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redzones-block-by-block-reporting We are proud to introduce Mobile Marketing Solutions as a new service in our RM Media 2009 product line-up. MAGNA research shows mobile advertising revenues to grow 36 percent to $229 million in 2009, and to $409 million in 2011 and that was an opportunity that we couldn’t pass up. SMS-based ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/10/mobile-madness-at-rm-media-the-launch-of-our-mobile-marketing-solutions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobile-madness-at-rm-media-the-launch-of-our-mobile-marketing-solutions We here at Red McCombs Media, "RM Media", which we are referred to due to legal reasons, are excited to announce that we have been acquired by LIN TV Corp (NYSE: TVL) this week! Who is LIN TV you ask? They're a local television and digital media company, headquartered in ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/10/red-mccombs-media-acquired-by-lin-tv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=red-mccombs-media-acquired-by-lin-tv Well, I am about to take the plunge into the world of smartphones. These hands were made to T9, but my thumbs are getting sore. After weeks of debating I have come to the conclusion that, to me, it is worth it. Worth the extra money I will have to ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/09/mobile-marketing-prowess/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobile-marketing-prowess Twitter has taken the world by storm. One of the things that I love about Twitter is that there are many variations on their bird icon, and yet when you see a blue bird on a website (and sometimes it isn't even blue) you know exactly what its referring to. ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/09/25-twitter-bird-icons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=25-twitter-bird-icons Austin,Texas – August 17, 2009 -- Inc. magazine announced Wednesday that  Red McCombs Media  is again among the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the nation. The list is a comprehensive look at America’s privately held companies and independent-minded entrepreneurs – the nation’s most important economic growth segment. This marks ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/08/inc-magazine-unveils-exclusive-list-of-america%e2%80%99s-fastest-growing-private-companies%e2%80%94the-inc-5000/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inc-magazine-unveils-exclusive-list-of-america%e2%80%99s-fastest-growing-private-companies%e2%80%94the-inc-5000 Here at Red McCombs Media, online advertising is central to our company. One of the things that has come up a handful of times in recent weeks is a discrepancy between the number of clicks being reported, and the number of visits being recorded by the client's analytics package. I ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/08/clicks-are-not-visits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clicks-are-not-visits I spent most of the last 12 months working in Ruby on Rails developing our internal and client facing reporting tool dubbed the Red Zone.  When I started here nearly 2 years ago, I was an experienced Java developer with some PHP under my belt--now I do nearly all of my ... http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/2009/07/in-the-redzone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-the-redzone