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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>thevirtualhandshake - Latest Comments in Carnival of Marketing 1-22-2006</title><link>http://tvh.disqus.com/</link><description>The Virtual Handshake: Sell, Raise Capital, Look for Deals with Social Media</description><atom:link href="https://tvh.disqus.com/carnival_of_marketing_1_22_2006/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:49:44 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Carnival of Marketing 1-22-2006</title><link>http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/01/22/carnival-of-marketing-1-22-2006#comment-8723996</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Google was testing Pay Per Call..&lt;br&gt;Google Inc., one of the search engine giants in the industry, has begun its trial on a new service called pay-per-phone-call ads, a promising online ad model combined with the pay-per-click ads system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resource: &lt;a href="http://seo.xon.us/article.php?story=20051212205110408" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://seo.xon.us/article.php?story=20051212205110408"&gt;http://seo.xon.us/article.p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Lee Wong Seoul</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:49:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Carnival of Marketing 1-22-2006</title><link>http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/01/22/carnival-of-marketing-1-22-2006#comment-8723995</link><description>&lt;p&gt;News from &lt;a href="http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.millionairepixels.co.uk"&gt;www.millionairepixels.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;a Devon business with global ambition&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Date: Monday 16 January 2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Australia asks Devon Designer for Help&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Devon internet businessman and web designer Alan Wheeler has launched an innovative web advertising service which has already attracted an international company to sign up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bovey Tracey based Mr Wheeler has also been asked by Australian charity Hope for Children to help them design and set up a similar web-based advertising service.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His web-service &lt;a href="http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.millionairepixels.co.uk"&gt;www.millionairepixels.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;  enables businesses to buy a square of pixels, on the web page. Customers click on the coloured pixels and are immediately transported to the advertisers web site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With each block of 100 pixels costing just £60 (60p per unit) it is, believes Mr Wheeler, one of the best value advertising and promotion options for businesses of all sizes and a potentially valuable boost to tourism related services.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, in the longer term, advertisers could end up bidding for space on what is being described as internet real estate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr Wheeler, aged 42, said Its a quick and easy way for people to find a service or firm and it also gives competitive advantage to the businesses because, with the millions of web sites available, this will draw potential customers to them much more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Without a doubt there are people globally willing to pay for quite gimmicky advertising solutions. The internet is a fast moving place with over eight million web pages added on a daily basis. For a website to stand out and generate sales it needs to stand out from the rest, he added&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last autumn university student Alex Tew set up the Million Dollar site and since then has been overwhelmed by the success of a venture intended to raise enough money to pay for his way through university.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Alan Wheelers &lt;a href="http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.millionairepixels.co.uk"&gt;www.millionairepixels.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; is, he says, the next big step in the concept because, in effect, businesses are leasing virtual real estate on the web to promote their businesses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Launched just two weeks ago, &lt;a href="http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.millionairepixels.co.uk"&gt;www.millionairepixels.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;  has already won the backing of international business Optis Europe Ltd, an operations management company, which is using the site to promote its business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With more customers advertising it is, says Mr Wheeler, inevitable that like real property, some of the pixels on his site will become increasingly valuable for their owners as more business is generated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the last 1200 pixels, or advertising blocks, will eventually be auctioned off in support of the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital, said Mr Wheeler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ends&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Spider</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:33:38 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Carnival of Marketing 1-22-2006</title><link>http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2006/01/22/carnival-of-marketing-1-22-2006#comment-8723994</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the kind words and hosting this week's Carnival of Marketing!  It's a great carnival and I expect it will grow in popularity as more and more people learn of the quality posts submitted by all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks Again!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jim Logan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:30:41 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>