Thanksgiving at Customer Magnetism
Last week and this week, Customer Magnetism employees opened their hearts and wallets in support of a local organization personally donated over 500 items in support of the annual ForKids Thankgiving Drive. After the Grand Opening of the ForKids thrift store, called Good Mojo in Norfolk, VA, the ForKids organization rounded up thousands of items to provide over 300 local families…
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CM Cares: FAAN Walk 2011
On November 12, 2011 Customer Magnetism continued their charitable initiative to give back to the community with the Food, Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) walk at Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach. FAAN is a non-profit organization that provides awareness, education, and helpful resources for those who suffer from food allergies. CEO Kurt & Art It was a beautiful, mildly windy…
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Fresh from Google: The Freshness Update
“Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh.” – Amit Singhal, Google Fellow The folks over at Google make around five hundred changes to their algorithm every year. A lot of those changes go unnoticed by most, as they’re intended to just keep search…
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Halloween in the CM Office
It’s definitely Halloween here in the Customer Magnetism office. We’ve got a costume contest going on today with some great contenders and prizes! While outlaw zombies, post-apocalyptic fall-out gear, Nintendo characters, insurance mascots, and witches all make awesome costumes, there’s a whole array of perfectly office-appropriate costumes you can improvise with last minute. Link builder: A link builder’s job may…
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CM Joins JT Walk and Beach Party Fundraiser
We continued our CM Cares charitable initiative on Sunday, with the JT Walk and Beach Party to raise money for the National ALS Foundation. The JT Walk in Virginia Beach is the largest ALS walk in America. This year’s walk raised $1,177,374. In addition to raising money to find treatment and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s…
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New eMarketer Report Emphasizes Growth of Mobile Search, Video
Our friends over at Search Engine Watch just posted a great explanation of a new mobile spending analysis released by eMarketer. In short, it predicts that as U.S. smartphone ownership continues to grow (and it will), the emphasis on messaging as a main form of mobile advertising will decrease as the channel turns more and more to search ads and…
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Virginia Beach Rated #8 Best City in America (we are not surprised by this)
Yes, you read it right: according to Bloomberg Businessweek, Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been named to the list of America’s 50 Best Cities. We even made the Top 10, coming in at #8, although of course many of us who live here feel we should be #1! The rankings are based on 16 different criteria as diverse as air quality,…
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