Creative Media Alliance

Facebook introduced a “Listen” button this week on band and artist pages. The Listen button allows you to listen to an artist’s music through whatever streaming app you most frequently employ. Click the Listen button on, say, Winger’s page and their music will stream for you, quickly and conveniently, on Spotify or MOG or a similar app.

It's Leap Day and Facebook is leaping forward with timeline for custom Facebook Business Pages! The social media giant unveiled the new Facebook Brand Page this morning. Advantages include...

Creative Media Alliance is one of Seattle’s top web design agencies. Check out the eye-catching new site we built for Quinn’s Pub. Quinn’s gastropub is a Seattle favorite and CMA Web Design Services fittingly built one of the best restaurant websites in the city. Over the past decade, we’ve worked with more than fifty local and national restaurants, including Tap House Grill, Oma Bap, and Mission Latin Restaurant. We are currently working on a new website design for Seattle's Restaurant Zoe, to be unveiled in February.

Is it enough to simply "talk" about your business on Facebook, Twitter, and other social channels? Stop the monolog and start a brand dialog with social listening and reputation management.

Discover a better understanding of your market by actively listening to potential customers, not just within your own social channels, but also on external channels that might not normally catch your attention. Creative Media Alliance offers 24/7 awareness of your brand-specific topics anywhere online.

Take a trip back in time. In fact, go Wayback. The Wayback Machine is an online index of past web pages. If you want to see your business website design, or another website, as it appeared in 2005, simply visit waybackmachine.org and search the desired URL.

Google Plus (aka G+ or Google+) is Google's most recent answer to Facebook. And, by all means, Google Plus appears better equipped than Google's previous efforts (i.e. Google Buzz, Orkut, Wave) to challenge Facebook's social networking reign. Google wants to strengthen its social identity because social networking platforms possess a more growable user-base than search engines. Social users also stay engaged longer, increasing advertising exposure. And Google would love to reclaim some of the advertising that has gravitated to Facebook in recent years.

As an Irish transplant, I'm well versed with the venerable history of the Seanchaí (Gaelic for storyteller) who was a fixture in Irish communities, and who's role it was to hand down local oral history from generation to generation.  These walking talking social hubs even predated the written word in ancient Celtic villages.  Their oral histories were memorized in long songlike poems and shared with all who would listen.

Keeping website content fresh and up to date is a vital component of a brand's web marketing program. Not only does this fundamental strategy provide website visitors with fresh, engaging content, but also stimulates and elevates your search ranking. Google, Yahoo and Bing all place an emphasis in their respective search algorithms on fresh website content. Websites that are frequently updated and maintained are more engaging and this is recognized and rewarded by the search giants. Websites that stagnate, sink to the bottom of search results.