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Building Local Visibility Online: Amadeus Consulting Discusses a Quick How-To

By Monica Valdez · 14 years ago

What is Local Visibility? Visibility helps you be found. Specifically, it makes you easily "findable" by those who are already interested in your products or services. Currently, there are billions of searches happening every month. ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses 2 Strategies for Building Local Visibility

By Monica Valdez · 14 years ago

Building Local Visibility Building local visibility can help in a number of ways. In general, visibility benefits companies by helping them become "findable." This means that people who are interested in your product or service ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses GPS: How the Layers Can Work for You

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

When our family goes on road trips, there is always a fight over who gets to control the map. Everyone has different motivations for wanting the map, between directions and how much long we have ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses Slates, Tablets, and E-Readers: A Preview for 2010 - Part 2

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

UX 10 by LG Features: Slightly smaller than some of the largest tablets, the LG UX 10 still sports a big 10.1 inch screen. This is perfect, since the UX 10 runs on Windows 7 ...

Slates, Tablets, and E-Readers: A Preview for 2010 - Part 1

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

We have previously covered a long list of potential iPad™ alternatives. Unfortunately, after we wrote the original article, most of the tablets covered were either cancelled, or delayed until further notice. Of the few that ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses: iPad Alternatives-Redux Part I

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

In a previous blog post, we covered a bunch of tablet alternatives to the iPad™. Unfortunately, shortly after writing the article, most of the tablets were either cancelled or delayed, so we wanted to follow-up ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses Using Twitter More Effectively

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

This article was originally written by Amadeus Consulting’s Todd McMurtrey as a guest article for The Modern Independent, a political insight blog focusing on national and Colorado politics. Although the original article focused on using ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses: What Ever Happened to Windows Phone 7?

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

Earlier this year, Microsoft® announced Windows® Phone 7 (initially called Windows Phone 7 Series), which will become its next offering in the mobile operating system market. In conjunction with the announcement, Amadeus Consulting also announced ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses The 3 Types of Commercial Intent in Keyword Research

By Monica Valdez · 14 years ago

When driving traffic to your site, one of the most important factors is targeting the people you want to use your services or products. The goal is to rank for keywords and phrases that people ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses The Value of Facebook for Marketing

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

Much has been written on the value of Facebook for marketing. Bloggers and marketing professionals have covered everything from "the value of listening and engaging," to "metrics and analytics." In summary, marketing on Facebook specifically, ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses: Customization vs. Configuration: What’s the Best Option for You? Part Two of Two

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

When determining the best fit for your company, the following questions can help pinpoint the important needs and lead you in the direction of either custom or configurable software. 1) Will The Software Do What ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses: Database, Date Security and Using Information

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

Building Better Security Fun Fact: In 2009 there were slightly over 5500 bank robberies in the US. Who would have guessed that so many people still robbed banks? Didn’t that mostly end with stage-coach hijackings ...

Amadeus Consulting Discusses: What Makes Software "Delicious"

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

Mmmm Brownies! The Pentagon’s recipe for baking brownies is 26 pages long and has been making its way around the Internet recently. The recipe is pretty simple, but it also covers almost every possible certification ...

Amadeus Consulting Takes Needle Point Stitches into Unfamiliar Territory

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

Many people believe that technology and the craft world do not go hand-in-hand, but they couldn’t be more wrong. In the advent of so many forms of technology, there are more ways than ever to ...

Amadeus Consulting Explains - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS – How does it all fit into the Cloud?

By John Basso · 14 years ago

Cloud Computing is a general concept that refers to leveraging services and custom applications on the Internet versus local computing resources (your own on-site server). The term Cloud is a reference to the network diagrams ...

Amadeus Consulting’s This Week in Technology – May 3rd, 2010: Twitter Revolution

By Monica Valdez · 14 years ago

Twitter™ is changing. Here is what is happening and what it means for Internet marketing and search visibility. Twitter launched in 2006 much to the speculation of many onlookers who doubted its usefulness and future ...

Amadeus Consulting’s Four Tips for Finding the Right Technology Platform

By John Basso · 14 years ago

Finding the right platform for your software project is just one of several similar challenges in business: finding the right market, the right way to market to customers, the right management strategy, etc. In this ...

Amadeus Consulting: Matching Software with the Right Technology Platform

By John Basso · 14 years ago

In the late 90’s and early 2000’s Amadeus Consulting was working to create custom software for some of the first consumer mobile devices. This was many years before the ubiquitous "app," and right at the ...

Location-Based Social Networks: Amadeus Consulting This Week in Technology

By Todd Mcmurtrey · 14 years ago

In last week’s edition of This Week in Technology, we briefly discussed location-based technologies such as Foursquare and Gowalla as a "foregone conclusion," meaning that everyone had already accepted it and that there really was ...

iPad Review: Your Laptop/Netbook is Going Extinct

By Josh Turpen · 14 years ago

I’ve never been a huge fan of Apple. As an engineer it bothered me that their products were always long on form and short on function. Secretly, I never thought I was cool enough to ...