Loud Interactive Blog

This past Tuesday evening, our CEO Brent  Payne was a featured speaker at Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, an intimate monthly event series featuring various business leaders from the Chicago area. Tuesday’s topic was ‘Secrets of SEO for Startups’ and also featured two local SEO veterans – Dan Olson, CEO of UpCity (formerly DIYSEO), and Rod Holmes, Partner at Chicago Style SEO.

A great crowd had assembled at the Chopin Theatre for the event, and attendees ranged in roles from developers to designers, and even a couple of attorneys. Each presenter offered unique stories of their road to entrepreneurship along with some best practices and tips for what’s important to know about SEO as a business owner. (more…)

Google Glass will be released to the public in 2014 and has already been slated to be the “must-have” gadget of the year. In anticipation that Google Glass could become popular, Loud Interactive has broken down some of the implications the product may have on SEO and social media. (more…)

A new form of social media communication is taking the mobile world by storm: SnapChat. SnapChat allows users to send their friends short videos or images, or “snaps,” that last anywhere between one and ten seconds before deleting themselves. The application has increased over threefold in 2013 with 150 million images being processed per day. With Instagram users posting about 40 million photos per day, SnapChat is becoming one of the most prominent photo-sharing networks in the mobile market. (more…)

Images are an important part of website development and social media strategy. Visual media is appealing and easy on the eyes, and social media posts that have images receive more shares and links than those without images. Social media networks like Facebook and Pinterest rely on image based posts and apps like Instagram have expedited the process. Now is the time to create shareable images to make your brand’s popularity soar!

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Recent stats show that cell phones- especially smart phones- are increasing in number rapidly. Of the 93% of Americans owning cell phones, 50% own ‘smart’ phones. That number is expected to rise as almost all of the Gen Y generation (those between the ages of 24-32) ages, own mobile phones and an impressive 72% own smart phones. (more…)