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True business wisdom transcends time

Expert advice on building a successful company I recently downsized to a different office within our building and in doing so I was forced to sort through and get rid of a lot of “stuff” that had accumulated over the years. Buried within my many stacks and folders, I found a goldmine: ...Continue Reading

How Many Licks Does It Take

Remember the commercial back in the 70’s for Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pops that showcased an Owl demonstrating to a boy how may licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop? He takes 3 licks then impatiently crunches down on the pop to get to the Tootsie center goodness… That commercial...Continue Reading

Whats keeping you from being a rockstar on Twitter

One Word… Excuses. (Insert laundry list of “reasons why twitter won’t work for my business” here.) We all make excuses for the things we don’t want to do. We justify not doing things that are hard or require us to give something of ourselves so that we can instead do the...Continue Reading

The Latest on Google’s Latest Search Tweak

Last week, search engine giant Google released a new algorithm designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites, while at the same time, helping high-quality sites receive higher rankings. The change is expected to impacts an estimated 12% of all search queries to Google, and thus has a significant...Continue Reading

And the winner is…

Happy Friday! It’s been a great week here at Red Clay Interactive with a lot of great stuff going on. We’ve gotten a few new awesome clients and I’m excited about all of the great stuff that we’re doing for them. I wanted to write a simple post today about two websites. I’ve...Continue Reading

How to track QR codes in Google Analytics

So you want to use QR codes but you’re not sure how to track them in Google Analytics. There are four steps to getting the URLs ready and generating the QR codes that will be ready for tracking using Google Analytics campaign tracking. Plan your campaign Use Google Campaign Builder to build unique...Continue Reading

Microsoft to change adCenter trademark guidelines

For those of you using Microsoft adCenter, we received a notice this morning that they would be changing their Intellectual Property Guidelines to no longer review trademark keyword complaints. They will continue to investigated brand owner complaints related to trademark use in ad text. What does this...Continue Reading

Whats new with Facebook Fan Pages

Facebook Pages are changing yet again. It seems that whenever profiles change pages aren’t far behind. In March 2011 all pages will be changed to the new version. For now you can opt into the upgrade or wait to be upgraded automatically. Be forewarned, there is no going back to the old version...Continue Reading

The Next Business Social Network

On Tuesday of this week, I had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Sasser with Company.com (great domain name by the way). Company.com is a new venture attempting to create the next great social network for businesses. It allows companies to post information about their products and services, coupons...Continue Reading

We are Unreasonable!

A recent post by Seth Godin celebrates being unreasonable. Sometimes what is right is not right on paper. Sometimes it requires you to go against conventional wisdom. Sometimes we all must be unreasonable. At Red Clay we are unreasonable. It is unreasonable to give a client a partial refund at...Continue Reading

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About Red Clay

Red Clay isn't a traditional agency. Our folks don't fit that mold, and we aren't big on conforming. We're thinkers. We like getting outside the box to get results, but never just to be cool. We care too much about conversions to worry about being cool. We're outside the big city and provide our clients with good old fashioned service. Our business is built on conversions, communication, sales … you know, results.