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Vancouver-based internet marketing company, Standard Marketing, offers a guarantee program to double a customer's gross revenue from internet directories within one year.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (PRWEB) February 29, 2012

According to Ken Lapp, President of Standard Marketing, an appropriate metaphor to understand the limited reach of Yellow Pages is: "if there was a small strip mall on Main Street, wouldnt you rather have an opportunity to be found by everybody walking on Main Street rather than just by the people who go into the strip mall?"

Standard Marketing leverages its 12 years of experience in the internet marketing field to engage in proven tactics that yield the best possible results. Although variations apply depending on each client, each strategy is based on a mix of Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Local Search Optimization and Automated Email Marketing, among others.

Lapp also commented on the potential of this offer: "Internet Marketing is amazingly measurable and this is what makes up for this offer's great potential. We can take advantage of this data to let the client know how their internet marketing is doing in all important areas and to identify opportunities for greater growth. Doubling our clients' business is our success benchmark in this guarantee program but that doesn't mean we'll stop there. We'll go as far as possible to get our clients the best possible return on their investment."

About Standard Marketing

Standard Marketing has been providing internet marketing services since 1999 from Vancouver, B.C. to clients around the world. Among the services offered are Search Engine Optimization, Website Design, Social Media Marketing, Automated Email Marketing, Pay-per-click Services and SEO Serminars. The company also offers traditional marketing services such as Branding and Photography. The company is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau, it's a member of the American Marketing Association, the Vancouver Board of Trade, the International Internet Marketing Association and of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization.

Additional information about Standard Marketing is available at http://www.standardmarketing.ca

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You don't have to look very far to notice that there are a lot of car companies trying to get in the social game -- you can see plenty examples in this year's Super Bowl ads.

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It wasn't always this way for Ford. In 2009, they recruited Scott Monty to be their head of social media. Since then, he's come up with innovative strategies to blend social into all of Ford's marketing campaigns.

"Social media is not a standalone," Monty said. "It's not a rubber stamp you put on after having done everything else. It's absolutely important to be integrated into the thinking early on as you're putting your strategies, programs and tactics together."

[More from Mashable: Facebook Marketing: Why News Feed Still Trumps Timeline Pages]

In this episode of Behind the Brand, Monty speaks to Brian Elliot about the company's biggest success stories in bringing all their marketing elements together. When Ford began planning how to unveil the 2011 Ford Explorer, they decided they wanted to centralize the announcement around the brand's Facebook Page.

"Not only did we want to reinvent the vehicle, we wanted to reinvent the way we told the story," Monty said.

Watch the whole interview with Scott Monty above to learn about the innovations behind Ford's social media strategy, and how he's helped raise the brand's engagement level, then tell us what you think in the comments.

Behind the Brand is hosted by Bryan Elliott. Stay tuned to Mashable every Wednesday for new episodes.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

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The Far East government is known for strict censorship when it comes to social networking, but this week its citizens caught onto a glitch in the system and glimpsed an uncensored world.

China's "Great Firewall" is the tongue-in-cheek way to refer to the Chinese government's blocking and censorship of Web sites. And, somehow, that wall has been fractured this week.

It all started when Chinese citizens flooded President Obama's Google+ page over the weekend, leaving thousands of messages ranging from jokes to begging the U.S. president to do something about China's civil rights issues.

Now, Reuters reports that Chinese Internet users have accessed YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter--all sites normally blocked by the Great Firewall.

The Chinese government has set up alternate social-networking sites--the most popular is a microblogging platform called Weibo. However, according to government rules, anyone who uses this site and other local social-networking sites must register their real names for verification by government authorities. Also, certain topics are taboo on these sites.

It's unclear how people got onto YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, but according to Reuters people were able to access the sites on both mobile phones and desktops on Monday and Tuesday. By Wednesday, however, the Great Firewall was back up again.

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DAMASCUS, Feb. 29 -- Specialized authorities in Syria are still hunting down remnants of armed groups at restive Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, said private al-Ekhbaria TV Wednesday amid other reports by Syria's media claiming that the restive neighborhood is almost under Syrian army's control.

The Ekhbaria TV said many armed men were killed as others have turned themselves in to the authorities in Baba Amr.

Meanwhile, the Syria Now website cited what it called "security sources" as saying that army troops carried out mass cleansing operation in the restive neighborhood, adding that the soldiers are searching all the cellars and tunnels in Baba Amr in search of weapons and "terrorists."

"Baba Amr is living the last hours of fighting and cleansing the area completely is around the corner," the report said.

Baba Amr has emerged as the epicenter of armed confrontation between troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and armed rebels comprising partly of army defectors. Activists said the region has been under the army bombardment for nearly a month.

Activists said hundreds of people have been killed in Baba Amr since Feb. 4, when the Syrian army started its assault on "armed groups."

Earlier in the day, Syria's state-run SANA news agency said three gunmen were killed and others were wounded as they tried to cross from Lebanon into Homs, adding that a Syrian soldier was wounded in the clash.

On Tuesday, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) said that it had evacuated 30 people from Baba Amr.

In a statement carried by SANA, the SARC pointed out that its volunteers in Homs have been working around the clock since Friday in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate the injured form Baba Arm neighborhood.

It added that humanitarian aid was also provided to other restive provinces such as Daraa, Hama, Homs, Deir al-Zour, and some suburbs of the capital such as Madaya and al-Zabadani.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top official in Tibet has urged authorities to tighten their grip on the Internet and mobile phones, state media reported on Thursday, reflecting the government's fears about unrest ahead of its annual parliamentary session.

The move is the latest in a series of measures the government says are intended to maintain stability, and comes after a spate of self-immolations and protests against Chinese control in the country's Tibetan-populated areas.

It is likely to mean phone and online communications will be even more closely monitored and censored than is normal.

Chen Quanguo, who was appointed the Chinese Communist Party chief of Tibet last August, urged authorities at all levels to "further increase their alertness to stability maintenance" ahead of the National People's Congress, the official Tibet Daily newspaper quoted him as saying on Wednesday.

China's rubber-stamp parliament session meets next Monday.

"Mobile phones, Internet and other measures for the management of new media need to be fully implemented to maintain the public's interests and national security," Chen said.

China has tightened security in what it calls the Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan parts of the country following several incidents in which people have set fire to themselves, and protests against Chinese rule, mostly in Sichuan and Gansu provinces.

March is a particularly sensitive time for Tibet, as it marks five years since deadly riots erupted across the region.

Twenty-two Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest since March 2011, and at least 15 are believed to have died from their injuries, according to rights groups. Most of them were Buddhist monks.

Chen also vowed to "completely crush hostile forces" that he said were led by the Dalai Lama, suggesting that he will not ease the government's hardline stance towards the region, enforced by his predecessor Zhang Qingli.

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