Packing & Shifting!!!

Nic hard at work, taping the boxes!

Tables cleared within an hour. We are really an efficient team alright!

Yup, you would’ve guessed it! Clickr Media has moved from iHub to a new cozy location at 65B Tanjong Pagar Road! With good food found almost at every corner of Tanjong Pagar, we really need to find a new route for our weekly running sessions as a team!

*oops! Do give us a moment to clean up the mess from the renovation works…*

& there you go,

Welcome to Clickr Media @ Tanjong Pagar Road!

We’re still in the midst of beautifying the Meeting Room at the Attic! More photos will be up soon, so stay tuned!

All of us have been working (and eating) hard in our cozy (and chilly) office plus, at the same time, making it a point to get down to some physical workouts and sweating it out during our weekly run. What better way to keep the team spirit up than to work and play hard together.

Run, Clickr, Run!

Let’s take it easy this long weekend and take a look at our favourites of the week:

Facebook Celebrates One Year of the Like Button

Say “Happy Birthday” to Facebook’s Like button for turning one!

The Future of Geolocation: What is Coming?

As geolocation is slowly taking the center stage and evolving in the mobile arena since Foursquare, what does it take to keep users interested and continue checking in?

Facebook Questions: Is it Just a Senseless Census?

Is Facebook Questions making enough $ense as a tool for brands and business?

iPhone 5 in the Wild?

While some of us here are waiting for the arrival of iPad 2 in Singapore, rumour has it that iPhone 5 may already be in the hands of developers after words of it to be shipping in Septmenber. We shall see.

Damn You Auto Correct!

Have you ever encountered embarrassing moments when your iPhone’s auto-correction decides to substitute your word for another, making the point you wanted to get across totally out? Check out this website for a good laugh at some of the funniest auto-correction blunders!

Have a goodie-good weekend and Happy Easter Day in advance!

Web Designer

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and design aesthetically pleasing websites, easy to browse with clear presentation of information.
• Design and create compelling Facebook pages and tabs that communicate a product or brand in a smaller space.
• Design advertising banners that match an advertiser’s website or brand in terms of visual look & feel, graphics, styles, navigation and layout.
• Communicate and oversee the consistency of website designs.
• Work with Development Team to facilitate and implement creative designs.

Skills:

• Good communicator.
• Creative thinking yet pay great attention to details and user experience.
• Bonus if you can produce designs in valid XHTML and CSS.
• Bonus if you have experience with Adobe Flash.

Education & Qualifications:

• Minimum diploma in Design, IT, Advertising, Business, Marketing or Communications.
• 3 years experience in a similar role is preferred. However, fresh graduates with a strong portfolio are also welcome to apply.

Online Marketing Executive (SEO)

Responsibilities:

• Planning of objectives and execution of SEO campaigns
• Keyword research
• Competitive and market analysis
• Website audit for SEO problems
• Content development and optimisation
• Link building strategies and execution
• Reporting and analysis

Skills:

• Good written English
• Strong analytical skills
• Good communicator
• Creative thinking
• Bonus if candidate is able to take on the web developer role in fixing SEO problems
• Bonus if candidate has prior paid search campaign management experience

Education & Qualifications:

• Minimum diploma in IT, Advertising, Business, Marketing or Communications.
• Understanding of search engine crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms.
• Fundamental knowledge in the technologies (HTML, PHP, Apache, etc.) powering a website
• Experience with SEO tools, Google Analytics and other web analytics tools.

Interested candidates, please email detailed resume and portfolio to hr@clickrmedia.com
Only Singaporeans and PRs may need to apply.

If you fit the criteria, feel free to apply and we will be in touch soon to discuss more. Good luck!

Rather than spending the dollars on yet another job posting, we figured it may be easier with your help. Read on for the usual job description.

Web Developer

You will be:

• Working with a team of passionate Internet marketers to develop a wide range of websites and applications for businesses in various industries.
• Advising and supporting our campaign specialists in implementations utilising products like Facebook, Google Analytics, Twitter, etc.
• Becoming the subject matter expert in specific products and technologies playing an important role in the company as we grow together.

You must:

• Have at least 2 years of experience working with PHP and MySQL. Proficiency is key, freelance experience is fine.
• Be an expert at crafting structured HTML and CSS.
• Be familiar with AJAX and can code in JavaScript without a sweat.
• Be responsible of the tasks assigned to you and be independent in completing them.
• Be a Singaporean or Singapore PR.

You stand a high chance if you are:

• Capable of designing and developing beautiful websites from conceptualisation to production to deployment.
• Familiar with WordPress, Magento or similar software.
• Familiar with Facebook development.
• Familiar with search engine optimisation (SEO).

Drop us an email at hr@clickrmedia.com if you know someone who fits the bill. As the title mentioned, A S$200 bounty is yours if we hire the Web Developer you referred to us.

Please help to spread the word via email, Facebook, Twitter or just tell a friend! We definitely appreciate your help! =)

With Viper SmartStart, you can. Don’t you just love how iPhone has an App for almost everything.

Snow Leopard Bug Deletes All Data, Apple Enters Data Loss Competition With Microsoft

Are you a Mac user who upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard and had a Guest account in your system before upgrading? Go, read.

The Bladeless Fan

Seems like it is really possible to have a bladeless fan! It looks aesthetically pleasing and you can probably clean it in less than a minute compared to conventional fans.

Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag

Now there are reports that Yahoo! still DO index the meta keywords tag but it just feels like they will almost never use it. Oh well, we still take our stand on not wasting time with your meta keywords.

Help Twitter Nail Spammers

Great, finally we get to police those spammers on Twitter with its “Report [username] for spam” feature. Community effort! On second thought, if spammers could automate “Report for spam” and flood Twitter with false reports on legitimate accounts, does it still serve its purpose? By the way, @clickrmedia is on Twitter too!

The Fun Theory: Volkswagen Masters the Viral Video

Great branding campaign by Volkswagen. If you can afford 3 minutes and 40 seconds, go watch them.

I Just Made Love: Web Users Plot their Love-Making on a Map

Social media at a whole new level! How social will you get on your last love making session?

Signing off sipping my first ever cup of Trung Nguyen Vietnamese coffee. Have a great weekend!

The number of internet users around the world

From a macro view point, there is an estimated 1.67 billion internet users or 24.7% of the world’s population who goes online with the majority coming from right where we are, Asia.

A further breakdown of the statistics indicate the internet penetration rate by countries, which we would drill deeper into the local context, Singapore, being one of the most connected countries in terms of ICT development, has a whopping internet penetration rate of 67% and rising. This is from a population of 4.99 million as of 28 September 2009. That would make up approximately 3.5 million internet users, and 1 million home broadband subscribers cramped up on the little island itself.

Adding further, Singapore was recently ranked the 4th strongest mobile market in the world. Having 1,310 mobile phone subscribers per 1,000 population and an ever growing 3G market, we would have yet another load of mobile internet users on the go.

Number of mobile phone users in Singapore

With these astounding figures in mind, reaching out to the local audience online should always be considered for your marketing mix. Having said that, choosing the right internet marketing channels objectively, with reference to your target audience’s demographics and psychographics, is important as well. Do not simply attempt the online medium blindly if I should say. Marketing with insights and understanding the trends is highly significant for a successful online campaign.

So if your planning permits, do not discount the online media and approach your target audience holistically through a combination of both offline and online channels for your strategic marketing campaign.

OK the above was written in an exaggerated form but you get the point la. Yes the “la” was to emphasize that we’re Singaporeans, just in case you have not noticed.

So today we have finally managed to launch our new website. Why did it take so long you might ask? Well, to be frank, we wanted to build the site from scratch, without simply paying off someone to do it. We wanted to put our own abilities to the test. We wanted to really know how proficient and efficient we are in the key areas of Web Design & Usability, Website Development, Content Management Systems, Content Development, Search Engine Optimisation, Keyword Analysis, Copy Writing, etc. In a way, if we are not capable of putting up a good website, who are we to be your strategic partner or adviser for your internet marketing needs?

Having said all that, we do humbly seek to receive your valuable feedback on our site if you would be most generous to critique. We also look forward to all your opinions or suggestions on services you would like us to provide. Lastly, as we usually tell our clients sincerely and truthfully (our business is built on moral values), please feel free to let us know if you have any queries, we would be most obliged to help.

TGIF and have a great weekend ahead. Cheers!