November 2015

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Haden Interactive will be closed for Thanksgiving weekend.

  • Are You Going to #OptOutside?

    Are You Going to #OptOutside?

    Last month REI announced that they will be closing on Black Friday. Since then, a number of other outdoor companies, including big names like Outdoor Research, have decided to close their doors on the most hyped shopping day in America. REI isn’t the first company ever to refuse to take part in Black Friday, but…

  • Healthcare on Pinterest

    Healthcare on Pinterest

    Healthcare continues to be one of the main topics Americans search for online. Google has upped its special healthcare searches to 900, and some 85% of people who used the internet say they have searched for information about health. Pinterest, a popular secondary search engine for many of its hundred million plus users, is increasingly…

  • Social Media Makes It Easy

    Social Media Makes It Easy

    Matthew Willcox, in his new book, The Business of Choice: Marketing to Consumers’ Instincts, describes an experiment in marketing and social media. Participants were given £50, which is about $76 as of this writing, and asked to divide the money up among three charities. Participants were shown ads for all three charities, and they could…

  • Trying Out WP-Optimize

    Trying Out WP-Optimize

    Your company’s WordPress website requires some maintenance and upkeep. This is a reason some people don’t choose to use WordPress, but the alternative is to allow your website to degrade over time, and have a new one built every few years. That’s what people used to do, and it is still an option. If you…

  • Are You Ready for Cyber Monday?

    Are You Ready for Cyber Monday?

    Cyber Monday, the newest shopping holiday, was made up early in the 21st century, with the idea that people who had shopped on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday would get back to work with some of that consumerist fever still running through their veins, and would respond to special online deals they could snag…