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Great Advice On Starting Twitter

Moderator — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:06 +0000

For many small home business owners, Twitter isn’t one of the social media methods commonly used. Mainly, this is due to a lack of understanding of this particular communication strategy and also false notions about its usefulness.

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Google Docs facilitates finding facts and doing research

Moderator — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:40 +0000

A new feature in Google’s word processing program let’s users access the Web giant’s search function and “with just a couple clicks you can look up maps, quotes, images, and much more.”
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from CNET News.com

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Facebook raises IPO price as offering nears

Moderator — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:37 +0000

Already expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering for an Internet company, Facebook is making its IPO even bigger.

from Yahoo! News: Technology News

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Why Pinterest Is A Blogger’s Dream

Moderator — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:24 +0000

Pinterest is a great site especially for bloggers.Read this article to learn how you can use it and get a lot of traffic and leads to your site.
from The Home Business Archive

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Writing Good Headlines, Dell #XPS 13, and an Affiliate Summit Central 2012 Preview

Moderator — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:14 +0000

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille preview Affiliate Summit Central 2012, talk about the new Dell XPS 13, and how Fort Lee, NJ cracking down on walking texters.

They also talked about Eduardo Saverin being a creep, affiliate nexus tax dead in MN, writing headlines, and the most friendly states for small business.

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from Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Supreme Court denies Psystar’s appeal in Mac clone case

Moderator — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:01:01 +0000

The Supreme Court has denied Psystar’s request to review an injunction against it set by a lower court in 2009, and upheld last September.
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from CNET News.com

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Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders

Moderator — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:45 +0000

Yahoo’s dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company’s ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four months after his arrival.

from Yahoo! News: Technology News

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Immense Growth of Internet Marketing Companies

Moderator — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:30 +0000

Do you ever wonder why you’re getting emails literally almost every day from companies offering internet marketing services in general? Whether it be article writing services, search engine marketing or even a simple website optimization service that includes web design and such, it’s just clear that these internet marketing companies are sprouting and growing faster than ever.

There’s a good reason for their growth and this is due to demand.

Demand for Internet Marketing Services

The growth of internet marketing companies has actually started a long time ago. Ever since late 2005, there are already companies that offer marketing services to other businesses. The only thing different these days is that it seems these internet marketing companies are sprouting faster than ever. Every person who knows a thing or two about blogging or SEO seems to be convinced that he’s qualified to do the business.

To be fair with these companies, the reason why a lot of people are enamored to do this is because there is a huge demand. The entire internet marketing hype has reached its peak and that has convinced a lot of offline business owners to incorporate online marketing to their business. Hence, the plethora of internet marketing consulting firms has started sprouting.

Regardless of how they’re charging their clients, they seem to be offering pretty much the same things. The only thing that’s slightly different is positioning. Perhaps the way they ‘position’ their offer is different but the basic concept is the same.

Positioning pitches or offers is something that companies use to their advantage. For instance, if I offer marketing services myself and just offer it as a general internet marketing service to my clients, it would be harder for me to sell it as oppose to someone offering something specific like a Pay-per click management service, who can later on build more and upsell other services to his clients.

A lot of people are even primarily offering social media consulting but it’s not hard to see that it’s the same internet marketing service that others are promoting. And as I mentioned above, you have those other companies that ‘front’ even smaller services like article writing/guest posting and webpage optimization packages.

To simply put it, companies offer a specific service in hopes that the client will be satisfied and thus avail more of their services.

Who’s really your client

The main reason why internet marketing companies position their offer differently is that it depends to their potential clients or the market/niche that they are offering this to.

It’s easier to sell an SEO service to a local business that’s starting to get established online than an online business that already has some knowledge perhaps on how the internet works. I’m not saying that its easier because you’re selling something to a “fool” but rather it’s just how business works.

Flower shop owners in Chicago hire companies who provide internet marketing in Chicago to do campaigns for them not only because they’re not knowledgeable on that part but also because they don’t want to be knowledgeable and thus involved on doing those things. The same with dentists near your location, veterinarians in Alabama, or even real estate business owners in Dallas. If I’m good with taking care of cats, then how would you expect me to be good with PPC or even be interested with it?

Another good example is traditional & old online businesses. People offer the social media/web 2.0 services because they know that that these businesses might not have been involved deeply yet with social media and some of the “newer” stuff. Here you cannot offer content-writing services or copywriting because they already have people that are doing this for them for a long time.

All in all, it’s about who you are targeting to. Most companies make this mistake of just ‘shot-gunning’ everyone with their ‘general’ offers not knowing that the people they’re pitching to might even be better than them at what they do. Like how I receive emails daily from people offering me their search engine optimization services as if I don’t know SEO myself (but I’m not an expert obviously).

There’s no doubt it’s good to get as many potential clients as you can to send your services to but whether they’re really a ‘potential’ client or not is another thing. This is where most marketing companies fail. And unfortunately, this is the trend that new internet marketing companies get themselves to do as well. They just follow the herd and don’t do it the proper way.

To be fair with these companies, the reason why a lot of people are enamoured to do this is because there is a huge demand. The entire internet marketing hype has reached its peak and that has convinced a lot of offline business owners to incorporate online marketing to their business. Hence, the plethora of internet marketing consulting firms has started sprouting.

To simply put it, companies offer a specific service in hopes that the client will be satisfied and thus avail more of their services.

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Understating The Importance Of Webhosting And SEO

Moderator — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:19 +0000

Webhosting and SEO is really important for bloggers.This article shares some useful tips and information you need to know when choosing a webhosting service.
from The Home Business Archive

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Unboxing the Dell XPS 13

Moderator — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:13 +0000

I’ve been on a long journey with Dell products that began back in the mid-1990s. I have continued buying Dell machines for my business and family, because they’ve been reliable, easy, and fast.

My latest computer is the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, which is just a gorgeous, light, and speedy laptop. I was excited to get this one as a gift from Dell to share my candid views of it.

I got a chance to meet a bunch of the folks at Dell in 2010 when I was selected to sit on their inaugural Customer Advisory Panel, so thank you to them for sending the XPS 13 my way.

Anyhow, on to the XPS 13 – it’s amazing to see how Dell has evolved from some of those back-breaking laptops I used to haul around years ago.

This beauty weighs less than 3 pounds and it’s less than a quarter inch thick, which is not so much more than an iPad.

I think this is significant, because I’ve been hearing from lots of people that they travel with their iPad over a laptop these days. Personally, I want and need the power that comes with a laptop over a tablet.

Some other specs I like are the backlit keyboard, nearly 9 hours of battery time, and the HD display (Corning Gorilla Glass – nice when it encounters my rough travel and my 4 rough kids).

It’s also got a machined aluminum body and carbon fiber base. Now that doesn’t really mean anything to me, but I like the way it looks, and the fact that this enables it to be light and cool to the touch.

Now for the guts of it – the XPS 13 boots super fast with it’s SSD (solid state drive) and Intel Rapid Start Technology. They’re available with 2nd generation Intel Core i7 processors.

The base model runs $999 with 4 GB of memory, a 128 GB solid state drive, and it runs on Windows 7.

As far as ports, it’s got two USB ports and one Mini DisplayPort.

I was going to say my one issue with the XPS 13 is that I often take my laptop to use for presentations with my projector, and the projector uses a VGA connector.

But I just searched and found that I can just grab an adapter for pretty cheap to run the XPS 13 to my projector. Nice.

I’m excited to make this my everyday laptop.

from Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Here’s To The Greatest Home Business Of All – Motherhood

Moderator — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:01:01 +0000

A very well deserved Happy Mother’s Day goes out to all of you under-appreciated, over-worked, over-utilized and over-tired mothers out there. The work that goes on inside a home is truly the most tedious and strenuous grind of any employment.

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Dear new Yahoo CEO: End the Facebook patent lawsuit

Moderator — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:33 +0000

commentary In order to save Yahoo from total destruction, new CEO Ross Levinsohn needs to end the Facebook patent lawsuit as quickly as possible.
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Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift

Moderator — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:27 +0000

Don’t let the hoodie and sneakers fool you. Mark Zuckerberg is no wet-behind-the-ears CEO.

from Yahoo! News: Technology News

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Dear Affiliates – We Need You!

Moderator — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:10 +0000

The 10th annual AffStat survey of affiliate marketing statistics is open through May 31, 2012, and we’re trying to get as much input as possible.

This AffStat survey is focused on affiliates, so please do not complete the survey unless you are an affiliate.

Affiliate managers and networks – that would be really cool if you would spread the word.

Data from the AffStat survey will be published in future editions of FeedFront Magazine (get a free subscription), and the full report will be available for free.

Take the survey now.

If you’re interested in the 2011 edition of the AffStat report, it is available to download or read online.

from Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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Fun with lasers: Try popping 100 balloons

Moderator — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:31 +0000

What would you destroy if you had the Spyder III Krypton handy? Just don’t pretend it’s a lightsaber.
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from CNET News.com

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More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths

Moderator — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:00:14 +0000

This was a conference session titled More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths from Affiliate Summit East 2010, which took place August 15-17, 2010 in New York City.

Speaker:

Jason Akatiff, President, Coleadium Inc. dba Ads4Dough

Session description: Want to make more money for the same traffic? Learn about ideas on how to gather data before, increase sales and show multiple offers after you make the sale.

Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Monetization

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/affsum/3b-more-money-same-traffic-list-building-and-paths

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the companies and positions listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: More Money, Same Traffic, List Building & Paths

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

from Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

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10 Tips To Succeed in MLMs

Moderator — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:01:19 +0000

Whether it is a revolutionary diet product, cool kitchen gadget, healthy chocolate (possible?) or low-priced home utility — there is always a reason to get excited about starting a multi-level marketing (network marketing) business. The problem is channeling that frenetic energy so that you can become a focused and effective business owner.

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Headhunting firm denies blame for Yahoo CEO mess, says report

Moderator — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:00:51 +0000

ATD’s Kara Swisher publishes a letter she says is from Heidrick & Struggles CEO Kevin Kelly to his staff. In it, Kelly calls reported suggestions by Yahoo’s Scott Thompson “verifiably not true.”
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from CNET News.com

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Facebook updates data use policy to give more info

Moderator — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:00:49 +0000

Facebook is updating its data use policy in an attempt to give people more clarity on how the company uses information they share.

from Yahoo! News: Technology News

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Thursday “Open Mic” Guest Speaker Series: Ben Waber – CEO, Sociometric Solutions

Moderator — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:00:19 +0000

“I don’t care what the current processes are. Never stop looking for ways to do things better.” – Venkat Kolluri – CEO, Chitika Inc.

As a product of our CEO’s philosophy, we have a weekly tradition here at Chitika to invite a business or industry thought leader join us for family lunch on Thursday afternoons to talk about their work, research or business, and hold an informal discussion with us Chitikans. In the past, we’ve welcomed technologists, charity-focused entrepreneurs, and this week, we brought in MIT Media Lab alum and Harvard Senior Researcher Ben Waber.

Largely stemming from his work at these area academic powerhouses, Ben is also the CEO of Sociometric Solutions, a management consulting company that is turning the industry on its head. As Ben explained, the heart of his companies work is based around the sociometric badge – a technology he and the Sociometric Solutions team helped develop at the Media Lab during the late 2000’s. This device, the size of a small digital camera, is worn by an organization’s employees to physically measure organizational dynamics. Namely:

Who a person is talking to (but not what they are talking about)
How that person is talking (involved, disengaged, interrupting, thought provoking etc.)
Generally where you are in the workplace

These features are all thanks to the badges’ integration of an infrared transmitter, BlueTooth, motion sensors and a microphone. The company’s philosophy of an ‘opt-in’ model still leads to participation rates of close to 90%, and anonymity and privacy are held in the highest regard, including the inability for the badges to physically record conversations and personal statistics never being shared with superiors.

The results they’ve seen from applying the lessons from their insights are truly astounding:

A 25% increase in call processing rate at a Bank of an America call center simply by overlapping employee breaks rather than staggering them. This strategy is in the process of being rolled out by BofA to all of its nationwide call centers.
Increasing sales revenue by 30% thanks to raising the level of face-to-face interaction between different departments at a large German bank.

Chitika employees had a variety of questions ranging from possible additional features, to past experiences, to specifics on the software, and the ensuing discussion lasted well through the end of the lunch hour. Cutting edge technology like this always strikes a nerve with the company, and we were so glad to have Ben showcase the amazing work he and his team is undertaking for our whole Westborough office.

Stay tuned next week for another recap, and drop us a line at press@chitika.com if you’d want to have lunch and share your experience with us!

from Chitika Blog

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