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IRL Spam? Do Not Want.

Posted on 08 January 2010 (1)

While in a bookstore with my mother, we spied the business section and decided to check out the non-virtual competition that my father faced. Although we saw no texts on social media marketing, we did see some new, crisp books on do-it-yourself accounting. Wanting to show me what it’s like in the big bad [...]

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Echo: Time for a New Comment System

Posted on 16 December 2009 (9)

I’ve been on the fence with comment systems for a while.  The list is numerous: Sezwho, Intense Debate, Disqus, Chat Catcher (well that’s just part of Wordpress I suppose),  Haloscan (for the old schoolers) and many more.
Today, I’ve decided on Echo by JS-Kit.  I’ve been watching it in the wild, most recently on 1938media.  I [...]

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Real Time Search Meets Real Time PPC

Posted on 10 December 2009 (2)

For years one has been able to select keywords and have an ad live within mere minutes.  It is what fueled the search marketer’s obsession within instant gratification, knowing that one can start a test and take a lunch break, often to return to the results waiting in the interface.  Organic search has not been [...]

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StumbleUpon Releases New Topics: Facebook and More

Posted on 09 December 2009 (3)

(image credit: xyzzy)
What a year it has been for StumbleUpon.
First, having it break away from eBay (who’s been on a divestiture streak as it is, also recently spinning off Skype) and be repurchased by the original founders seems to be paying off.  Since then, we’ve seen:

A new UI (in beta for a while and rolled [...]

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Shopping Engine Best Practices

Posted on 04 December 2009 (1)

OK.  We’re past Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.  I told you what to expect during the holidays with PPC accounts, and now we’re talking shopping channels.  These are where some people go when they know exactly what they want and they’re looking for one thing, and one thing only: Bargains.  There are dozens of [...]

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The Little Things in Social Media

Posted on 24 November 2009 (7)

Although I’m usually knee-deep in the latest toys of social media, I like LinkedIn. Yes, you heard me. For all the criticism that LinkedIn receives, I find it to be one of the most stable social sites, consistently growing, and abound with reliable information. But, back to the little things, the ones which really make Linkedin special to me.

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