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As fans gear up for the sixth season premiere of one of America's favorite television comedies, "The Office," we take a look at the top ten things that our favorite paper company employees can teach us about finance. (Read More)
FriendFeed Blog
You might have noticed that FriendFeed looks pretty different today. We've just launched a whole new design, and a host of features and improvements that comes along with it.We unveiled this look three weeks ago in beta and have been busy gathering feedback and making improvements. Here are some of the things you'll now fin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Picture if you will, a collaborative site that runs on two servers, is managed by four people, and has attracted a third of its target demographic within six months of launch. A site that has had 800,000 posts submitted by its users in its short lifetime and has 16 million pageviews/month - and growing.This is the story of (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service Adsense, in one day as well. Now he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi (Read More)
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The swine flu has definitely made its headlines over the past week - however, it's not just getting people sick, the stock market will be affected as well. (Read More)
Mashable!
Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and editor at Online Marketing Blog.Now more than ever, company marketers are charged with improving performance with fewer resources and shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like SEO and social media. There are significant benefits from combining se (Read More)
VentureBeat
Facing ongoing criticism from web publishers about its new toolbar, the DiggBar, social news site Digg has another company blog post up today describing how it’s turning the toolbar into a win for users and publishers and not just for the company itself.The toolbar, which you can access by adding “digg.com/” before a URL on (Read More)
MediaShift
In what some initially speculated to be a homophobic new expurgation policy, Amazon.com removed hundreds of gay and lesbian themed books from its sales rating system, effectively concealing these books from online shoppers. Some titles were completely delisted from Amazon's search engine. The controversy may never have pro (Read More)
TwitLinks
I’d originally intended to respond to Joshua Schacter’s post about URL shorteners and how they’re merely the tip of the data iceberg, but since I missed that debate, Google has fortuitously plied me with an even better example by releasing custom profile URLs today.My point is to reiterate one of Tim O’Reilly’s ever-prescie (Read More)
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Many people describe attraction marketing as building an attractive presence on the Web by continually providing value-oriented content (articles, videos, etc.) to your target audience. As you continue the process, the attraction builds and ultimately you establish yourself as a leader. (Read More)
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: Find ten people. Ten people who trust you/respect you/need you/listen to you... Those ten people need what you have to sell, or want it. And if they love it, you win. If they love it, they'll each find you ten more people (or a hundred or a thousand or, perhaps, just three). Repeat.
: Scammers are everywhere on the internet. You can't just simply trust anyone nowadays. That is why you have to win the trust of your audience first. I agree with what you said, give them valuable contents. You have to first create a giving mindset. Give, give and give. Once they trust you, then they are yours for the taking.
: When you put out attractive content, you are inviting - in a professionally positioned manner - relationships.
The only argument I have with this video and your points Jim is that I think there is NOT a difference between relationship marketing and attraction marketing.
You have to listen to your audience, and all individuals in that audience to be effective at garnering attraction, which invites a sense of trust. When this brings people to you, the process just gets a little more personal.
It’s all relationship marketing.
Fine points Jim, one of your “go-to” pieces of attractive content. I enjoyed the video - always enjoy your videos.
Mashable!
In an article this week, DeliciousDelicious reviewsDelicious reviews founder Joshua Schachter made some very compelling arguments for why URL shorteners might be bad for the web. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding. Twitter turned down an offer to be bought b (Read More)
: I was amazed that the Facebook offer was not accepted but as this story points out the Facebook stock is not and cannot be considered the same as cash. Google can and will pay cash if they want but Google and Twitter do not seem to be as good or logical fit as Facebook and Twitter may have been.
: Twitter is a search engine & as a marketer, imagine the potential of knowing what your customers are thinking & saying in real time about you or the competition? Killer information. Besides, the BORG needs to continue to feed & assimilate.