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Write For Profit – Online Writing Skills Can Make You Money

Writing effectively can increase your conversion rates and of course, your overall profits. If you learn some of the basics about how to craft quality online content you will do a better job at keeping your readers engaged...

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why

What questions are you asking about your business, right now? The reason I ask, is that questions are a lot more important to the success of your business, than many people seem to think. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why! ~ William Hazzlitt. Bad questions lead to bad [...]Show More Summary

SEO & Web Marketing for Your Bitcoin Projects

A new direction Today is an exciting day for Mark8t. We have transformed ourselves to serve a new and exciting niche. Bitcoins are a new type of digital currency and right now there are many projects that are being launched that need web marketing help. If you are not sure what Bitcoins are or want [...]Show More Summary

A New Way to Monetize Your Blog: PostJoint

PostJoint is a new service for bloggers to get original and quality content for their sites, while also making money in the process. Bloggers can get paid to publish posts from our advertising partners at a rate of $25 to $500 per post...

PicMonkey: Highly recommended

Today, I want to recommend a wonderful, free resource to you. I’m talking about (drum roll please) the PicMonkey app! PicMonkey and me In short, PicMonkey is a web based app you can use for free, to edit photos and create designs. However, that brief description does not do the app justice. Not even close. [...]Show More Summary

comScore: Hey, There's this New Mobile Thing, Daddy-O | DoubleClick Exchange Wants Your First Person Data

Mobile: comScore discovered that there are a number of mobile internet users that they might measure as well, and that this changes site rankings. Now if we could only convince them that horseless carriages are now allowed on roadways. Search: Average position is a common metric to gauge search engine optimization success, but it's often misunderstood as the [...]

Make Money On The Internet From Home. The Passive, Newbie-Friendly Way

It’s easy to do once you know how but getting there takes times, practice, hands on help and good friends you can ultimately get help from and trust. This is what I found to work well and how I train raw beginners and people who have yet to have success making money online...

Online Marketing News: Predictive Social Tools, Content Marketing & The Customer Journey

Brands understand the importance of content marketing, yet most have not yet addressed their content needs on either a strategic or tactical level, according to Altimeter’s Rebecca Lieb. Researchers for the company conducted interviews with executives actively engaged in content strategy or marketing; their findings were the basis of a new report, Organizing for Content: [...]

The truth about Steve Jobs, research and planning

Steve Jobs was a remarkable person. Like many, I have studied his career for years and been amazed at what he achieved, in such a very short time. One of the things that happens whenever someone has a massive impact in any area of life, is that their ideas get misquoted or distorted. Today’s post [...]Show More Summary

Investing in Enterprise Collaboration Can Help You Attract and Retain Top Talent

According to a Forbes article by Jeanne Meister: “The average worker today stays at each of his or her jobs for 4.4 years, according to the most recent available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the expected tenure of the workforce’s youngest employees is about half that.  Ninety-one percent of Millennials (born between [...]

Stand Out In Your Niche With A Digital Magazine

Imagine being the first in your niche to offer a digital magazine. Tablet and smart phone users crave content. We all know that. Why not give your customers what they want on multiple platforms...

Communications revolution

I'd like to step way, way back and look at the big picture of where we are today with our ongoing communications revolution. This is not a view, to use the cliché, from 30,000 feet. It's the view from 1,000...

Top 7 corporate citizens

By Amanda Ponzar @LivingUnited Many organizations publish top 100, top 50, top 10 lists. So here are my top 7. United Way Worldwide –- the largest privately funded nonprofit in the U.S. and the world –- just announced its highest national awards for philanthropy, volunteer engagement and community impact. Show More Summary

Time Sensitive Courtesy Notice (6 Days Left)

As a courtesy notice, there are only SIX days left (including today) to take advantage of my April Special Offers. There are 3 cool options, and they all end on May 1st. I'll give you a brief description so you don't miss out if you want to jump on these...

Publishers Wake Up to Idea that Privacy Regs = Greater Publisher Power | Rationality Hits; TV Sales Expected Lower | Google Allows Tracking Value by Mobile Status

Publishing: It took them a few weeks, but publishers are now making noises that they aren't necessarily against greater privacy regulation. Accustomed to dumb regulatory ideas, the knee-jerk reaction of many was to assume the worst of the proposed measures. Upon analysis, many publishers see further cookie regulation as handing power back to publishers from the [...]

Are You Wearing Too Many Hats?

Some of us need a great Virtual Assistant (VA); some of us need full-time employees; and some of us just need a reliable person to take care of a short-term project (contract work). But how do you know you're getting the right perso...

Brands Gone Wild: Social Media Marketing Fails & Lessons Learned

So you want your campaign to go viral… Let’s keep in mind your business objectives, shall we? As these social marketing fails will show, campaigns may take off but go seriously sideways if companies place popularity above purpose. Some companies can afford more risk and racier campaigns than others, yet risk in business must always [...]

Talk is cheap

Does your business have a slogan associated with it? If it does, I have a question for you: How closely does that slogan reflect the reality of your business? Words are easy For example, the businesses in every niche claim to offer outstanding customer service, yet this is factually incorrect. If they really DID offer [...]Show More Summary

Without Analytics, Big Data is Just Noise

Guest post by Eric Schwartzman, founder and CEO of Comply Socially, which helps employers manage the risk and capitalize on the opportunities of social media in the workplace. Follow him on Twitter @EricSchwartzman The online Boston Marathon bombing witch-hunt last week dragged social media down to a new low. Social media has become “the cocktail [...]

What is the Fastest Way to Learn WordPress?

By the end of this post you’ll know a way that you can learn WordPress in about 2 hours so you can build your first, great-looking, website in one day...

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