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Google Blogoscoped found some interesting advice from Google’s Checkout blog today. According the blog, …users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge. This is great advice for anyone using Google Checkout and wanting to increase conversions. For more advice checkout Brian’s article: Does Telling Someone to“Click Here” Work? Technorati Tags: marketing, [...]
Guest Post at Kissmetrics: Increasing Value in a Declining Ad Market
I’ve written a guest post at the Kissmetrics blog explaining how you can increase blog value even as your blog’s total revenue decreases. To help you keep your sanity around the economic downturn and the spending cuts in the ad market, this guide will help you understand and increase value even as your revenues decrease. Head over [...]
Conversations About Social Media - January 2-4, 2009
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. Facebook Connect to Render FriendFeed Useless? Historical Tweets The Future Problem on Music and Social Media The Simple Truth About Digg’s Lack of Profits Rules for Being a Social Media Expert (or Not) 140+ More Twitter Tools As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or [...]
Conversations About Social Media - December 31-January 1
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. What Yahoo! Must Do to Survive Poll: If You Could Use Only One Social Site The Power of Relationships & Influencers As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati Tags: [...]
Conversations About Social Media - December 29-30
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. Ten Reasons to Be Optimistic About Online in 2009 How Small Towns Are Social Networks As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati Tags: online, internet, 2009, [...]
Conversations About Social Media - December 26-28
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. TechCrunch’s secret Digg army StumbleUpon Takes A Lesson From Digg Building a Community Around Neighborhood News Verizon Awarded ‘Largest-Ever’ Cybersquatting Judgment As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati Tags: techcrunch, [...]
Conversations About Social Media - December 24-25
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. Christmas Logos 2008 Social Media, Learn to Crawl Before you Walk Google Money Tree Scam & Hydra Affiliate Network As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati Tags: christmas, [...]
Conversations About Social Media - December 22-23
Here’s a recap of the most active conversations from The Social Media Room. Is Facebook an Online Community? Social Media and SEO — Friends with Benefits? A Debt Collectors Approach to Social Media As always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati Tags: [...]
Obama-Biden: Open Government, Now Open For Questions
It’s something that I have been anxiously waiting for to happen ever since I first got involved with socially driven sites - and began to understand their true power - and it has finally become a reality. Imagine my surprise when I saw that Obama’s change.gov site had introduced a mechanism for suggesting questions and [...]
How to build and launch a social news site in 3 weeks
Check out this interview that Webjackalope conducted with the Tip’d team. The team explains exactly how they managed to build and launch the social news site for financial news, ideas, and tips, in just 21 days!
Tip’d turns 1.0 - A community for financial news, ideas, and tips
Hey everyone, wanted to announce that Tip’d, our socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips has turned 1.0. Please drop by the blog to check out all the changes. Also, read more coverage: Moolanomy, Four Pillars, Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, Cash Money Life, Five Cent Nickel, Own The Dollar, My Two Dollars, My Retirement [...]
Tip’d - A community for financial news, ideas, and tips
Hey everyone, wanted to announce the launch of Tip’d, a socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips. Please drop by, sign up, and give the site a try. I have taken the responsibilities of ‘community director’ at Tip’d, so if you have something to say, please get in touch! Also, read more coverage: Tip’d, ZDNet, [...]
Erick Schonfeld’s discussion of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere said something quite alarming, Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The majority of the Top 100 [...]
The BETA Tag: Crowdsourced Product Testing
Royal Pingdom asks a very pertinent question today, why is half of google in beta? Google is known for keeping their products in beta (much) longer than most other companies. But exactly how many of their products are in beta? When we here at Pingdom investigated this, it turned out that out of the 49 Google [...]
Understanding ‘Real People’ - Are You Creating Value?
‘…people can and will carve out the time for social media IF they see a reason to.’ There is a prevailing thought among pundits that ‘real people’ don’t have time for social media, which, if true, has major implications for anyone behind a social web startup wanting to build a monetizable audience To understand ‘real people’ [...]
attending blogworldexpo 2008? attend my panel, let’s meet up
i will be at blogworldexpo 2008, speaking on a panel along with dan gray, michelle naranjo, and scott monty (confirmed so far). We will be covering topics related to establishing blogger credibility and how to be taken seriously on the web. in order to properly review a product, you have to experience it first hand. how [...]
guest post at mashable: are ping.fm & co. solving the problem or exacerbating it?
i’ve written a guest post at mashable debating whether ping.fm and similar sites are helping fix our fragmented networks or worsening the fragmentation. ping.fm finally announced its open beta today and not everyone is rejoicing. when i first started monitoring these services that allow you to send messages across multiple platforms i was happy. i thought, [...]
guest post at read/writeweb: the case for an apple inetwork
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb making the case for the next version of itunes to go truly social. itunes social networking and collaborative filtering (recommendations) system, coupled with the iphone’s versatile wireless communication and media sharing capabilities, topped off with media and information management (and sharing) in the cloud, the combo is no doubt [...]
guest post at read/writeweb: has yahoo! buzz lived up to the buzz?
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb looking at the state of yahoo! buzz in the wake of the most recent changes. since they opened the submission process to everyone, the buzz surrounding the site has really been at a high. desperate publishers and marketers who were previously locked out of the supposed ‘traffic mecca’ have [...]
guest post at search engine land: social media marketing roi - metrics and analysis
i’ve written a post on search engine land covering some basics of social media content marketing, roi metrics, and analysis. when you take the advice above, keep in mind that businesses cannot succeed in social media without obeying the principles of authenticity, integrity, transparency, and participation. self-serving networking and a singular and goal of promoting your [...]