Archive for June, 2009
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
History has shown that the best time to trade stocks is in a down market. Now is one of those best times.
And, the best way to trade stocks is through an online broker. You may not know much about stocks, but there are so many ways to learn from the internet. Recommendations on what stocks [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
According to a March 2009 study by Internet Wireless World, the number of worldwide internet users is:
1,596,270,108
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Bob Bentz has been working in the 900 numbers industry at Advanced Telecom Services for almost twenty years.
We asked Bentz what the most common question that he has received over those twenty years. Bentz didn’t hesitate when he said: “that’s easy, what percentage of the cost do I get is by far the most common question.”
So, [...]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
What makes for a good directory?
And, with Google’s assertion that it doesn’t want anybody to pay for links, what about buying a link in the Yahoo Directory or on veteran sites like Best of the Web?
Matt Cutts, Google’s guru of SEO, said recently that the key to a directory’s value is that it isn’t just [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
A few years ago, directories became the brunt of many jokes among SEO consultants. If you were an SEO
consultant that recommended directories, you were seen as being out of touch and a pretender, not a contender.
Not much has changed over the years when speaking of general directories, but the truth is that all directories are [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
There’s a burger place near my office called Five Guys. The burgers there are really really good, not like McDonald’s. But, I try to eat healthy so I don’t go to Five Guys as much as I’d like to. I limit myself to once per month.
The problem with Five Guys (other than the fact that [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I love schwag. I’m the guy who loves to take home schwag from trade shows. I usually have a suitcase that is five pounds heavier coming home from the trade show than when I left for the trade show.
But, who needs another coffee mug? A tablet is helpful, but once it is used, it’s gone [...]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Get Clickz writer Anthony Wayne had his article about making money with blogs published in Online Business Watch.
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
In the battle of the web site giants, Twitter is gaining ground, but Google is still the king!
Total Visitors (April 2009)
Google — 131 million
Facebook — 71
My Space — 54
Amazon - 50
Twitter — 17
Twitter shows a 1298% growth over the past year while My Space shows a 7% loss. Facebook had a huge year with a [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
The economy appears to be having an effect on paid search. If you own Google stock, perhaps you already know that.
7.25% of all search engine traffic to all categories of websites currently comes from paid clicks (Hitwise, May 9, 2009). Last year, in this same period, 9.84% of all clicks came from paid clicks.
Part of [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
There are more women on Twitter than men, according to a May 2009 study of Twitter users.
55% of Twitter users are female.
Men have more followers. Of those that women follow, 56% are men. Of those that men follow, an even larger 65% are men.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Total minutes spent on Facebook are up 7 times year over year. In addition, time spent on social networking and blog sites is up 83%!
Total time spent on Facebook is 13.9 billion minutes per month making it the overwhelming # 1 social networking site. MySpace, which used to dominate this space, is # 2 followed [...]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
If you like to write, like I do, your blog or your e-commerce web site has a much better chance to do well than if you don’t.
Article marketing is such an important part of search engine optimization. It creates links and gets click-throughs to your business.
The first thing you have to do is to write [...]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Anybody who works in marketing knows that one of the best things you can find is a great list. If you have a great list of people interested in your product, the rest comes easy.
Finding a good telemarketing list, however, is not an easy chore. Many lists are outdated and the lists that aren’t outdated [...]
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
“Mobile marketing continues to grow,” said Bob Bentz, president of Advanced Telecom Services. “When we talk to advertising agencies, they usually know very little about it, but once they try it, their customers are sold.”
The best thing about mobile marketing is being able to have a one-on-one relationship with the consumer or prospect on the [...]
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