Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 17th, 2009
The average American who is online visited 88 domains during 51 internet sessions in June 2009, according to Nielsen Online. They also surfed 2,569 pages and spent an average of 57 seconds per page.
Not surprisingly, almost all web surfing starts with Google. Google remains the top company for American surfers with over 155 million visitors [...]
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Most sales reps hate cold calling. After all, what’s to like about it?
Most people you don’t ever reach and some are pretty rude. As somebody who has been selling for over 25 years, I can tell you that the situation is getting worse.
Sure, there are ways to make cold calling less cold, like using Linked [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Computer drivers need updated and it’s not an easy thing to do… until now.
Driver Access has a database of over 1.5 million computer drivers that can be easily downloaded and updated to your computer.
Ethernet Drivers are just some of the many drivers that are available on the Driver Access site. If you need your Modem [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Who hasn’t had a computer that was affected by a virus. I know I’ve thrown out at least two over the years when they’ve been hit by nasty viruses.
When a computer gets hit by a virus, it clobbers it. You lose so much valuable data that is unable to be retrieved and if you do [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
50% OFF!
That’s the deal that Best of the Web is offering for July, 2009!
Best of the Web announced yesterday that it is offering a special 50% off discount for the remainder of July, 2009 only. It’s called the Bundled Submission. Buy a web directory listing to Best of the Web and a dedicated page about [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
If you read our last post about the research in interactive marketing based on Forrester Research, you’ve seen that there will continue to be a significant increase in spending on interactive marketing for the next five years. In fact, by 2014, interactive marketing will represent 21% of all marketing investment.
So, then, why does pay per [...]
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Interactive marketing in the United States will reach $55 billion by 2014, according to a study by Forrester Research.
Search marketing will lead the growth, totaling $31.5 billion by 2014, followed by display advertising at $16.9 billion. Social media projects to $3.1 billion and email marketing to $2.1 billion.
The news is not good news for traditional [...]
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
As of July 4 , more than 5.8 million Facebook users were 55 and older, according to a recent study by iStrategyLabs. The survey also found that students use of Facebook fell 16.5 percent for high school students and 22 percent for college students.
“There have been rumors that these younger user groups are being alienated by their parents joining [...]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
The Facebook boom continues!
I have seen it personally as high school friends and even my old teachers from the 70’s have become my Facebook friends and users over the past six months.
Facebooks’s traffic is up more than 250% this year with 113 million users in May 2009. That’s only 20 million less than giant Yahoo. Yahoo [...]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
According to a study printed in WebProNews about email marketing, the subject line has a great affect on the open rates to your emails.
Here are the Top 10 Subject Line Words to Use:
1. news
2. party
3. newsletter
4. free
5. night
6. sale
7. com
8. update
9. holiday
10. week
Other factors that greatly affect open rates for emails include having a subject [...]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The Canadian House of Commons has introduced a bill to create the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA). It is Canada’s version of the less than successful US CAN-SPAM legislation.
The bill seeks to cut down on SPAM, but also addresses phishing, spyware, and unsolicited text messages.
Penalties for violations are stiff. Businesses and consumers can take civil [...]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
You can update your Windows drivers on your computer easily and efficiently by using Drivers Detective. This software is uploaded to your computer and it has over 3.3 million different drivers contained within it.
Driver Detective detects which Windows drivers that you have and then begins the updating process so that you have the latest drivers [...]
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Most Twitter accounts are set up and then never used, according to a study by HubSpot.
Here are some interesting facts about Twitter use, or non-use:
56% follow nobody
55% have never Tweeted
80% don’t provide a homepage URL which is an easy link for SEO purposes
76% have no biography
69% don’t specify a location
Active Twitter Users
The average user Tweets [...]
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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