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All Blog Posts Tagged 'social' (21)

Influence scores are like cocktails

One of the more interesting parts of my work involves examining objective fields and attempting to bring clarity to them. Here's a chance to relate two of my favorite topics: social media and social beverages. The validity of social influence is under constant debate. Who is more influential? How does it work? Why isn't my…

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Added by Matthew Copeland on April 2, 2011 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Marketing Obsession: Social media marketing mistakes.

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Added by Manoj Kandasamy on September 29, 2010 at 7:22am — No Comments

How do broad consumer trends relate (or not) to the pharmaceutical industry?

At March 2010’s DTC National conference in Washington, Ogilvy (Chicago) and online community research leader CommuniSpace, presented findings from joint research into shifting American attitudes. Their whitepaper, titled “Eyes Wide Open, Wallet Half Shut,” serves up 10…

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Added by George Fencl on May 12, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Move Your eCommerce to 'The Cloud' for Sales, Economy, SEO, Compliance

Taking advantage of Cloud Computing on the Internet can save your firm money, increase your sales, Enhance your position with the search engines, and help your compliance posture all in one fell swoop.

Moving your operations to 'the cloud' means taking advantage of off-site processing resources while enhancing security and compliance, and economizing on… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on April 19, 2010 at 7:32pm — No Comments

Considering an eBusiness? Many Successful Firms Launched in Bad Times

TechCrunch today says that

a bad economy period is the best time to start a business. Why?

I our mind, it's because you will refine your business model a little more at the beginning. They offer proof by looking back at the economic times some historically successful companies were launched.

A… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on April 10, 2010 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Success Is The Best Revenge: Prevail in These Tough Times

Defeat the Big Government trends with a business that is recession-proof - your business.

Build online sales quickly and easily with an Search Engine Optimized (SEO) 800Cart ecommerce solution

The author is a senior executive at 800Cart Shopping Cart/SEO an advanced ecommerce…

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Added by Ron Robinson on April 9, 2010 at 10:06pm — No Comments

Why Would 50,000 Links TO Your Web Site Be Important to You?

Short reason: the more links pointing to your web site from other web sites the more you rsie in the search engines. Being number one is no longer good enough.

To advance your business, it's best if you dominate the first page of search returns with 4-7 links in the first page. When you use a cloud computing solution like 800Cart and your ecommerce solution is actually on a remote server, then two good… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on April 5, 2010 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Poor Compliance Posture Could Ax Your Online Business

Some merchants have an uneasy feeling that this thing they have been hearing about, PCI DSS, is going to encroach on their business and have an effect on their profits. They are right and 2010 is when it happens. July, 2010 to be exact. 800Cart makes PCI DSS compliance easy. The good news is that if you do not yet know about PCI compliance and you are using 800Cart, you are already compliant. However, if you are using a solution that stores… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 24, 2010 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Your Personal Obama Smackdown: Deprive Big Government of Tax Revenues While Improving Your Own Revenues

One businessman I visit with regularly put it most succinctly: 'If all

of the US's 130 million taxpayers would take the normal tax credits and

deductions of about $4k they would get in the first year for starting a

micro-business, they would instantly deprive the government of $552 billion

(over half a trillion!) dollars in tax revenue. My question is: why isn't

everyone who believes in this country starting a tiny business? With such

sudden and huge fall in… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 16, 2010 at 9:25pm — No Comments

SmackDown Big Government: Lower Taxes, More Cash with a New Online Micro-Business

Does $4,000 more in your pocket sound OK to you? Plusthe profits from starting a low-budget micro business that yields mega-profits?

Well starting an online micro-business on a micro-budget may be just for you - especially as it helps you strike back at a government that is over-taxing you during tough times. If you are unemployed, did you know that your unemployment benefits are taxable??? Legally… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 15, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

GBBO Offers Free UK Business Web Site, Omits Essentials

GBBO (Getting British Business Online) is a laudable effort, but leaves out the most essential ingredient for online

sales success: true eCommerce capability and SEO Search Engine Optimization).

By adding (or even retro-fitting) true ecommerce capability, one can continue

the journey to eCommerce success inexpensively and efficiently.

Soon after setting up a GBBO web site, true…

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Added by Ron Robinson on March 15, 2010 at 5:56pm — No Comments

Mobile Shopping/Mobile SEO Enhances Web Sales

It's an easy principle for merchants to exploit: don't use several tools where only 1 will do! As many merchants have already discovered, offering mobile sales from your web site can add significantly to your bottom line.

800Cart automatically detects and adjusts for mobile shoppers - your mobile shoppers can shop, check out and pay in a 'mobile-optimized environment' - all with the same cart you would… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 12, 2010 at 8:09pm — No Comments

TOP EXPERT: Insane Tip Summons Crazy-Intense Results with Google, Bing; Is Copy/Paste Easy for Beginners

Can you copy/paste a link into a blog entry like this one? Or even into a comment to this blog entry? If you can, then you can dominate the search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing with any product or idea you are selling.

You choose - it doesn't matter what you are selling, just that you sell it successfully. With the huge audience available on the internet, any product or idea can be sold quickly if you… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 11, 2010 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Add eCommerce to Your Web Site in Only 9 Minutes - Upload a File for 64,000 Links to Your Site.

Adding an eCommerce Shopping Cart/Checkout page to your web site is copy/paste easy and can be done in less than 9 minutes - then in just a few minutes more, you can upload a product spreadsheet that will produce 64,000 links back to your web site from over 3,000 purchase-enabled landing pages. That's the way to dominate the search engines quickly. And to make it very easy for more people to find and purchase your products.

Plus,… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 11, 2010 at 7:15pm — No Comments

Fast Viral Sales with 16 Payment-Enabled Landing Pages Per Product is Copy/Paste Easy to Install

Dominate the search engines in just a few days: You can quickly set up any web page to send your sales viral with just one simple copy/paste operation onto your web pages per product. With 16 auto-generated (purchase-enabled) landing pages per product and each of these pages bearing 4 links back to your web site, you will quickly (with only about 100 products) have 64,000 links or so back to your web site raising your page authority and page… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 10, 2010 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Mega-Viral SEO: 50,000 Links to You from 3,333 Checkout Enabled Landing Pages

It shouldn't be rocket science, and it shouldn't take more than 1 vendor to get complete and powerful SEO along with checkout and payment processing in one solution - a solution you can begin deploying in less than 10 minutes. Yes, we DO mean 50,000 links to your web site from over 3,333 landing pages that all have the 'Buy Me'/checkout button and are searchable by product image or video as well as by keywords.

Simply watch the… Continue

Added by Ron Robinson on March 8, 2010 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Facebook & Twitter

I've been using the two mediums for a couple of years now, and finally here in the UK clients are venturing into the world of social media, and about time too. Of course there are lots of the best in the UK ad world Twittering but advertisers have been rather slow on the up take.

The Internet has been around for over ten years as a viable advertising, marketing and information medium, yet what is… Continue

Added by JonClarke on July 30, 2009 at 11:48am — No Comments

Exactitudes: the end of the individuality myth?

Exactitudes, a contraction of “exact” and “attitudes”, was an exhibition and site showcasing some striking photography montages. Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the 14 years. Rotterdam's… Continue

Added by mark stone on April 9, 2009 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Social Network country kings and communities

Think MySpace and Facebook are social networking kings all around the world?

Well, no, that’s not the case if you live in France, Brazil, Russia or any other number of countries.

French news site Le Monde has put together an interesting 'infographic' on which social networks are most popular in which countries. There are huge gaps in data, but then there are lots of places where clean water or… Continue

Added by mark stone on February 13, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments