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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

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Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. 2012 sees extreme contraction in the Daily Deal space.

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[Singapore][Event] Day 2 Of ad:tech Singapore 2012 Shows Mobile Promise

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The first day of ad:tech Singapore 2012 gave digital marketers and industry observers a glimpse of the continued growth of the role of technology and digital media in marketing and advertising in the Asia Pacific. Other discussion topics included search, social and digital communities. The Convergence of Search and Social.

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Where to focus in 2012

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The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Economies remain very fragile and so lavish spending on your marketing would be a high risk activity.

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Avoiding Death by To-Do List: 15 Ways To Overcome Overload And Work Smarter In 2012

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And while you’d love to feel energized and excited about jumping into 2012, instead you’re weighed down with dread. You’ll start January 2 feeling overwhelmed and incapable of getting everything done — and 2012 will become another year of wishing things were different. January of 2012 is as good a time as any.

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10 Reasons Why Traffic to Your Small Business Website is Dropping

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An example of a website traffic issue due to an algorithm update would be a case in 2012 when several websites experienced huge drops in traffic. These black hat strategies pushed irrelevant content up the search engine results pages, which made Google act in the form of the Penguin update. Keyword cannibalization.

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[Singapore] What You Googled This Year: Top Google Searches Of 2012

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National Basketball Association (NBA) rising superstar Jeremy Lin emerged as the top name Singaporeans googled this year, beating out even its founding father Lee Kuan Yew (the infamous Amy Cheong of this saga also made the list), while the Olympics 2012 came out as the top trending search. 9 KONY 2012. 9 KONY 2012.

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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

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California-based executive search and technical recruiting firm Riviera Partners recently crunched some numbers by aggregating salary figures from the highest paying tech companies and from a recent report covering the correlation of tech skills in demand and expected salary ranges.