Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

If you don't see other sources (campaigns – email, social, display) are not tagged. Then go to Traffic Source > Sources > Campaigns to get a feel for how many display, social, email, other campaigns the company might be running. For this to work the ecommerce tag has to be implemented right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2013

However, with the emphasis the search engines are placing on social signals, one way to get even more social juice is to add the native Google +1 button and the native Facebook Like or Share button to the main or secondary header sections of every page on your site. You can grab the code for +1 button here and Facebook button here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So we don't want to lose track of these tried and true things, optimizing title tags and the body copy and all that sort of stuff, doing proper keyword research, optimizing the technical underpinnings of your website, doing all the configuration of your server and so forth using Yost SEO plugin for WordPress. I'm getting a little geeky here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 free tools for monitoring social media, by @dirktherabbit – [link]. Malleable social graphs & mini-mobs: why @ Facebook could destroy @ foursquare & @ gowalla w/ 1 checkin – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 20 free tools for monitoring social media, by @dirktherabbit – [link]. Malleable social graphs & mini-mobs: why @ Facebook could destroy @ foursquare & @ gowalla w/ 1 checkin – [link].

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

The Social Layer. Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer. Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

Is social CRM a product category or a collection of strategies that social media consultants and analysts are pushing? There are many analytics and monitoring tools, on the latter there are at last count over 100 products in the social media monitoring business. Reputation is what other people think about me (my authority).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 30, 2021

The logic is simple; GMB profile sends social signals to the search engine and sends traffic to the business website. Reviews on the profile work as social proof. Tag the location on Maps, select a category, and add a phone number as well as a website URL. Adjusting location in Maps, as well as the knowledge graph, becomes easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Here’s how we use oAuth to integrate the user’s social graph. Here’s how users can show their friends what products they want to buy – let’s call that social shopping.&#. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Here’s how a user exports all of their data to a CSV file.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A growing trend in the online shopping category is social shopping. Both add a social layer to the online product discovery experience. The Gifts Project takes the concept of social shopping and applies it specifically to group gifting. The advantage of being able to reach out to one’s social graph is compelling.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We are certainly not abandoning CRM as a pillar of our positioning, we are recognizing that there is a more expansive vision to aim for, one which borrows on the lessons and capabilities of CRM while more fully embracing a next generation of social technologies that don’t exist exclusively in the context of master data and transaction records.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

In a blog post after the release of their new “ Graph Search ” application, Facebook encouraged business’s to “continue to invest” in their pages and keep them up to date so as they will show higher up in search results in Facebook’s new feature. To attract business you will need: A good social media presence. If You Liked This Post.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. That creates some interesting social barriers to entry. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. I learned about Svpply at Brooklyn Beta.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. That creates some interesting social barriers to entry. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. I learned about Svpply at Brooklyn Beta.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2021

These answer boxes used the Knowledge Graph to show a box that answered a search query. A knowledge graph panel for “Internet Marketing,” including a “People also search for.” For relevant phrases that don’t make it into the title, tags can help. Don’t go overboard with your tags. That’s not by accident. FAQ schema.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Use time series and use graphs – Produce the standard of what you want to report to the board in terms of business performance and produce the same thing every time. I suggest you try your best to keep the dinner social rather than an extension of the board meeting. 3. Have a standard pack.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

But notice how the four-minute marker on that graph doesn’t show much decline? Another no-brainer strategy you should use is Social Media sharing. Tag any friends you think might be interested in the piece of content. Because doing so won’t just encourage the people you tagged to look at the article.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid – founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

price tag squeezed out by BlackBerry represented *over half* of the actual cash reserves it had sitting on its balance sheet. However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. Here’s my quick analysis with respect to two major recent technology exits: BlackBerry Acquires Cylance For $1.4B. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The graph on the left shows results from a Hubspot study about blogging and visitors. Here are the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week relevant to small business.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A quick note of caution: As you play with the Keyword Planner, you'll bump into a graph like this one for your selected keyword or ad group ideas. Other than giving you some sense for traffic, this is not a relevant graph. It shows Google's estimate of how many possible clicks you could get at a particular cost per click.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 17, 2010

Regardless of the technology, these companies are all trying, with different angles here or there, to make the inbox experience more interesting, relevant, productive, and in many cases, tied into your “social graph” and/or third-party web content. In the meantime, I’ll say three cheers for innovation in the email space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 5, 2010

Just a short post here but I haven’t seen as many companies embracing the Open Graph yet outside of the initial partners. Check out the bottom of the page to see how Yelp is integrating the Open Graph. I can’t wait for more companies to embrace the Open Graph social connections on their website.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 17, 2010

Jeff Hilimire, Engauge’s Chief Digital Officer, discusses the RapLeaf Conference – social media influence, the social graph, and business-to-business potential. Stacy Cohen, Social Media Lead, discusses the pros and cons of how brands are engaging in the social space: Victoria’s Secret Facebook Limited Edition Exclusive Panty.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 27, 2010

Facebook announced their intentions of making the web a more social experience via what they are calling the Social Graph at their F8 conference last week. And I didn’t have to create a new social network on the site to connect with my friends and hope they all move over. No problem. ″ for 5 years now.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

But that price tag is a bit of a red herring since it assumes that there’s an intrinsic quality of Whatsapp which makes it worth that. Facebook has the advantage of having the best social graph and the highest engagement, which is very hard for someone else to break. For example, Whatsapp being worth ~$20B?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph Here’s What We Thought is you describing your initial set of hypotheses. A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Here’s What We Did.” “ Here’s What Happened.” is quite good.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2010

W ith the increasing socialization of the web there is an opportunity for publishers to improve the experience of their visitors by integrating functionality powered by third-party services. The focus is on general content enrichment which includes, but is not limited to, social functionality. It seems to be working.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 11, 2010

I’ve blogged about Tungle , along with some other apps/sites I am playing with, but essentially its a social calendar service. Marc pointed out that if you think about it, your true social network, your true friends, the people that you actually want to connect with, can most likely be found in your calendar. Novel idea, huh.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. ► May (2) Undoing Your Social Training and Creative Inhibiti. Tags: startupcto. This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. The RightAWS gem makes interacting with SimpleDB pretty easy.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 12, 2011

I finally got tagged in enough photos on Shoppybag to give it a try… here’s the problem, their user experience leaves so many unanswered questions that I simply gave up. This is a great example of how poor UI decisions drive new user abandonment in applications that depend on access to a social graph.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 25, 2010

Focused on the Open Graph and various implications, including privacy, that come with that. Social Games. The last section was on social gaming. don’t let analytics or the lack of being able to fully quantify the results of social media efforts stop you from doing them. First I talked about Facebook. Lifestreaming.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 14, 2010

NY Times – a) they don’t charge and they should, b) no location-aware functionality and c) you can’t filter news by your social graph. Tags: Mobile Social Marketing/Media app branding sxsw. AMG Mercedes – just an extension of the website, nothing smart about it. GTI Real Racing game – 99.9%

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Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

Postulate a good enough reason to use Social Media (not just because everyone is doing it). From garbled urls to missing title tags to poorly linked internal pages to missing site maps. I got special graphs, images, wonderfully formatted word documents… so much. so amazing!). Obsess about SEO. It was so nice.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Anyway the point of this post is really just to riff on the data from simplyhired , as per the graph above. Tags: startupcto. The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative.

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