Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

I’ve been promoting tools like Google Alerts and Google Reader for years now and today Google added something called “ Me on the Web &# as an attempt to make it easier to monitor your identity on the web. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Find Someone Who Knows If you’re asking this question, then it seems your first order of duty should be finding someone who can consult your hiring process. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). conference happened at the end of 2004). Congrats! .

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. The idea of marketing domain registration and web hosting to everyday people was unheard of at the time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. All rights reserved.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? Apocalypse , near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

From a local business standpoint it gives Google another lever into the transaction while adding functionality for both buyer and seller. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 31, 2010

My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail , bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their fans much easier. This would be like having Google AdWords, banners, video advertising, etc that we have now, but with the entire world accessible to target with media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 1 You should be doing what so many of your competitors are NOT doing – turning your attention toward building excitement around yourself and your brand. Otherwise, yeah, nice Web site, dude. No one cares. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 4 One of the most common forms of online marketing for small businesses is to have a website. The problem is, with today’s increasingly social and mobile web, a web site just isn’t enough. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud occurs when a pay-per-click advertisement is clicked on by a user with malicious or disingenuous intent. Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. Google Display Network). Click farms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1 And the future?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 3 The web is not a venue where, “if you build it, they will come.&# Spend some time discovering where your customers and people like them are hanging out on the web. You have to make sure your audience knows your website is there and that it can help them.

Web 36

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. That’s a mistake.

Software Review 49

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Scale the Wall Lots of companies out there want to provide apps for Facebook tabs and interactive welcome pages, but you must understand that the way people actually view your presence on Facebook is different than on, say, your Web site. You can also simply put out a call to Like your page through this option.

Small Business 78

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. Spend $$$, advertising. It is no wonder why VCs are quite excited about next generation web companies. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

Facebook is a social network, built from the ground up for that purpose, by a company that does nothing else. Google has produced a series of 11 videos that highlights the features on Google+ Below is a quick overview of the key features of Google+ Circles This is how Google wants to let you organize your network.

Small Business 70

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

You simply adds these search shortcuts in Google and you can slice and dice a web site up in hundreds of useful ways. link] Username Check – As social profiles become an important online asset it’s become important to check the availability of branded usernames across the growing universe of directories and networks.

SEO 69

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2011

Verishow – live chat and support tool that also let’s you launch an on the spot web meeting with a site visitor. Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a “bag&# to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

A number of web based technologies such as Poll Everywhere have cropped up of late making it very affordable to poll audiences by having them use SMS and their own mobile device. For an event, this technology requires that there is a web connection available, but you can also use this in print or other environments to collect data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2011

There is some vagueness in Google’s language about who will actually see your +1s – “And even if none of your friends are baristas or caffeine addicts, we may still show you how many people across the web have +1’d your local coffee shop.&# Even more speculation surrounds how Google will use this new data point.

Small Business 72

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2011

One element that I don’t see much movement in though is the typical About Us kind of page that we’ve all grown familiar with on most Web sites. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

The unfiltered nature of sharing stuff on Facebook and other social networks remains a business challenge. I think this is a tool that will be adopted and added to Web pages as thoroughly as the Like button as it presents some functionality that has long been missing. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

Administrative Professionals Day is April 27th and Supervisors, bosses and business-professionals can also express gratitude by nominating a standout administrative professional, colleague or peer from their LinkedIn Network into the American Express Recognize and Reward Sweepstakes at ForEverythingYouDo.com. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

mitinteractivetechdesign via Flickr There are two very big factors in the effectiveness of our marketing message, Web pages, and calls to action – the communication of a true benefit to the reader and the ability to get this benefit communicated without confusion. Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part.

Small Business 65

Small Business Marketing Social Media Web 65

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Shama Kabani Web and TV personality. As an active thought leader in the search marketing industry, he’s contributed to top industry publications such as Mashable, iMedia Connection and Yahoo Search Marketing Blog along with publishing TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog. Bestselling author. International Speaker. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 21, 2011

TweetPsych – creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and identifies those traits that are used more or less frequently by the user analyzed Tagaroo – WordPress plugin the analyzes your text as you type and suggest relevant tags from around the web and also suggest images from Flickr. All rights reserved.

Small Business 56

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 16, 2011

iPromote – somewhat freaky technology takes a look at the content on your Web site and instantly creates banner ads. Tout – Tool that makes it very easy to templatize, organize and track those routine emails that you use over and over again. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

We’ve swung so far over to the “information wants to be free” thinking that I believe it’s presenting a challenge for businesses and content consumers and the Web in general. 5 Reasons Free Is Hurting Us All The following originally appeared on American Express OPENForum. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Community 65

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction. Go here to learn more !

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark.

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Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation , is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. Pamela Slim Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. She is also an author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.

Atlanta 52

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

On the flip side, a business with great products and services, but no clear differeniator, will struggle to some extent no matter how brilliant their execution of the latest and greatest marketing tactics. In an effort to help illustrate the extent of the problem I challenge you to take the Pork Belly Test. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi. All rights reserved.

Social Media 51

Social Media Cofounder Small Business Engineer 51

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. You can try to buy your way in with ads, you can set up your web presence to grow your way in, and you can use social media to communicate your way in. Most of us are lucky enough to be in the want business, not the need business. How do you get to them?

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