Social sharing sites are freaking red hot right now. Over the past month, we’ve watched major tech companies shell out eye-popping stacks of cash to acquire hyperactive social apps… LinkedIn bought SlideShare for $119M, Zynga paid $200M for DrawSomething, and of course Facebook bought Instagram for a cool $1B. So what exactly is going on [...]
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Has you site recently dropped like a rock, right off the front page of Google? If so, a big, scary, rank-wrecking bird from Antarctica may be to blame. Yes, I’m talking about Google’s latest site-slapping update, codename: Penguin. So what did you do wrong? Ironically, many of the things you’ve done to boost your page [...]
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As the technology sector continues to pump out impressive growth quarter after quarter, there’s a ton of persistent chatter about the dark side… It’s mostly about an epic, big budget sequel called The Return of the Tech Bubble. With so many IPOs launching in the past year, most of them tech companies, it’s pretty easy [...]
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Only a few years ago, marketers had to build their online business from the ground up. Being a smarter marketer literally meant knowing the nuts and bolts of web design, marketing funnels, and user experience… But that’s no longer the case. Sure, those skills may be very helpful, but the ground-up model is NOT the [...]
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In all the theorizing I’ve read about social media’s big move toward artsy photography, I haven’t found one article, or even one blogger who’s really pulled back the curtain… So I’m just going to come out and say it. It’s ALL about product placement. The “visual revolution” as it’s being called, is a user driven [...]
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