Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com wrote today about a service that sells fans for 10 cents. On the surface, sounds great, right? You could have 10,000 fans for only $1,000. But wait a minute. What share of those fans are based in the US? Probably very little, since the unsold inventory is for Turkey, Chile, India, […]
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You’ve heard about the rise of Farmville on Facebook– 63 million users and growing, representing 20% of Facebook’s users, not to mention that Facebook represents 25% of pageviews in the United States. But have you considered how game dynamics are beginning to permeate your life and that of your friends in ways that aren’t directly
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I get pitched a ton of ideas and most of them are pretty good. No doubt, it’s a GREAT idea! Odds are that it might not be truly unique, as is typical in web entrepreneurship. However, the winner in the space is the first to properly execute. No experience founding a company before, don’t have
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Ever gone into AdWords and seen stuff you hadn’t seen before? Google likes to keep releasing these features and not telling anyone about them– maybe to keep us on our toes or to use the general public for beta testing? Anyway, a couple of days ago, I blogged about sitelinks in AdWords— that you can
Sitelinks in Google PPC Ads– You don’t want to miss this! Read More »
We were doing a PPC audit for a home security reseller and noticed that the #1 paid spot has 4 site links below the ad. We’ve always known that you can get up to 8 site links if you’re the #1 search result and have sufficient authority. But to see these in paid search? Note
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Some affiliates are losing millions per month, I’m told, as a result of my TechCrunch post. And Shoemoney has not been shy about his willingness to write blog posts for money. If someone is about to ‘topple an industry’ (highly unlikely), one strategy is to trash his credibility and scare him into not writing anymore. But
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Borrell Associates predicts that in 2009 local online advertising will hit $14.2 billion, while in 2010 will be only $14.9 billion– a measly 5% increase. I would agree that local online ad dollars are not going to grow in the near term— the reason not being hyper-competitiveness, but the exact opposite. Ad dollars on Google
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Between my personal blog and that of Content Factory, we’ve gotten about 23,000 hits in the last 24 hours. The TechCrunch Effect is when TechCrunch covers your site, typically on launch day, and brings it down from massive traffic. And you often generate media buzz, with many companies then being acquired. Fortunately, we didn’t go
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It’s bad enough that there are over 60 million users (including me) wasting real time and real money growing virtual crops to earn virtual points. A new article in TechCrunch blows the doors on an industry that is set to generate over a billion dollars in 2009 (source: Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook.com). Look out for
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There are 540 million directories printed in the United States each year. That’s 1.7 directories per person, assuming just over 300 million people living in the US. There is not one “yellow pages” company, so it’s many companies printing many books. The average yellow pages book weighs 3.62 pounds. Multiply that by the 540 million
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