Yodle and Ambassador, both out of NYC, were featured in a Kelsey Group press release. Yodle was founded by a friend of a friend of mine and just raised $10MM. And ReachLocal’s $300MM valuation is insane. Funny that these guys, Orange Soda, Webvisible, LocalLaunch, Marchex, and other folks are getting into the local advertising game, […]
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Lee Scott in his annual address to the National Retail Federation, noted that in the latest focus group of young shoppers, “Every one of them had given something up, and they were talking about how good they felt about doing that.” Thus, he doesn’t see a rebound in sales any time soon. Look at your
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I first heard of Yodle about 4 years ago, back when it was called NatPal, by Nathaniel Stevens out of UPenn, a friend of Brad Twohig, who is our joint friend. Since then, I’ve seen the company grow from a few dozen clients to a reported 5,000, bring in a CEO (Court Cunningham), and a
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CNN.com reported a story where Larry Flynt and some other porn executives are asking Congress for a bailout. I suppose the folks making free porn are losing their shirts, literally? If the adult industry, one of the largest and most lucrative segments of internet traffic, is asking for a handout, then things must really be
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Here’s the response from an unhappy customer of ours on SocialMedia.com, when I ran the ad network there a year ago. Reminds me of the United Airlines customer who was so mad about United not responding to his issues– repeatedly– that he created untied.com. United’s management stance was that they should not respond to such
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At merely mentioning “Twitter skins” in an earlier blog post, this blog ranks #2 and #3 in Google for searches on “Twitter skins”. And that natural search result drove 8 visitors yesterday, of which several decided to take me up on my offer of a free skin. This is a great example of the positive
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Have you seen YSlow? It is a Firefox plugin that extends Firebug’s functionality to show some interesting information, such as page load times, and the heaviest parts of the site. You can use the information gathered to increase performance on your sites. Here’s an 8-minute video presentation on YSlow by Jeremy Zawodny, who was at
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For those who haven’t seen this before, a hilarious view of what Facebook might look like in 20 years. But the real question is– what will we folks who are in our 20’s and 30’s be doing when we’re 50 or 60? Will we be using social networks to find discount caskets? We’ll still need
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How about making a resolution to not make any more resolutions? Seriously, when you example instances of when people fail versus succeed, a few key traits stand out. I’ll explain at the end of the article– but first… I read a study where patients were told by their doctors that if they didn’t stop smoking
New Years resolutions that don’t fail– and your way out Read More »
There’s been recent debate from folks like Jim Cramer and Business Week on whether Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. Of course, it is! You don’t have your own account that holds the deposits you make. The money you put in now is used to pay off people who joined earlier. The number of people
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