This is a guest post by David Gray of Analog.com, a leader in Electronic Components I once heard a wise young American English teacher compare the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean national characters to ceramic pottery and tea cups they produce in particular. A Japanese teacup is an extremely delicate, refined, and proportionately symmetrically formed china […]
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Remember a few weeks ago when Facebook allowed everyone to grab their own vanity url? Now they’ve just opened up the ability for you to choose a name for your pages, too. You just need 100 fans to be eligible. Just like you’d see in the domain grabbing world, the same thing is happening on
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Michael Jackson’s estate management challenge. What Would the King of Pop Want? The will itself is rather straightforward; the estate, however, is already proving to be a nightmare. A complex labyrinth of assets, music royalty rights, custody arrangements, creditors, lawsuits, and beneficiaries must be negotiated and it may be several years before the estate is
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We’ve been testing Google Template Center since November 2008. As you would imagine, if you want to multiply clones off a master template, this is the tool for you. You can create a master and then copy it over multiple times. So let’s say that you have a Denver laser surgeon and based on the
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We’ve spent the last 4 months porting our Google campaigns over to Facebook. Just like with AdWords, where you pay for clicks, but not impressions– one trick is to place your phone number in the ad. Some proportion of folks will call the number right from the ad, which gives you a free lead. What
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So much talk about Bing, but not much on their Local Listing Center. It’s much like Google Local Business Center, but a few key differences: Way less volume: Like organic results, we get about 1 click from Bing local results for every 20 Google local results. Not as sophisticated: You have to wait for the
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The folks at Webmaster Radio put on the first Affiliate Convention, ending just a few hours ago. Billed as “free for affiliates”, many said that the event wouldn’t happen, wouldn’t attract high-quality affiliates, and couldn’t secure a sponsor. Even Larby Amirouche was considering whether or not he was going to come. But when 10 of
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3 million users took their names last Friday in Facebook’s vanity url rush. But even bigger than that is grabbing the vanity URLs for your fan page(s), which opens up on June 28th. If you have at least 1,000 fans by May 31st, then you can grab them now. Likewise, if you’re a journalist or
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Golf-ball sized hail is coming down right now in Boulder– our yard looks like a driving range littered with hail chunks. As an internet marketer, instead of hearing hail pelting our windows, I hear clicks from people typing in “Denver hail damage”, as they need new roofs and car repairs. Shall we say there is
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The Space Needle is flooded in Orange light tonight, the color of Bing. A giant searchlight, reminding me of the Luxor, shone straight up the air for which the Microsoft spokesperson told me that they had to get a FAA permit to do. We saw helicopters circling the Space Needle to capture the epic moment
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