If you don’t know what SmartLipo Denver means as a search term, then you’re likely not a 40-year-old female who wants to look a little better but is concerned about the effects of traditional liposuction– the potential scarring, cost, and downtime. Ok– enough shilling. There are a few cosmetic surgeons in Denver, though I can […]
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We’ve been selling discount caskets and headstones online. What’s interesting is that we do the PPC for a wrestling company, for which we bid on the term “undertaker”. Now which undertaker is the one that you’re searching for– the one that will bury your loved one or the one that will give you a body
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Google spring training Google Spring Training Paul, Larby, and I attended a spring training session for large advertisers at Google yesterday. Besides the free Google goodies, we learned some interesting facts and ways to grow our campaigns: 54% of all content revenue on the web comes from just 4 sites: MySpace, Yahoo, AOL, and YouTube.
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No, this is not a scam, Google is giving out free business cards to the first 10,000 folks that sign up to promote their new profiles product, but make sure you first have a Google profile that is set to Public. Better hurry before the offer is over. Cards will arrive in the next 10
Google and AmazingMail are both giving out FREE business cards Read More »
This week I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at Penn State’s GOMCHA class, taught by Jim Jansen and Daehee Park (who won last year’s contest)– thank you for the honor, guys! Daehee and Jim are coaching ten teams of five students, each team with a client that has $200 to spend on
Google Online Marketing Challenge 2009 Read More »
So says tweetvalue.com, which is one of many sites in the Twitter ecosystem. Yet I’d ask– how did it calculate the $286 and how do I go about redeeming that money? What’s my profile worth? As of March 22nd, I have 1,233 followers on Twitter and 188 updates. Perhaps a follower is worth about 20
My Twitter profile is worth $286- measuring influence on social networks Read More »
The beauty of sites like Hotwire and Priceline is that you can get a discounted price provided you are flexible about times, locations, and brands. In general, we have had a great experience booking hotels and run most of our conference business through them. This one time, we booked a 4-star hotel in Santa Clara
Hotwire is hot air Read More »
One of our co-founders, Dean Mao, won another coding competition, this time with WeekendApps on the OpenSocial platform. He doesn’t like publicity, but I thought I’d mention this feat anyway. He won a pass to the Google IO conference, 1 million banner ad impressions, and some conversations from two private equity guys who want to
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If you have a tripod, which of the legs is most important? Of course, they are all equally important– if you take any one of them away, the item being supported collapses. The same is true in hiring. Do you want smart folks, trustworthy folks, or hard-working folks? How about hiring an absolute genius who
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Pubmatic released a report covering the massive drop– Q408 average CPMs are at 26 cents. Before folks claim economic peril, let’s consider a few other factors. The mix of inventory for ad networks has shifted dramatically to social, which has historically terrible CPMs. From a weighted average perspective, it’s hard to say exactly the impact,
Display ad prices drop 50% in Q4 Read More »