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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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The joke we had when I worked at American Airlines is that it’s amazing how much money someone will pay for a free ticket. They’ll even fly unnecessary segments at the end of the year just to keep their premium status or buy a significantly more expensive item for the miles. Enter Amazon.com’s Prime program.
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But I am still going anyway. The terrorists seek to stop business and tourism from transpiring. Going to check out Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, and Chandigarh. Will be back in Boulder on December 12th. But hey– we have SMX Sydney in April 2010, featuring Dennis Yu and Gillian Muessig presenting together on metrics and PPC!
India conferences canceled, but Dennis Yu attends anyway! Read More »