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As you may know, Google's Matt Cutts regularly answers questions submitted by users via videos uploaded to Google's Webmaster Central YouTube Channel . Usually the questions and answers are helpful tips and explanations regarding the workings of Google and how webmasters can better accomplish some goal related to their sites' performance in the search engine. Occasionally, however, Matt will answer different kinds of questions, and sometimes more fun ones. This one falls into that category...
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I have a bad habit, when I’m using my personal Gmail account, of clicking on the most ridiculous-sounding PPC ads Google decides to serve me. I know, I need help One such ad brought me to a very tall landing page with the expected “sales letter” style copy. What struck…
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It only takes one guy to start a party.
In this humorous YouTube video that is quickly reaching viral status, one lone dancing man at the Sasquatch Music Festival in Washington starts a massive dance party – and a revolution.
Many are citing the Sasquatch Dancing Man – or “SDM” as some are calling him – as [...]
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Update: Microsoft has shared a letter written to Stanley Bing: Dear Bing (the Author), We couldn’t help sit up and take notice of your offer of services from one Bing to another. We were moderately surprised and mildly excited. As you might have guessed, today is quite a big day for us. Even so, we dropped everything when we saw your press release this morning. After an emergency meeting (three people were invited, all declined), we’ve decided to take you up on your offer. We’re...
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A man named Stanely Bing, who is a columnist for Fortune Magazine and a best-selling author, has issued a press release today expressing his "moderate outrage" at the branding of Microsoft's new search engine - Bing. Being how Stanley Bing (real name Gil Schwartz according to Wikipedia) is known as a "business humorist," one can only assume the release was issued with a sense of humor. In fact, the style of the release pretty much confirms that. Here's a sample: At the...
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In addition to tagging reviews, questions, answers, stories and other customer-generated content with descriptive codes like “CR” for references to competitors and “CS” for customer service issues, I am starting to think that our content moderators should apply “H” to content that could dramatically boost a product’s conversion rate (because after a fit of uncontrollable [...]
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Click here to view the embedded video. In my last post , I made use of a brick and mortar analogy to the current online behavior of some e-commerce Websites, and even recommended the use of those analogies when analyzing online persuasion strategies. And since at least a few readers responded positively to…
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I guess it was professional curiosity, but I actually clicked one of those facelift-in-a-bottle ads while visiting some blog. And hell if I wasn’t intrigued by the landing page’s sleaze-bag persuasive techniques. Take a look at the screen shot I took of the landing page. What do you think most caught…
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I have endeavoured in this Ghostly spoof of a little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their businesses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay…
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First, if you haven’t seen it yet, watch Microsoft’s response to Apple’s infamous “I’m a Mac” campaign. Click here to view the embedded video. Here’s the question: what do you want to bet that Apple has been just waiting - even itching - for Microsoft to release that kind of response to…
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I was firsthand witness to a clever promotion recently, so I’ll share in the hopes it inspires you to turn the Economy’s lemons into lemonade. Seattle’s Chow Foods runs six restaurants, and recently sent an email blast with an inventive promotion. The one-day promotion adjusted their menu item pricing based on the…
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There is nothing like social media to make people feel connected. However, that feeling can some times overwhelm people. Social Media Addiction (SMA) is a real concern. Please understand as a former counselor and social worker I have seen the… Related posts: Before Consistency in Social Media Marketing In “The Best Practices In Social Media Marketing Writing Project”,... Tapping the Power of Social Media to Advertise to Women Social media is exploding. Everyone's talking about the huge advertising... Transparency, Social Media and, God Forbid, the Truth Social media offers an unprecedented level of transparency. That's a...
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I have found that inventing, starting a business up,??and other entrepreneurially thingies follow the same emotional pattern??as your first roller coaster ride.
Step 1: I’m so excited I could just pee.
This is when you size up the ride. You’re caught in the moment considering the immense possibilities of your idea. The dizzying heights and speed you’ll [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Stella’s Startup Cycle", url: "http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/index.php/2008/10/15/stellas-startup-cycle/" });
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Entrepreneurs are different, that’s a common theme on Startup Nation.
We work differently. We think differently. And, by the looks of my Startup Nation profile pic, we dress and wear our hair differently. But, maybe that’s just me.
A case in point: I went shopping with my friends. They’re your average corporate hard-charging, salary-seeking, bonus-pimping 40-hour-a-weekers.
Now, as we [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An Entrepreneur’s Day Out or Why I Shop Alone", url: "http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/index.php/2008/10/13/an-entrepreneurs-day-out/" });
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Rich has asked what would the first thing my assistant would do.
Unfortunately, the first things my assistants have done was to start mucking things up. The second thing they do, once they’re good and trained, is leave.
What I would like is an Evil Assistant. Sort of a Voodoo assistant. If I had an evil assistant, here are [...]
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