The Affiliate Summit West was held last week in Las Vegas at the Wynn Resort and had nearly 5,000 attendees. This is _the_ place where affiliate internet marketers meet to learn about the latest industry trends and to meet with new and existing marketing partners. The conference included an expo and “meet market” where dozens [...]
Today’s top stories with TechExposure’s unique commentary. US urges China to scrap Internet filter plan China presses on with its plans to monitor every piece of information passing thru Chinese computers. Can anyone say “Big Brother”? Microsoft Has Big Plans for Power-saving Tools Microsoft’s $9 billion research unit is coming up with ways to save [...]
Here’s a semi-exhaustive list of 1,201 site directories that will list your website or blog. Search engine optimization (SEO) theory suggests that a way to raise your website’s all-important Google page rank is to appear in many other websites. One of the easiest way to accomplish this is request for your site to be listed [...]
Here’s an article that discusses the new sentiment for investing in internet startups and the problems VCs are facing justifying seven-figure investments. Israel has more technology startups/companies listed on the Nasdaq than Canada! They are considered a bell-weather for investment activity. Venture capital is looking at Israel as an attractive place for investment in terms [...]
Hasn’t Twitter basically just replaced RSS? Instead of users looking at your latest blog post titles on your RSS feed, are they relying on you to Tweet each of your blog posts with links? Twitter is the easiest way to get your blog info out there to the masses, but at what point do you [...]
Every time you post a new story to your blog you should have a ritual of actions you take to ‘guerrilla market’ your blog. Without letting the world know you exist, it is nearly impossible to grow your reading population. Your post-blog ritual may include, Twitter, Digg, Propeller, & StumbleUpon. You should also be automatically [...]
Ever wonder how much your online business is worth? There’s a plethora of websites purporting to use some type of scientific algorithm to determine a website’s value. We’ve compared a few of these sites to varied results. 1.Website Value Calculator I asked how much Yahoo was worth, and the answer was 1.39 billion USD. Evidently, [...]
As an Adwords advertiser I received an email yesterday from claims at adwordscustomersettlement dot com This is the long-running class action suit filed by CLRB Hanson, and it names Howard Stern as one of the plaintiffs. Although the suit had reportedly been settled in preliminaries out of court for $20 million, this new email suggests [...]
Inspiration comes from within – It’s never too late! 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her first novel in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, at the age of 41. She had been in a major depression as it was only three years after her son had died from cholera. Within the first year of publication, the book [...]