Social media marketing and social lead generation are the most effective ways to drive visitors and potential customers to your site. However, you can only take advantage of these visitors if you have an effective landing page. An effective landing page will make your whole marketing campaign come together and click.
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SOPA Threatens Internet Freedoms, Innovation and the Economy
Congress goes head to head with tech-giants and the average Internet Joe in fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Everyone from Obama to your local start-up thinks SOPA will paralyze connectivity, innovation and Internet commerce.
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The popularization of social networks transformed us from a society of passive media consumers into a highly segmented culture of content generators and on-demand end-users.
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Its a new year and a great time to talk about goals and balance. If you are like me your work is always with you. You wake up and check email on the computer, if you are not near the computer the iPhone or Blackberry is always in reach. As digital information because more accessible so does communication.
Continue readingAre Deal Sites a Good Deal for Merchants?
With over 600 group buying and deal sites in operation, businesses have more platforms to choose from than ever before. But, before they jump into forking over 50 percent of deal revenues to sites like Groupon, merchants need to rethink whether or not discounted deals are the best way to optimize customer acquisition and breed loyalty.
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The term ‘feature rich’ and ‘experience poor’ is often cited when comparing products like Microsoft Word to Flickr. Most consumers use about 5% of the features available in Microsoft Word. Flickr, the photo sharing site, actually started as a multi-user game. The photo sharing they introduced was so well liked by their users that they realized they were on to something and Flickr was born.
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