The End of Privacy?

I reprint this article with Paul Myer’s permission. It comes from his newsletter Talkbiz. His newsletter is one of the rare email pieces I miss when I do not get it. But just read this issue by yourself: “The Portable Voyeur” =================== In the last issue, I put out the idea of looking at your [...]

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In Customer’s Shoes

Test with Adwords, Then Make Money with Twitter? Wrong! I used to think: Write a sales page, drive Google Adwords traffic, test it. With a decent conversion rate, start to drive serious traffic from social media, banner ads, etc. This is, what happened: Signup rate from people coming from my blog: 15% Signup rate from [...]

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Social Media are Powerful

It is easy for a government to block email or a website. And they know why they require internet and mobile phone providers to integrate the necessary equipment into their networks. But it is almost impossible to block communication thru Twitter, combined with YouTube and Facebook, as the Iranian government learnt last summer. Why is [...]

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Social Media and Search Engine Traffic

There are two types of traffic: Traffic which comes from internet users who find you thru search engines, or by following a link, paid or unpaid, to your site. Traffic coming from mailing lists or socal networks, which you can induce by sending an email to your list, or by making a post to facebook, [...]

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