Markets Are Falling + MORE 01/03/2013
It's not too dramatic, but some of the Clifforia we got on Monday and Wednesday is fading. US futures are a moderately lower. Spain is down 0.9%. Italy is off 0.3%. Germany is down 0.18%. All these countries had ridiculously big rallies yesterday, so this isn't too big of an issue. We get labor data.... More »
It's Official: Teens Are Bored Of Facebook + MORE 03/03/2013
Teenagers are a good measure of what's "cool." Observing which apps they use and how they interact with technology can help the rest of us spot budding trends. And lately it seems teens have grown tired of Facebook. Adam Ludwin recently launched a social photo album app called Albumatic. Befor.... More »
Nurturing Leads with Marketing Automation + MORE 01/25/2013
The sales cycle has changed. Customers are now doing more research prior to first contact with companies. This has altered how you approach lead generation and nurturing, with the emphasis placed more on the latter and less on the former. The goal is to create hot leads that salespeople can convert .... More »
Here's The Last Thing The NRA Tweeted Before The Newtown Massacre + MORE 12/15/2012
The National Rifle Association's Twitter account -- normally an active stream of pro-gun tweets -- has been silent for more than 24 hours in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that left 20 children and eight adults dead. The NRA was in the middle of a promotional giveaway con.... More »
OUCH: The EU Just Slashed Its Growth Forecast For The Euro-Area + MORE 02/22/2013
The European Union now expects GDP growth in the euro-area to fall 0.3 percent in 2013. Previously it estimated 0.1 percent growth. The EU is also forecasting 1.4 percent growth fro 2014. Markets, which have been up all day, aren't reacting significantly to the report. Please follow Money Game on Tw.... More »
How to Improve the Visibility of Your Marketing Videos
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Marketing videos are slowly becoming an integral part of every business’ online marketing strategy. With text starting to become out of style, and rich content very much in, it’s a smart way to engage your audience and be found online. While YouTube star Dollar Shave Club received over 7 million views with their first video, yours may be a bit slower to gain popularity – but not if you do it right.Search engines don’t read your videos like they read your text…
3 Twitter Tools to Enhance Your Marketing
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Are you looking for tools to help better manage your Twitter presence?Managing your Twitter presence along with your other online networks can be difficult if you have limited resources.In this article, you’ll discover 3 tools to make your basic Twitter marketing tasks easier.#1: Manage and Analyze Your Community with SocialBroEvery business needs at least one management tool to manage its Twitter presence, and there are many excellent Twitter management tools to choose from…
Why A British Politician Is Planning To Sue ‘At Least’ 10,000 Twitter Users
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Last month the BBC, embroiled in its own huge sex scandal, aired a segment on its premier nightly news show Newsnight that sought to lift the lid off a notorious sex abuse scandal, and reveal links to the upper echelon’s of British politics. The show — one of the most respected in British journalism — aired a number of accusations that linked a senior Conservative politician to a pedophile ring that operated out of homes for children in the 1970s, and had not been uncovered despite an inquiry into the abuse in the 1990s…
What FPS Games Can Teach You About Lead Generation
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FPS (or First Person Shooters) is a classification of games that is widely known by just about every type of gamer in the world. Examples of well-known titles of this gaming genre are Counter Strike, Call of Duty, and the ever popular Halo (of which has already reached its fourth installment in its franchise). What many did not know is that businesspeople can learn a thing or two about their business lead generation from looking at, or playing these games…Apple Investors Are Still Wusses
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After a meteoric rise, Apple’s stock is falling back to earth. At market close Friday, Apple’s share price had slipped to a little over $527. This after tumbling to $505.75 Thursday — some 28 percent off its September high of $705. That decline has shaved about $170 billion off the company’s market capitalization, which was headed toward $660 billion just two months ago. Click here to read more > Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook…
Analytics Show Facebook Curbs The Reach Of Big Brands’ Posts
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and “Star Trek” actor George Takei both complained recently that Facebook reduced the “reach” of their posts, limiting the number of fans likely to see any given post. More seriously, two executives at major social media agencies owned by WPP group claimed the same thing — only with data. In response, Facebook formally denied that it is “gaming” its Edgerank post algorithm to reduce the reach of posts (and thus force advertisers to pay to promote posts to reach all their fans)…
Embed YouTube as an Audio Player
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How do you embed only the audio portion of a YouTube video in your web pages. →A popular option would be that you extract the audio portion of that YouTube video and then use the Google MP3 player to embed that MP3 fil into your website. This will work but YouTube is very likely to have a problem with your approach.The other approach could be CSS based where you embed the regular YouTube video player and then use the magic of CSS styles to hide the video inside the embedded player…
Intel CEO Will Step Down (INTC)
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Twitter Is Pivoting
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Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006: “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace… Given that most of their traffic comes from us, if we build adequate if not superior competitors, I think we ought to be able to match them if not exceed them…