Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Be careful what you post!
Merlin Mann talks about how to blog
Small business? You need to offer Paypal
Showing product descriptions in context
How free content can boost sales
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
BOGOF? Invented by Mr. Wedgewood, the world's first marketer.
Sell to your demographic, like Dove.
Internet Retailer's Hot 100 Web Sites.
Interesting uses of Video in E-Commerce.
How to socially network if you have been laid off.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Top 40 online retail satisfaction index - vendors seem stuck in the 70's. I wonder what it's going to take to move them to the 90's?
Designing a shopping cart page (or "review" page).
Small business trends for 2009
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Chris Brogan's 27 Blogging Secrets (and his "Using the Social Web To Find Work" e-book).
Fortune Magazine's 21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008.
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Frustration Free Packaging
MAP and Online Retail
Top 100 Ad Campaigns of the last century
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Top 100 Marketers of 2008 (and here's a list of their twitter ids)
40 Shopping Carts from Elements of Design
Web Techniques that build market buzz (hint: video)
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Hard work and hustle will get us out of the New Millennium Economic Crisis. From his most recent missive:
If you're a rich person looking to take a couple of years off, don't.
Instead, start a company that creates an amazingly innovative product
that the world--not just the United States--needs. Set the goal ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar sums it up in The Times of India:
"In 2007, (Obama) voted to reduce visas issued to foreign workers (such as Indian software engineers)"
By contrast,
"(McCain) has opposed federal curbs as well as private curbs on outsourcing to countries like India."
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I thought this article on Marketplace about e-fencing was interesting. My suspicion is that Steve DelBianco is correct and that much of the hand-wringing about this is motivated by the desire to eliminate competition.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
We've been through the gender wars of the 80's and the culture wars of the 90's. Is the next battlefield intergenerational conflict? Clay Collins somehow managed to convince the usually sensible Penelope Trunk to post this absurd screed called "Why my generation is more productive than yours." ...
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