Finally figured out how to use an FTP client to upload files to a hosted server. Good to know. Sat Jul 31 01:28:52 2010 via txt In a world of over abundant content creation, value will flow to the curator. -Jeff Jarvis on Peter Day’s Business World Fri Jul 30 11:04:03 2010 via web Wikipedia […]
There is a battle brewing between the social media “purists” and the social media realists as to how important measurement of social media ROI is. This was brought up at the recent Social Media Club Seattle event when social media legend Jason Falls took the stage to argue for social media pragmatism. He made a
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In Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh describes his journey in building Link Exchange which sold for about $200 million and Zappos which was recently acquired by Amazon for about $1 billion. The book is written like an autobiography and is very honest and open. You learn some interesting things about him like how he
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I’m an online marketer and web editor in Seattle and co-founder of Sparkplug Digital, a Seattle online marketing agency that helps clients optimize their sites to attract more qualified visitors that turn into customers. [Read More] I blog regularly at Cool Marketing Stuff and The Marketing Spark.
I am currently reading Delivering Happiness which discusses how Tony Hsieh applied principles of happiness to build a billion dollar company, so I wanted to revisit some of the recent happiness research that is really fascinating. Here are my favorite presentations on happiness research. Watch it on Academic Earth Lecture on Happiness by Dacher Keltner
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Last week, the Seattle Chamber held the Smart + Simple Strategies for Small Business conference which featured author and psychologist Rom Brafman. Brafman co-wrote the book Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior and just released a new book, Click: The Magic of Instant Connections. If you are a small business in Seattle, I highly
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One of the key indicators that an SEO campaign is moving the needle for your business is the return on investment. According to Investopedia ROI is calculated by the formula: (Gain from investment)-(Cost of investment)/(Cost of investment) While it can be difficult to measure the exact amount of value that is generated from a specific
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Just received a copy of Age of Conversation 3: It’s Time to Get Busy. I wrote a page from the last 2 editions of Age of Conversation. This year my chapter is titled “How to Convince Your Boss on the Importance of Blogs”. Check out Age of Conversation 3 at Amazon. There are about 200
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