Aaronontheweb

Avatar Went Hot: April 11, 2008 - 11:26 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.conversationmarketing.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Ah, youth. 13 years ago I started my company with a spare room in my house, a credit card (limit: $1500) and a computer (Pentium 75 mhz, Windows 95). If I'd known then what I know now, would I have gone into this business? I don't know. But here's s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Blogging
Lee Odden recaps what looks like a good session at the Media Relations Summit. HP, Kodak, and Fast Company (Scoble) had speakers talking about how they approach business blogging. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aaronontheweb 267 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingcharts.com)
Category: Social Media
From the page: "The participation of wealthy online consumers in social networks dramatically increased to 60% in 2008, from 27% in 2007, according to The Luxury Institute’s latest WealthSurvey, 'The Wealthy and Web 2.0.'" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 1:15 pm
Posted By: Wiep 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Andy Beal guest posts at Mashable, where he outlines ten tactics that could prevent your company suffering its own online reputation meltdown. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aaronontheweb 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketing-ninja.com)
Category: Blogging
80% (84%, actually) of the time spent on blogs comes from 20% of the audience, a comScore study finds; this presents an opportunity to develop a unique audience for your blog. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 3:01 am
Posted By: ANOnym 268 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jayweintraub.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Jay describes how Google disables accounts automatically, based on some imperfect algorithms. He and his friend got his Google AdWords accounts disabled because Jay's account was seemingly linked to a bad one and his friend's keywords were irrelevan read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 11, 2008 - 11:05 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.guykawasaki.com)
Category: Other Social Media
In social media, marketers need to understand where their brands intersect with the passion points of their consumers. But ultimately, they need to empower consumers to express themselves via their connection to the brand. In most cases, brands can read more »
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Avatar Posted By: meganion 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.postclickmarketing.com)
Category: SEM
The latest eMarketer email just came through my inbox and caught my attention with the article Direct Marketers Bullish on Online Ads.

It started off well enough, reporting that while marketing budgets may shrink in more places in 2008, many mark read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AgentVIP 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.andyrew.com)
Category: Usability
If a potential RSS subscriber visits your page, how do you get them to subscribe.. rather than scare them away? Very subtle differences can make a reader self-consciously lean one way or another. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Posted By: socialmedia 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://social-media-optimization.com)
Category: Bookmarking
A look at the demographics of the top 10 social bookmarking sites read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aaronontheweb 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketing-ninja.com)
Category: Link Building
"Linkbait works well at drawing in new readers, because linkbait posts have efficient headlines and readily digestible content, like lists. However, they get old, and some readers like myself, find that linkbait posts have little to offer after a wh read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aaronontheweb 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketing-ninja.com)
Category: SEM
Sphinners I want your feedback. A new Country Music site wants to differentiate itself from the two major players yet position itself visibly on Google/Yahoo/MSN under similar terms. Can it be done? Does this client have a clue? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rossdunn 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
A friend of Loren Baker's works for Yahoo and now has been let go today as more pink slips were delivered.

Sadly the Yahoo carnage continues. Good luck to all the bright minds out there! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 3:19 pm
Posted By: nickycakes 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Blogging
The short version:

Shoemoney lies a lot.
Shoemoney trashes an undeserving affiliate network.
Shoemoney gets called out on wickedfire.
Shoemoney sends C&D to wickedfire. (and cries more) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 9, 2007 - 10:23 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 391 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Sometimes a well written article or blog post, or a ‘giveaway’ can result in tens of thousands of visitors in a day, along with organic links from their blogs or social news sites and forums. But what happens when your link bait is too good? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: onreact 392 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Water Cooler
How I met Tim O'Reilly and saved 1000$ on one day. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 9, 2007 - 7:05 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 392 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ajaxninja.com)
Category: Other Social Media
We've seen quite a few StumbleUpon article compilations recently. Aaron shares with us his own collection of great StumbleUpon articles and categorizes them for easy reading. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2007 - 3:14 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 392 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: News Sites
Tamar calls out Kevin Rose and has the links and screenshots to back it up.

Seems like every time I start to like digg a little bit, I learn a little more to change my mind.... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2007 - 2:30 am
Posted By: wolftrust 393 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://courtneytuttle.com)
Category: Networking
Courtney Tuttle goes step by step with "what I was screwing up before my breakthroughs." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 6:14 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 393 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Other Social Media
What's going on with social media websites in recent days? Bugs, technology issues, and hacks - oh my! A look at the last four days of patterns found related to social media technology disruptions. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2007 - 11:50 pm
Posted By: PocketSEO 422 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://pocketseo.com)
Category: Social Media
Jason Calacanis wrote that social media optimization (SMO) is "the worst thing I’ve ever heard of". A quick look at Mahalo.com on Digg makes it seem like Mahalo.com is quite active with social media optimization. It's easy to say that "Anyone who read more »
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Avatar Posted By: TimDineen 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.billhartzer.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Bill Hartzer analyzes an online reputation management survey by The Creative Group.

"Results from a new survey reveals that half of all employers surveyed said that they search online for information about prospective hires at least some of the t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Aaronontheweb 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Blogging
With the increasing number of people turning to blogs, it is no surprise that companies have also started recognizing its use as powerful marketing tools. And apart from just helping to spread the word, blogs can also serve as a way to communicate d read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DoshDosh 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.michelfortin.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Copy is a fantastic industry because it's gender-free. (It's also color-free.) But the moment we suddenly realize the author's sex, our judgment becomes biased somewhat. Even though it's been 130 years since George Sand, many people still cling to t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: getvisible 423 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.leemccoy.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
I'm a firm believer in the benefits of social media and bookmarking into search engine algo's. But am I missing something? read more »
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