April 14th 2007 Posted at Uncategorized
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When Shopping.com recently launched a product blog, Whatsinstoreblog.com it became apparent to me that blogs have a key merchandising role to play in online retail. It’s also apparent that this currently is an unfilled marketing niche for most merchants.
April 13th 2007 Posted at Acquisitions
Comments Off on Google Buys Doubleclick
Google just bought Doubleclick for 3.1 Billion in cash. What’s striking about this offer is that it beats Microsoft’s 2 billion dollar handily.
April 13th 2007 Posted at Review, Software
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Real estate agents are notoriously an unorganized lot. One company, Agent Organizer has their Real Estate Software to help deal with the issue.
April 12th 2007 Posted at Marketing
Comments Off on Under the Radar Guys
After reading Jeff Nolan’s post about the Myspace and Photobucket, I wandered over to Gigaom’s take on the matter. My own feeling is that if you are making money on someone else’s social network that you should be like Elmer Fudd, “Very very quiet.”
April 11th 2007 Posted at Review
Comments Off on Review of the AC Lens Affiliate Program
AC Lens is web based contact lens retailer. They have requested a review of their affiliate program. I often review affiliate programs for my readers since the first way they often get into ecommerce and making money online. I review their health affiliate program in this post.
April 10th 2007 Posted at Uncategorized
Comments Off on Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools – Time to Get Out of Alpha
Note to Google – Time to integrate the two tools I use the most at Google (except Gmail of course). I am pretty tired of logging into two seperate tools that really should be integrated or at least offer the ability to be integrated.
April 9th 2007 Posted at Design, Software, Startups, Stories
Comments Off on Coffeeshop Usability Testing
I now have roughly 5 months of data dealing with the beta test of my comparison shopping engine. In the short time it’s been up, with ZERO advertising dollars, it has achieved a Page Rank of 6 and an Alexa ranking of 150,000. That said I think there is room for serious improvement.
April 6th 2007 Posted at Blogging, Link Building
Comments Off on Protein Folding and the PS3 – Get a free link for being good!
I recently updated the firmware on my Playstation 3. The most recent firmware update includes the Stanford protein folding application.
April 5th 2007 Posted at Marketing
Comments Off on Mail List Management
A new company, Zookoda.com, has decided to bring email marketing to bloggers, making it comparatively easy for bloggers to integrate email campaigns directly into their blogs. Zookoda.com has a simple web based process for setting up email list management, broadcasts etc.
April 5th 2007 Posted at Blogging
Comments Off on Blogger’s Choice Awards!
The guys over at Pay Per Post are really promoting their blog awards. In the run up to Posticon 07 they are sponsoring a People Choice type awards site, called Blogger Choice.
