- The future is relevance
December 20, 2010
Note: this article was originally posted in ClickZ.
After attending the Web 2.0 conference a few weeks ago, it’s clear that the future is about relevance. Digital marketers today are discussing sev...
- Is Your Best Content “Stuck” Inside Your Company?
January 11, 2011
Towards the end of last year, I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Joe Chernov, the Director of Content from Eloqua. I have been impressed with what they are doing in terms of...
- Google Changes Display URLs for AdWords Ads
January 11, 2011
Google will be changing the way display URLs look in AdWords ads in the next week or so. The domain portion of the display URL will always be showing in lowercase letters. For example, Subdomain.Exa...
- 20+ stats you might not know about user search behaviour
January 11, 2011
Natural search vs. Paid search
When asked if they know the difference between natural and paid search results...
63% said Yes
37% said No
The age demographics of those who did know the difference be...
- What's the Future of Mobile Search and SEO?
January 11, 2011
Posted by randfishTheres no doubt that mobile and, by extension, local search is hot. Technology pundits have been declaring every year since 2005 The Year of Mobile - that magical moment when everyon...
- The Crossover Cloud
January 11, 2011
I’m guessing that most of you who read this will never have stared quizzically into the front grill of a midnight blue Ford Edge and thought “a-ha, that’s the perfect analogy”. True ? I though...
- The cloud/hosting Magic Quadrant audience
January 11, 2011
Simon Ellis over at LabSlice has posted a blog entry in which he notes that the recent Cloud IaaS and Web Hosting Magic Quadrant has, in his words, “an obvious bias towards delivering ‘enterprise?...
- 100 Job Openings in the Windows Azure Group and What They Say About Steve Ballmer's Latest Move
January 11, 2011
Steve Ballmer is not shy about switching out management of the Windows Azure group. First we saw Ray Ozzie leave Microsoft. He left after Windows Azure became part of Bob Muglia's responsibilities. No...
- PHP Platform-as-a-Service Startup Nabs $1.8M in New Funding
January 11, 2011
PHP Fog, a PaaS (platform as a service) startup for PHP developers, has just secured a $1.8 million Series A led by Madrona Venture Group and joined by First Round Capital, Founders Co-op and other...
- As Quora takes off, it demonstrates the network effect
January 11, 2011
“The genius of these companies is that their users do most of the work and create most of the value; once the ball is rolling, it’s the users who keep pushing it along.”
That li...
- 2011 Predictions for Cloud, SaaS, Multi-Tenancy and More!
January 10, 2011
OK, it’s already 2011 and I’m a bit late on providing some predictions for 2011 – but now is better than never! I sat down and thought about events in 2010 and whether those events have created...
- Pricing Strategy: Focus On Value Exchange
January 10, 2011
Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge...
- Influencer Identification Just Got A Kick In The Pants
January 10, 2011
Just a few short years (almost months) ago, you could count on one hand the number of companies with tools specifically built to determine influencers. While a few exist now, the not...
- 2011 to be a big year for Microsoft in ERP
January 10, 2011
Microsoft officials said on January 10 to expect a new version of its Dynamics AX ERP product (codenamed AX 6) to ship in the third calendar quarter of 2011. This means if Microsoft holds to its curre...
- Windows Azure and the IaaS Context (or lack thereof)
January 10, 2011
TweetWindows Azure has several primary competitors in the IaaS Realm, even though they aren’t technically an IaaS Cloud Provider at all. Some of these competitors in this space are Amazon Web Serv...
- Does using social media really lead to higher margins?
January 10, 2011
According to the latest survey research from the McKinsey Global Institute, it does. Of course, this is fantastic news for all those – including myself – who have spent the last few years evangeli...
- 7 tools to monitor your competitors’ traffic
January 10, 2011
“Heavy Traffic” by Masakazu “Matto” Matsumoto on Flickr
Just how accurate are Alexa, Compete, Quantcast the others?
This is part of our ongoing series on website optimiz...
- GSI Commerce’s Global Marketing Services Division Acquires ClearSaleing to Expand Offerings in Advertising Analytics and Attribution
January 10, 2011
PRESS RELEASE ClearSaleing’s Innovative Technology Enables Marketers to Plan, Measure and Optimize their Online Media Campaigns KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--JANUARY 11, 2011 -- GSI Commerce Inc. (Nasdaq: G...
- The Three R’s of Creating Great Content: Reduce, Release and Repurpose
January 10, 2011
The easiest, by far the most natural (and for many people) the most effective way to promote a business is by creating and distributing great content. Be it a link bait, social media outreach or guest...
- The future of interactive advertising
January 10, 2011
With the end of the year past, and the countless Top-10/100/etc. lists gone, the online media machine has turned to predictions for 2011 - offering ‘what’s next’ in terms of digital.
Over on Quo...
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