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Browser maker Opera has released its 2012 State of the Mobile Web report which measures social networking popularity by looking at the number of Opera Mini users who visit them. Data is aggregated from the servers powering the browser's data compression -- enabling the company to build up an (anonymous) picture of the mobile social web across more than 190 countries.
Conducting personal shopping online while at work seems like even more of a slap to the company's metaphorical face than catching up with old school mates on Facebook.
But, apparently, a lot of organizations don't actually care. At least anymore. That's according to a recent survey from staffing [...]
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel's third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero in 2010.
ClickBank's affiliate system does have an important and frustrating limitation - namely that all your affiliates must link to the same exact landing page. This is usually fine if you are only selling one product, but is a serious problem if you want to sell multiple products and want to have product-specific landing pages that your affiliates can link directly to. We are pleased now to offer a solution to this conundrum.
Ever had one of those blogging or internet business questions that you wanted to ask, but didn’t know WHO to ask? Or, if you asked somebody, you felt like you were bugging them and being annoying? Well, I’m inviting you to ask. A few days ago, it dawned on me to add a new thing [...]
From smartphones to desktop computers, people are using more devices more often to access the web. The shift to mobile web browsing has happened rapidly, and ComScore predicts that mobile web users will surpass fixed web users by 2014.
Vancouver's Mobify has been been wrestling with how to best [...]
One important component of running a good business is ensuring that employees actually want to work for you. Chief executive officer Ryan Holmes has that element covered on all bases with his company, HootSuite.
Last night Vancouver-based HootSuite was named the Best Company to Work For in BC [...]
I’ve got another tip for you today on how to get higher open rates on your email. And it works particularly well if you use video and here’s why. Aweber uses a tracking image to actually track open rates. So, there’s a little invisible image in the email like, 1×1 pixels – that’s a little transparent image. [...]What are the two most things that you can do improve your success - to get more sales or leads?
You can try to get more visitors ("traffic") to see your pitch page, sales letter or squeeze page. Of course, that is important, and must be done - but it's hard work.
And the one that the pro's do but amateurs neglect - you can try and improve the conversion rate of your page - that is to increase the percentage of visitors who buy your product or sign-up to your mailing list.
I don’t know about you, but I see photos of those people trampling each other into the stores… or camping out in front of Best Buy… and I get such a huge chuckle. Its like, don’t they have ANYTHING to do with their lives? They obviously don’t place much value on their own time. Plus, [...]As you probably know, we offer software at CoverFactory.com for creating eBook cover graphics and box shots. That is, the 3D-style graphics that are often used to represent eBooks or downloadable software. Here are some videos showing how to use the software.
Answers 2000 is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated version, 3.00, of our PHP Top Site script. The script offers a powerful means
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One of the things that we all want with our email list is high open rates. We want to know that when we send out an email that the highest percentage of our list as possible will actually open it. Now, one of the things to keep in mind is that systems like Aweber use [...]
Have you ever had the experience where you’re about to leave town on vacation, or business trip or something… and all of a sudden you get a lot done right before you leave? Now, recently I just went through a whole remodeling and we just moved. Literally, as I’m recording this… just yesterday we moved [...]Answers 2000 is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated version, 3.00, of our PHP Click/Counter script. The script is the ideal solution for marketers wanting to track their traffic and marketing campaigns, and includes the ability to operate unlimited ad trackers. unlimited invisible web visitor counters, conversion-rate measurement tools for sales-letters, and split-testing tools for multiple sales-letters. The latter is particularly important as it provides a powerful and easy-to-use method of splitting testing multiple sales letters or squeeze pages so as to produce the best results.
Hey there Academy readers! David here. The last 12 days, I’ve been remodeling and, just yesterday, we moved to a different house. So, needless to say, it has been INSANE. And, for that reason, I simply haven’t had the time to create any new content for the blog personally. But, not to worry. Today (and [...]
A mastermind combines the resources of several individuals to come up with solutions and strategies. In this interview, James has a chat to his co-host from FreedomOcean Timbo Reid (who also runs the successful Small Business Big Marketing podcast). Having recently joined SilverCircle, Tim is in the process of creating and running a powerful marketing mastermind. [...]The post How To Create A Mastermind appeared first on Internet Business Blog By James Schramko.
LeadPlayer sets itself apart from other video players by working with most plugins and offering an effective, unobtrusive way of building contact lists and generating revenue through video. In this discussion James Schramko and LeadPlayer co-founder Clay Collins discuss the some of the secrets behind the software’s success. James Schramko and Clay Collins Highlights of [...]The post James Schramko and Clay Collins Discuss The Success Of LeadPlayer appeared first on Internet Business Blog By James Schramko.
James Schramko and Consulting Tycoon Kyle Tully discuss how local business owners today must recognise the major role played by the Internet in marketing. You can offer guidance to these businesses about having a successful online presence. Perhaps you can also make a living as a business services consultant…. James Schramko and Kyle Tully In this [...]The post How To Build A Successful Online Services Consulting Business appeared first on Internet Business Blog By James Schramko.If you haven’t heard, Google recently announced this Disavow tool inside the Webmaster Tools system and it basically allows you to make it so that Google does not count incoming links to your site from certain places. The idea is that when low quality links are affecting your rankings, you have the ability to get [...]
I want to make a little bit of a commentary about bloggers who are using list posts constantly. Now, in blogging circles, it’s often thought that list posts are the thing to do. Because they get shared, people like to read them, they like to get in and out, they like to get their quick [...]
James Schramko talks to Tim Conley from Foolish Adventure about how you can turn your content into cash even if you are just starting out and with minimal budget…. Tim Conley Action Steps From This Podcast listen to the whole podcast before you start start with a business purpose mindset approach find a need you [...]The post Turning Content Into Cash with Tim Conley & James Schramko appeared first on Internet Business Blog By James Schramko.