Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

2012 SOCIAL MEDIA CONFERENCES

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There are hundreds of trade shows across the globe. How do you know which ones best suit your niche? Here is a list of the top conferences for all of the social media  marketers in America. Good Luck and have a successful 2012.

10 Tips To Increase Work Productivity In 2012

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It’s a New Year and one of the best ways to get off to a good start, is to focus on making being more productive than the previous. Below are 10 tips to help us be more productive in 2012.

Google VS Amazon: Has Google Taken Over?

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Amazon and Google make millions of dollars a year and overall are worth billions. Both are the front runners to online sales and Ad revenue, and are now trying to expand on that. Whose efforts will have the most impact? It may sound like an irrelevant question because they sell totally different products. That was [...]

Affiliate Bites: U.S. Gov’t Looks Into Google Ad Rates for Microsoft, Privacy Perceptions, + More

» PRICE CHECK! Turns out Google’s ad rate for Microsoft is under some serious U.S. governmental scrutiny. [Bloomberg BusinessWeek] » Another piece showing that perhaps privacy online is simply in the eye of the beholder…and that data is not really as invasive as we might make it out to be. [Adotas] » Angling to exhibit [...]

Bonus Points: It’s Summer! Edition

Read what you didn’t have the time to during the week…at your own pace.

Affiliate Lunch: 41% Hate Netflix Now, Meet Market’s Sold-Out, + More

» Half-lives: Everything has one! Are you marketing your campaigns the best you can before they reach that point? Are they worth promoting further after that point. [Seth Godin] » Bad news if you didn’t act fast: The Affiliate Summit East Meet Market is sold out! Of course we booked our table. We’re table #24. [...]

Sina Weibo: Blocking a Potential Gold Mine for Google, Facebook, and Twitter

So in social media today, there are two totally competing narratives. On one side: Twitter’s getting the presidential treatment, Facebook had got users on pins and needles and hedging bets on a possible assist from Skype, and Google+ continues to find fanboys in a tizzy. On the other side: Celebrities like Tom Cruise and Sean [...]

AM Affiliate: Is Amazon Dropping the Ball on Fighting the Affiliate Tax? + More

» While affiliate marketers know well the value of money, what about the value of attention in an attention-based economy? After all, the value of attention will only continue going up as more marketers enter the fray. [Seth Godin] » Google+ could pick up the ball where Facebook dropped it: Corporate communications. [GigaOM] » Perhaps [...]

Bonus Points: 4th of July! Edition

As affiliate marketers, it’s okay if you have one hand on the laptop, clicking through stats, and another prodding burgers on the grill. But take some time out. You have Monday off! And there’s so much web junk to catch up on: » Everyone’s all abuzz over Google+, but do they even know how it [...]

Google+ Seems Adequate, But May Sneak Up on Us

Yesterday, we walked you through Google+. Today, we’ll offer a competing viewpoint that remains skeptical of Google+. How cute — TechCrunch and Mashable got sneak peeks at Google’s latest attempt at building a social network, something that has been rumored about for a year at least (remember Google Me?). I’ll Wave while all the Buzz passes [...]