» Aw. Bill Gates is a great sport. He dismissed criticisms Steve Jobs made about him via his authorized biography while praising the late innovator’s contributions to the world. [ABC News] » Leave it up to Halloween to inspire a gimmicky site designed to help you waste time: Costume DB is a crowdsourced database of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lisa Barone’
Affiliate Bites: Bill Gates Is a Great Sport, Marketers Are Afraid of Day of the Dead, + More
Posted in Internet in the world, Marketing, Posts, Social Media
Tags: Amtrak, Bill Gates, Halloween, Klout, Lisa Barone, Marketing, Twitter, Wireless
No Comments »Affiliate Bites: Netflix’s Value Sinks, iOS Impressions Rise, + More
» Netflix is having the worst day ever with its market value plummeting. [Reuters] » Outspoken Media’s Lisa Barone makes a keen observation about trending topics on Twitter beginning to look a lot like search strings. [@LisaBarone via Twitter] » With a growth of 456%, maybe it’s not a bad idea to optimize your ads [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media, Technology
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, iOs, iPad, iPhone, Lisa Barone, Netflix, Outspoken Media, OWS, Search Marketing, Susan Payton, Twitter
No Comments »Industry Heavyweights Spur Google+ Backlash
We think Google+ is brilliant. Clean interface, easy segmentation, and seamless integration into other Google products. It’s a social network that even those of us who don’t like using social networks can use once in a while. Best of all, it provides that much-needed piece in the online reputation management puzzle with minimal investment. But [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media, Technology
Tags: Danny Sullivan, GigaOM, Google, Lisa Barone, Matthew Ingram, MG Siegler, Techcrunch
No Comments »How Facebook’s Anti-Google PR Campaign Unfolded
It’s hard to feel bad for either side–there’s no real David in the Goliath vs. Goliath feud between social giant Facebook and search giant Google. Perhaps Outspoken Media’s Lisa Barone tweeted it best: “Google cries Bing cheated, Facebook tries to get Google in trouble. OMG, will you companies GROW UP and focus on YOURSELVES.” And [...]
AM Affiliate: The Secret to Wall Street Journal’s Survival, SES Notes, + More
- Find out which blogging mistakes you could be making. [Mashable] – How has The Wall Street Journal been able to avoid shrinking budgets plaguing other publications? By changing its marketing strategy. Its new targets? Women. [MediaPost] – Lisa Barone is recapping SES all day today and whether you’re in NYC or not, it’s definitely [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media, Technology
Tags: AT&T, Blogging, China, Google, Lisa Barone, T-Mobile, The Wall Street Journal
No Comments »AM Affiliate: Mideast as a Marketer’s New Oasis, Google Comes to Japan’s Aid, + More
- An unlikely emerging territory for marketers everywhere? The Middle East. [AdAge] – One of the most exciting areas of advertising now has to do with one of the older technologies still kicking: Mobile. [Adotas] – One of the biggest earthquakes in recent memory has devastated Japan, killed hundreds, and scattered many more. Google has [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media
Tags: Chrysler, Earthquake, Google, Japan, Lisa Barone, New Media Strategies, SMX West 2011, Twitter
No Comments »Fear As a Search Marketing Tactic? Google Doesn’t Think So
Perhaps the type of behavior that’s vaulted Google ahead of second-placer Yahoo! over the years has been this ability to integrate human behavior into the artificial intelligence powering its search marketing beast. Let’s backtrack a little. Yesterday, Outspoken Media’s Lisa Barone reported about an entrepreneur who was abusing his client base in order to generate [...]
Posted in Industry News, Internet in the world, Marketing, Social Media
Tags: Amit Singhal, Google, Lisa Barone, New York Times
No Comments »Who Wants to Teach Kelli Space How to Become A Super Affiliate?
Well, first some background into who Kelli Space is: A college grad who has racked up, with interest, $200K in debt, by following the advice that, “A quality education should never be measured by its high price tag.” Newser has the full story, including how she’s worked it out so if 300,000 philanthropic Americans contribute [...]
Posted in Education, Internet in the world
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, College, Education, Finch Sells, Jonathan Volk, Kelli Space, Lisa Barone, Seth Godin
3 Comments »Affiliate TweetBeat: What Are the Marketers Up to For the Holidays?
So we know that netizens have a dizzying list of things they can do for Memorial Day weekend, but let’s check in with some of our favorites to see what they’ve got planned. – Affiliate Summit and FeedFront co-founder Missy Ward is in pursuit of some sparkly new exercise equipment: Looking to buy a new [...]





