We all know the saying “the early bird gets the worm”. Well… when it comes to searching for a good domain name, things are not that straightforwardly predictable. A few days ago I thought of an idea for an affiliate site. Naturally, the first thing I did after conceiving the […]
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It so happened that over the past few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of online shopping, and while altogether sad/uncomfortable it was interesting to register some of the mistakes online merchants (aka e-tailers) make. As I was watching them commit their mistakes, I couldn’t help but also make parallels
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Five days ago I presupposed that more savvy Internet users prefer Firefox for their main web browser. Not intentionally, but it so happened that in my last two posts I blogged about things that only more sophisticated Internet users would find of interest (visualization of Twitter followers, and a very
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Today I’ve discovered two terrific Twitter visualization tools that I would like to share with you. Both can help you find very interesting people to follow on Twitter. The first one is Twiangulate [you can also follow them here]. As they themselves put it, they discover “hidden tweeters, friends of
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What is a hashtag in the first place? Twitter itself defines this # sign as a symbol “used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet… created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages” [source]. As The New Yorker put it Twitter hashtags are “used to mark
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In case you haven’t yet heard of Unguru.me, it’s a project started earlier this month by Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins to establish a “community for small businesses to network and learn (without the hype)” and they have recently released their 2011 Unguru.me Report. The main question they tried answer
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Important: The title must really read 20 not 12 hours. See details in this comment by a LivingSocial affiliate, and the one right under it. How many of you have heard of LivingSocial before today? We all know Groupon, but “Living” Who? Well, they’re Groupon’s direct competitor, and they have
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Yesterday I’ve learned of BlogDash, a system which provides you with “the tools to find the bloggers who will actually care about your story, company, product” as well as with “all the information … to make a personalized and educated pitch”. BlogDash was actually announced by David Spinks (one of
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The famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse is known for saying: “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.” For an affiliate marketer (and any online marketer, for that matter!) the “place to stand” remains the same as in
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My Norton Internet Security is expiring in 10 days. Today I decided to renew it for two more years, and was quite surprised that it is cheaper to open an all new subscription than to renew an existing one: I then tweeted about this and received a quick reply from
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