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UH OH: Facebook IPO Seeing "Weak Demand"

on May 11, 2012
UH OH: Facebook IPO Seeing "Weak Demand"Maybe Mark Zuckerberg must have worn a tie in the roadshow lunch, in the end.Facebook's IPO is ending up in less strong-than-expected demand from institutional traders, Bloomberg's Serena Saitto, Jeffrey McCracken, and Zijing Wu report.Apparently traders are concern about the business's decelerating growth, especially in accordance with the business's user growth (as they must be).The organization can also be stated to possess told traders it will not meet their most positive forecasts.That last

4 Online Reputation Management Tips for 2012

on Jan 13, 2012
What are your customers saying about your business, product and/or services? What are your potential customers reading about your business practices? Where do your customers talk about you? Knowing the answers to these questions are the first steps towards building a positive reputation on the web. If customers aren’t talking about your business online (that you know of), why should you even bother with online reputation management (ORM)? Being left in the dark when it comes to your online reputation can

Incentivized Advertising Raises Brand Awareness

on Sep 20, 2011
Incentivized Advertising Raises Brand Awareness

When we were kids, the promise of a gold star or a sticker was all the incentive we needed to do our very best on a spelling test. As we grew, the incentives did too, a higher allowance for keeping your room clean, then a higher salary for doing a good job at work.

I am a Spammer, Scammer and Phisher – Why Web Of Trust Is Broken

on Aug 25, 2011
I am a Spammer, Scammer and Phisher – Why Web Of Trust Is BrokenWarning: This is going to be a long post but needs to be to rightfully explain how Web of Trust is being gamed. Web of trust is a user powered website that is used to rank websites that are classified as spam, scams, etc. Places like facebook use them to check if links are safe to link to, etc. It all started a couple months ago… One day my Dad’s ecommerce site, which sells On Demand Hydrogen Generators for cars and trucks got flagged as being a spam/scam site. All his links on facebook

The Next iPhone Test

on Feb 3, 2011
I've been watching the overwhelmingly positive "reviews" of the new Verizon iPhone bounce around the blogosphere today, and I have to say, it's hard to not get caught up on the excitement: Hey! I can actually MAKE A PHONE CALL! Well, perhaps we've all forgotten, but until the iPhone hit AT&T's network and slammed it to the ground, phone calls were pretty much the same on either network. IE, they both had their issues, depending on where you were in the world. And it's sort of not fair to compare Verizon's

Why Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work for You and How to Fix it

on Jan 12, 2010

I was reminded on Twitter by a quote how life coaches and gurus often talk about how sports people visualize victory. They say if you use positive visualization, then your outcome will improve. Then there are the people who tell you that if you use the “Law of Attraction”, that is if you ask the universe for something, and you believe, then what you ask for will come to you. The problem is, for most people, experience does not match what they are taught. And that sucks. In the headline I make a promise that you can make positive thinking work. How?

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