A 140-Focus Is A Selfish Way To Tweet

Those who know Twitter know what the magic number is: 140. That’s the maximum number of characters Twitter allows in a tweet. So when you’re posting big news to the world on Twitter, your entire tweeted message must squeeze uncomfortably into a thimble sized container before Twitter will let you pull the pour lever. There
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Order a Yahoo! Store Re-Design Before Oct. 10th And Receive Free Gifts

Throughout e-commerce land, Yahoo! Store merchants are preparing for the Christmas shopping frenzy. Long before Christmas day, e-shoppers will be filing their nails, adjusting their glasses, and pulling up shirt sleeves, for extreme mach 10 e-shopping. This year will be different: Not only will shoppers expect easy to use standard Yahoo! Store pages to shop
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Is LinkedIn Worthless?

Just the other day, a fellow LinkedIn connection’s posting popped up on our social media radar. It was complaining that LinkedIn just wasn’t helpful. We posed a question to several LinkedIn groups asking whether there was any real value in having a LinkedIn account or not. Out of the dozens and dozens of pro-LinkedIn responses
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Build a Custom Yahoo! Store to Avoid Bad Business Juju

The old adage, “build it and they will come,” isn’t totally true. Everyone can relate to the bricks-and-mortar world example of those “locations” that always seems to fail. Sometimes it’s an entire mall or even a little building that everyone eventually shuns like the plague. Is it cursed, some ask. In a way it is,
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World View: China E-Commerce Considerations

If you’ve ever gone out for a long drive, you may have stopped for gas or snacks at an old country store. It’s possible that you got out of your car, walked up to the front door, pulled on the handle and found the door locked, in the middle of the day no less. Then
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Mobile Stats Indicate Mobile Shopping is a Hassle For Most

According to a 2010 Brandbank’s Report, (figures from YouGov Plc) “the overall trend is one of dissatisfaction with current mobile offerings. Only four per cent of UK consumers claim they find making purchases via their mobile device hassle free.” If you’re asking yourself if you read that right, you did; ONLY 4% of these consumers
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Will You Miss The Mobile Commerce Train?

Everyone has heard prognostications of trends to come, only to later wonder whatever became of them. What makes the mobile commerce movement any different? Mobile Commerce Is The Next Logical Step Mobile commerce is not a pair of high-fashion shoes that will be in this year and out the next. Mobile commerce is not an
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Five-Ingredient Secret Recipe For Social Media Jugglers

Seasoned social-media-lites are the circus jugglers of the internet; forever tossing multi-planar social media posts, sidestepping noisy crowds, and scanning the sky for incoming mail. Meanwhile, these social media stars are expected to engage bleachers full of social media fans that have seen it all. Without a secret recipe for success, these social media sprites
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