Archive for February, 2011

28 Feb

U.S. Businesses Need Face On These Top 5 Chinese Social Media Places

Social Media

By guest blogger, Weidong “Jim” Zhang Because one in five people in the world are Chinese, it’s likely that the Chinese market will one day soon (if it’s not already) affect your business. Many U.S. based businesses have realized that China isn’t just the world’s top exporter, but is now developing into what many experts [...]

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28 Feb

How Ecommerce Merchants Should React to Google’s Recent Algorithm Reconfiguration

Ecommerce

eWeek.com’s recent article “Google Algorithm Change Targets Content Farms“ is important news for us all to consider. Though most ecommerce merchants strive to do the right thing, it’s not hard, especially when every stroke of strategy counts, to slip into the ditch of SEO sleaze. Once done, it’s tough to climb out and scrape off [...]

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26 Feb

BoardGames.com’s Yahoo! Store “Kinged”

Yahoo! Stores

The travel time from one end of the Yahoo! Store game board to the other depends on who’s playing the game. Yahoo! Store merchants have been known to ponder their position for years without making one move toward productive design. The winners are those merchants who realize that this “game” of ecommerce is a fast [...]

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23 Feb

Tracking mCommerce’s MOST WANTED - Trends & Insights

Conferences, Mobile Store

Join sleuths from FastPivot.com & Monitus.net (March 8, 1-2pm EST) as they put a magnifying glass over mCommerce’s digital web. Yahoo! Store mobile merchants will be clued-in to critical metrics for tracking visitors and sales. The “insiders” would rather keep this previously sealed data off-limits, but during this tech-lab intensive mCommerce webinar there will not [...]

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21 Feb

How to Thwart Firesheep’s Social Media Spies-Critical Info. for “Coffee-Shop” WiFi Users

Social Media

When the New York Times published the article, New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users the other day, it was the first time many Wi-Fi users heard of the easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox hack plugin, Firesheep. This simple to download and use plugin makes it so easy for low-tech hackers to snoop innocent users’ [...]

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