Archive for September, 2010

30 Sep

A 140-Focus Is A Selfish Way To Tweet

Social Media

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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28 Sep

Order a Yahoo! Store Re-Design Before Oct. 10th And Receive Free Gifts

Ecommerce

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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27 Sep

Is LinkedIn Worthless?

Social Media

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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24 Sep

Build a Custom Yahoo! Store to Avoid Bad Business Juju

Ecommerce, Yahoo! Stores

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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23 Sep

World View: China E-Commerce Considerations

Uncategorized

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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