Yahoo recently added new features to their mail system including instant messaging and texting all from the computer. WebProNews talked with Vice President of Research, Michael McGuire of Gartner, an industry analysis firm about the new features. He discusses what this means for the users and his expert opinion of the upgrade.
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Written by Ben Yoskovitz. Ben is co-Founder of Standout Jobs, a startup tackling the online job market. He also blogs regularly at Instigator Blog about startups, business, marketing and social media.
Digg is the behemoth of the social media and bookmarking world. Hit the front page of Digg and you should get several thousand visitors at least. You could get many, many more. My best result on Digg was Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail, which resulted in 50,000+ un (more…)
Although Pronet has made clear that our writers will not submit our own stories to any socially driven sites, hundreds if not thousands of people submit their own content (and often only their own content) to Digg on a daily basis. Today we take a look at this phenomenon and evaluate its dangers.
First things first: Digg explicitly authorizes the submission of blog posts. However, it’s important to note that even though submitting your own content is allowed, there is an unspoken taboo against it (on Dig (more…)
HitTailing to get more website traffic is a hit-or-miss proposition sometimes. This blog post is to discuss a miss.
Not everything you do in real life can be an automatic success. Sometimes, it takes a few tries. HitTail is analogous to entrepreneurial success in real-life. You will have your successes, and you will have your failures. But on the whole, your successes should outweigh your failures, because you learn from the past, do more of what worked for you, less of what didn’t, and play to your strengths.
You selectively concentrate your successes, an (more…)
We like to be as non-traditional in our paid-marketing campaigns as we are in developing free alternative marketing products. That’s why, when the time came to buy ads, we chose John Battlle’s Federated Media, whose ad network includes some of the world’s biggest online influencers.
And guess what?
Some of the most powerful sites around the Internet will be running our widget!
Yep, you’ll be able to sit there and watch the traffic of some awesome sites, the way you watch your ow (more…)