December 2009
42 posts
“December 23, 2009
MyBlogLog? Yesterday, rumors surfaced around Yahoo!’s...”
– MyBlogLog? (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Rex Sez: Why did you buy it? Don’t shut it down, get someone in charge that knows the value of it!
“Avoid These Simple Usability Problems To Increase Conversions
Whether you are...”
– Avoid These Simple Usability Problems To Increase Conversions
Rex Sez: Unexpected bonus on a Friday!
“How Do Marketers Define a Conversion?
How Marketers Define a Website Conversion...”
– How Do Marketers Define a Conversion?
bit.ly Pro, bit.ly Labs, and bitly.tv
bitly:
Bit.ly Pro is off to a good start. We launched on Monday night and over 1,000 publishers and bloggers had contacted us by Tuesday asking to sign up. Our new Pro point person, Greg Battle — you can reach him at bit.ly/bitlypro — is frenetically provisioning partners. Recent additions include defenders.org, gdgt, icanhascheezburger, Mashable, MTV Networks, Ning, Chris Sacca,...
“5 Steps to a 4% Conversion from Tweets
Another post about the true value of...”
– 5 Steps to a 4% Conversion from Tweets
Rex Sez: Now if the VC’s can actually make Twitter make some $$$, everyone will be happy as pigs in shite! ;)
“8 Characters That Could Make Amazon.com Millions
Other sites should think about...”
– 8 Characters That Could Make Amazon.com Millions
Rex Sez: Should we really give Amazon more ways to make millions? :)
“While watching Curious George with my 5 year old son yesterday, I asked him what...”
– It Made My Day - Little Moments of WIN – Stacy
Rex Sez: Twitter is now normal for 5 year olds; means a whole generation will grow up and into the technology - just like a generation before them grew up into the internet. Look what happened there!
“7 Simple Truths of Social Media Marketing If you are thinking about using social...”
– 7 Simple Truths of Social Media Marketing
“If anything, I’m just embarrassed I didn’t see this coming. I’m embarrassed I...”
– Matt Langer (via marco) (via rafer)
Rex Sez: I speak for myself, but I think I should be old enough to know better. In fact speaking for others: WE ALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN SMART AND OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER! Politics are still the same here in America. Nothing is any different than it was. The whole...
“Good Service Is The Best Viral Marketing If you are a startup, you should know...”
– Good Service Is The Best Viral Marketing
“Facebook’s privacy pullback isn’t just outrageous; it’s a...”
– Facebook’s Great Betrayal - Facebook - Gawker
Rex Sez: Not really. It’s a landmark move on Facebook’s part. Don’t be fooled by the boy-CEO, he as well as the rest there knew exactly what they were doing. At the end of the day, it’s YOU the fool that believed anything...
“Headlines that Spread on Twitter Very good analysis of how to maximize your...”
– Headlines that Spread on Twitter
Rex Sez: The true benefit of Twitter - it makes people think of ways to use twitter to be a benefit!
“Mr. Ashe said CBS will also pull its inventory from some, but not all, online ad...”
– Digital Marketing: CBS Interactive Dumps Ad Networks - Advertising Age - Digitals
Rex Sez: 2010 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for advertising online.
“You ARE a marketer. Deal with it. Before you dive back into your work week, you...”
– You ARE a marketer. Deal with it.
Rex Sez: Work week? Is that like cubicle farm?
“While at a bar, the topic of drinks with sexual names came up (sex on the beach,...”
– It Made My Day - Little Moments of WIN – lazygnome
“Lisa only wanted to sell her air conditioner. Instead, she got a story. A very...”
– Emails From Crazy People » Tell Me More
Rex Sez: You may laugh at this stuff, but trust me, when you run across someone like this - all you want to do is think about how crazy you were for not believing what you see on this site!!! Yes, I usually love what they put on this site.
“A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions The PPC Hero has...”
– A Gazillion Ways to Test Landing Pages to Increase Conversions
Rex Sez: More great tips from @Performable
“Some of the comments on the Freakonomics blog point to the large US subsidies as...”
– Chutzpah of Israeli Startups
Rafer sez: As Israeli government procurement isn’t biased unreasonably against startups (the way US procurement is), then it’s easy to see how US subsidies matter. I suspect that the Israeli system is more even-handed than ours directly as a result of more reasonable...
“Burger King has launched a set of greeting cards that are mailed to the person...”
– Burger King Launches Hilarious Mailed Holiday Cards With $1 Inside | CenterNetworks
Rex Sez: “I’d buy that for a $1!” What movie was that in?? Oh well.. nevertheless, this is interesting, yet disturbing all at the same time.
“The Best Tactics in Landing Page Optimization What you need is the perfect...”
– Performable - Sharing tips to help you convert more visitors into customers
Rex Sez: Pefect landing pages are hard to achieve, but not impossible to create!
“And just wait until all of us humans walk around with QR tatoos so that an...”
– Google Tries Print QR Codes Again | CenterNetworks
Rex Sez: The QR Code Temp Tat Biz??? Anyone interested?
“Batson says he and a group of publishers he declines to name are brainstorming...”
– Online Publishers Scurry To Solve Financial Woes - Forbes.com
Rex Sez: 2010 will be an interesting year in the ad biz!
“7 Landing Page Lessons from Google
Being that most of those reading this will...”
– Performable - Sharing tips to help you convert more visitors into customers
Rex Sez: Be sure to read the 7 lessons found on the link.
“Draw Them In, Keep Them For Life
When you run a brick and mortar company, you...”
– Performable - Sharing tips to help you convert more visitors into customers
Rex Sez: For some reason I just totally agree with this new stealth startups blog. You should follow them on twitter, great stuff here: http://twitter.com/Performable 