Whether you are aware of it or not, the iPad and its clones have created a revolution. They are changing the using habits of computer users. Tablets are expected to outsell desktop computers as soon as the end of this year. Coupled with the rapid rise of smartphone sales, it can potentially result in millions […]
Mobile & Technology
Did Google Panda Change the Playing Field?
From time to time, when Google identifies a ‘gaming’ of their search engine results, its engineers open up the algorithms and tweak them, sending shudders in the world of e commerce and Internet advertising. Speculations run rampart until Google launches it to the world. One such tweak happened lately; in February 2011, Google launched such […]
GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and ShowMyPc
Remote viewing or remote connections have been an imperative part of the technical support world for many years. However, in more recent years, developers finally found other great formats for remote connection that also has plenty of benefits. Web Meetings and Conferences Webinars Web Training Along with other useful aspects, these are some of the […]
Social Media & Brand Monitoring: Collective Intellect
Collective Intellect, a company out of Bolder Colorado, has been around since 2005. They provide software and services to help businesses monitor and analyze real time marketing intelligence agregated from a broad spectrum of web and social media platforms. Similar to other companies (Radian6 and SM2 to name only 2) who provide software to monitor […]
Business Media Solutions: SlideShare
Slideshare may be another aspect of online commerce and marketing that may sound like one of the little guys, for now. However, this site offers large varieties of business media solutions in the forms of documents, slide show presentations and even downloadable pdf files. Professionals from many niches upload their business content, while other viewers […]
Press Release: Submission Software & Easy Self Serve Sites
One aspect of online business marketing may require the distribution of press releases for special events, products or even discounts or other coupon or seasonal promotions. And although drawing up a press release may not be that difficult or time consuming, submitting it to the many directories available can be a definite time-killer. Many have […]
Social Media & Brand Monitoring Part 2: CoTweet, HootSuite, TweetDeck, TweetAdder
Being able to monitor what is said about your brand on the internet has become a very important part of doing business these days. Social Media has the power to make or break brand names, and web visibility should be monitored. Hand in hand with finding out who is talking about you and why, there […]
What is the Microsoft Cloud?
Although the Cloud sounds fluffy and inviting, it really is just another name for the internet. All of us are Cloud users in that aspect, as anytime we use Facebook, or log into Hotmail, we are on the Cloud. However, recently the Cloud has expanded its niche into an entire new range of different business […]
Facebook Marketing Tool: Involver.com
Noah Horton and Rahim Fazal founded Involver.com in 2007 in efforts to provide a startup that can help brands begin to get a grip on managing their social media channels. Having grown from a company of a dozen employees to over sixty with many offices in areas such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and […]
Location Trends: Checkpoints
“When was the last time you got a reward for just showing up? When did you get a prize for something you do every day? Now you can, with Checkpoints” is the catch-phrase of a new mobile app called Checkpoints. Founded by brothers/ entrepreneurs Mark and Todd DiPaola, who put $1 million of their own […]