Local.com’s Numbers Up In The UK

Britain loves Local.com - the company has put out a press release stating that the number of visitors it’s received has increased by 1500 percent since April.

Become a Business Referral Representative for Google

Keth of Gspy points us to the Google Business Referral Representative job application page. Your mission? To assemble information on local businesses, and to convince them to add their listing to Google Maps (and to pay for Google AdWords ads). From the program FAQ:

Facebook Woops: Giuliani’s Girl Goes For Barack

If you're running for the highest office in the land, it's probably a good idea to check to see what your daughter's doing, if she's going to vote for you, and if not, will she be quiet about it? Wouldn't you double check her social network profiles?

Marketing Jobs Now Outsourced to India & China

There’s a disturbing side-effect that’s coming from the increased use of internet marketing - it can be done cheaper in China and India. While advertising continues to bring us greater efficiencies and cheaper costs, it’s also driving our need for faster turnaround and rapid deployment. When you can test 100 ads online within a week, you need a solution that can keep up with that…

Why Bloggers Don’t Need a Labor Union

It appears some left-wing political bloggers are trying to form a labor union in hopes they’ll receive health insurance and better working standards. Here are five reasons why this is a stupid move. 1. Where do we draw the line? It seems we can barely agree on how to define a blogger, so how do we decided who gets to join the union?