For many of us that spend a good portion of our day-to-day lives online, the idea that people actually buy products from spam messages they receive in their inboxes seems laughable. However, new research from security company Marshal suggests quite the contrary.The Results
Google Is Weak Because It Is Strong
Google’s stock closed last week at $637.39, Wall Street thinks Google’s third quarter earnings announcement may come in 50 cents higher per share than last quarter, the company gets two-thirds of the web searches and 40 percent of the ad revenue. They’re screwed.
YouTube 101, Just Because
Your first reaction to the news that a college offers a class in YouTube might be to dredge up old "underwater basket-weaving" jokes; learning the school is in California, might be less surprising – after all, Stanford offers a course in Facebook apps.
Because Algorithms Are People Too…Oh, Wait
Google has yet to create an algorithm that approximates how the human mind processes things. They’re working on it, of course, but it is still a textual (as well as contextual and behavioral, and mathematical, among others) process rather than a pure cognitive process. And that creates a gap that is hard to navigate when writing for the Web: write for the reader or write for the spider?
Print Isn’t Dead Just Because Bloggers Say So
Upon news that 30-year-old magazine InfoWorld was shutting down its print operations and moving online, and that the San Francisco Chronicle is also in trouble, a debate is raging in the blogosphere. The general consensus near Silicon Valley: print is dead.
Afraid of Blogging Because It Might Hurt Google
Adam Bosworth says he’s scared of posting on his blog. “I find that most of what I want to post these days would rile a fair number of people and then Google would get the blame …
Are You Losing Sales Because Of These 4 Simple Web Site Mistakes
Losing website sales and traffic is sometimes simply a case of web usablity – your website just isn’t clear to your visitors.
Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link?
I don’t know about you, but I get dozens of emails daily with completely blank subject lines. The vast majority contain viruses or spam messages, and due to an overloaded inbox and the impracticality of going through each message individually, I tend to delete these suspects automatically en masse, in the same way that I delete other messages containing subject lines that scream spam.
Do You Fail To Sell Online Because You Ignore This Important Fact?
Do you struggle to sell enough to warrant the time and resources required to sell your goods through your website? Are you spending more money on your website than you earn from it? Is your website simply a contact point with a shopping cart that no-one buys anything from?
IS YOUR BUSINESS FAILING BECAUSE OF YOU?
Friend, is your business failing because of you?