As discussed in this article from the other day, Bonanzle is a site that is emerging as a contender to compete with eBay, who as we all know has been driving a lot of sellers away for various reasons.
Does Age Matter In Marketing?
Sometimes I can’t resist a post that will result in a few irate responses. This is likely going to be one of them. It is essentially about my distaste for something that I have seen far too many marketers blindly rely on … age statistics. Just about every web site that tries to sell advertising reports on the age stats of their visitors. Television programs report on their ability to reach wide demographics whether it is the "coveted" 18-34 males or moms from 25-44. Let’s face it …
Size Doesn’t Always Matter, Authority Does.
Bankaholic is a one-man WordPress blog run by 22-year-old Johns Wu, who just got the deal of a lifetime when he sold it to BankRate for $15 million, proving that blogging dreams really can come true.
Teacher’s Social Profiles; Should They Matter?
The Washington Post pokes around a few MySpace and Facebook profiles of young school teachers and shares the apparently disturbing results.
Load Times Matter To AdWords Quality Score
Google will make landing page load times a factor in computing the quality score, which could have an impact on minimum bid prices.
The Key to Dominating Google is to Matter Outside of it
Rich Skrenta recently mentioned an article about being within the confines of Google: So it strikes me that the time is right to make some big bets. You can’t make those within the system. My advice: start from scratch, take some chances in finding marketing channels outside the Google system.
Google Names Microsoft In Antitrust Matter
Google filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, in secret, several months ago; the complaint suggested that Vista’s desktop search function is too hard to turn off.
Now, as you might have noticed, the complaint has become public, and several interesting details relating to the matter have also come to light.
Does The MySpace Vote Matter?
One week ago, MySpace announced plans to hold its own little Presidential primary, and we all “oohed” and “aahed” (or at least thoughtfully “hmmed”) on cue – it sounds like an interesting idea, right? But new data implies that MySpace’s elections won’t in any way predict the real deal.
SEM’s Future: What WILL and WILL NOT Matter
The SEM Industry is rapidly changing, this includes the search engines (their SERP algorithms and spiders), SEO Tactics, and SEM Strategies. Off the top of my head I have come up with 5 things that WILL NOT matter in SEM in the future and 5 things that marketers should stay on top of.
When the OS Doesn’t Matter
What happens when the operating system you use doesn’t really matter any more?