Everybody’s looking for the typo, or a misplaced decimal. Could a domain really be worth $300-400 million? Could the Wall Street Journal have made three typographical errors in one article? Doubtful, the headline did use the word "jackpot."
Google Shows Who’s Selling Cheap Quality Links
Google recently added the ability for you to report link buyers, which is probably nothing more than a mind control game and a complete waste of time. I recently saw what looked like obvious link buying by Discovery.com. Do you think Google would do anything about it if I reported them? Nope.
AP Considers Selling News Ala Carte
From a story about AP by AP:
Selling SEO Services Typically a Bad Business Model?
John Andrews recently wrote an article about how consumer ignorance and carnival barkers lead to a market that is a self fulfilling prophecy:
Selling That Thing That You Sell
The other day I went to a local seminar on “internet marketing”. I honestly didn’t expect a whole lot; it was one of those “how to make money on the internet” things, which promised to tell you tips on how to use the search engines to your advantage, yada, yada, yada. But I have to say I was surprised, at least from the first 30 minutes of the 90 minute seminar.
Google Selling PR7 Links For $10k!
While doing some research, an astute coworker of mine noticed that the Google Enterprise Solutions page has links to their partners’ websites who are part of their Enterprise program. What’s interesting about this is that the page has a Google PageRank of 7/10, and to get listed on that page you have to pay Google $10,000 per year to be part of their program.
The Basics Of Short Selling Stocks
‘Shorting’ or short selling refers to the selling of a contract, a bond or stock or a commodity that is not directly owned by the seller. When practicing short selling, a seller is committed to purchase the stock or commodity previously sold.
LinkedIn Selling Internet Ads Keyed to Your Profile
LinkedIn has been generating a signifigant amount of buzz in the last few weeks.
Robo-selling Doesn’t Create A Customer Relationship
In a post earlier today, the usually-on-the-money Jim Berkowitz at the CRM Mastery blog had a post entitled “Turning Sales Into Science” that spotlighted a number of emerging technologies that are (according to Berkowtiz Inc.’s Alex Salkever) going to “launch your sales force into the future” and “turn a sales operation into a gleaming high-tech machine.”
UPI Selling Text Links, Offering PageRank
It’s always interesting to watch aspects of a field you’ve followed for the better part of two years get accepted into the mainstream. Such is the case with United Press International (UPI), a leading news broker, who recently began selling text link advertisements that will be displayed throughout their various channels. While text link ads […]