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The Viral Factor of Social Games

This is one of the best presentations I’ve seen concerning the impact of viral factors in social games: Metrics for Social Games by David King and Siqi Chen View more documents from justinsmith.

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Foreign Language Domain Name URL’s

They’re coming! Perhaps around mid 2010, domain name URL’s written in non-English language will become available for the internet. So a new gold rush is set to begin. The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in … Continue reading

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How To Build A Web Business

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Ideas Versus Execution

Derek Silvers of Oreilly net wrote a simple but great article on the value of ideas related to that of execution. It’s a concept I’ve felt but never knew exactly how to articulate.   All entrepreneurs seem to understand, “It’s all … Continue reading

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Future of Marketing and Mass Communication

Dave Lakhani has an interesting post on the future of marketing and mass communication in which he coorelates it with singularity. So as I studied The Singularity it occurred to me that the answer to how do you get your … Continue reading

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Top Industries For Starting A Business

Inc. Magazine outlines the best industries for entrepreneurs to start a new business right now. They are as follows: Iphone Apps Healthcare Technologies Beer, Wine Liquor Wholesale Software as a Service (SaaS) Home Health Care Yoga Products and Services Technical … Continue reading

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Sales 101: Manipulation Versus Persuasion

Great video on the difference between manipulation and persuasion in sales situations. The basic premise Dave Lakhani outlines on the difference between manipulation and persuasion in the sales process comes down to one thing… Intent. Dave’s definition on persuasion: “Getting … Continue reading

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FTC To Crack Down On Bloggers?

It seems Big Brother may be coming to the Blogsphere. Proposed FTC guidelines can be found here. While existing FTC rules already ban deceptive and unfair business practices. These new proposed guidelines aim to clarify the law and for the first time, … Continue reading

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SEO News And Information

Here is a great tool for staying on top of the SEO industry: http://seo.alltop.com/

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Importance Of XML Sitemaps For SEO

Randfish from SEOmoz has a descent article on top 12 mistakes made by newbie’s to SEO/SEM. In it, he list’s #6 as being the failure to include a sitemap. Specifically, an XML based sitemap, that is then submitted properly to … Continue reading

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