New here? If you’d like to be notified the next time I write something, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!For many years, I have resisted the temptation to comment publicly on this sort of thing, but today I’m going to break my silence. You’ll either […]
This is a personal blog. If you are looking for something useful to do or read, you probably won’t find it here and, after many years of only building sites that had to have some kind of defined purpose, the feeling that generates is so liberating!
The current “incarnation” of this blog started with the […]
It has often been said that a glance at the magazine racks can give you good ideas for potentially lucrative niche sites. Now that the reach of the net has passed that of magazines, if the trend continues, this will become even more of an indicator of a topic’s value. Because as reach reduces, if […]
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Online feed agregator, Bloglines, says: “We are pleased to announce our newest feature, package tracking. Now, you can have Bloglines track the status of your UPS, FedEx, and USPS packages.” Read more details here »
Those of you who ship physical goods via one of those methods, can now use this service and, suggest it to […]
Marketing Consultant, Marcia Yudkin points out in today’s issue of The Marketing Minute (one of a few that ARE worth an email subscription) that: “If no one ever cooked with baking soda again, its manufacturers would have little cause for concern. People would continue to buy it to mask odors, clean floors and silver, […]
I don’t get many newsletters by email these days, but if the pitches from the few lists I am still on are anything to go by, the world and his dog has a copy of this, or a similar clone, software to sell. That would make it very easy to dismiss.
Now, I will admit that […]
Several sources have carried stories today about the purchases of a couple of analytics companies. (Google bought one of them), but none was exactly “newsworthy”, until you look at it in this light as Brad Waller of ePage did:
“With all the news about cookie deletion, and particularly third party cookies, a strong argument could be […]
comScore figures continue to show extremely rapid e-commerce growth, report MarketingVOX, which is always nice to know. But at the BBC, you can read rather less optimistic sounding news: US consumer confidence down again.
OK, where’s the truth and what’s the “average Joe/sephine” supposed to make of all this? Or, in other words, how can YOU […]
You do have to laugh at the way an awful lot of marketing is done, especially online. But, it has it’s dark side too, when it’s preying on the fear and ignorance of the buyer. Beware gimmick proclamations as Kevin Dugan explains:
“The gimmick of proclaiming the death of one industry, discipline, technique or technology due […]