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by jonbishop 15y ago
Good content is a key part of SEO
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Poll: What is your biggest challenge in marketing SaaS products?
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Driving traffic
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Converting that traffic into customers
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Retaining those customers
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by jonbishop 15y ago
I don't think posting or tweeting is addictive, but I do think reading other people's content can be. Myspace was still popular when I was in college and it seemed like half the computer lab I did work in was always on Myspace.
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Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked(news.yahoo.com)
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RefactorMyCode Lives on... with an Open Source Version Coming Soon(intridea.com)
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by jonbishop 16y ago
"Do not rely on SEO to market your product" Couldn't agree more. A good marketing strategy requires diversity of channels. Naturally, unless you have a full-time person working on marketing, you will have to make sacrifices, but relying on
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by jonbishop 16y ago
It depends where you're located, but in San Francisco, Yelp.com has a lot of reviews for recruiters. http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=recruiter&ns=1&... I would read every review though. Similar to @neworbit's comment about r
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by jonbishop 16y ago
You should check out a domain auction site like Sedo.com to see if you can find similar domains and what they are selling for.
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by jonbishop 16y ago
That's quite the depressing chart. From their site: "Want more? Register now for FREE! We offer our readers two articles, columns, photos or videos per month, but you can get three more by completing our free registration." It's not even a
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by jonbishop 16y ago
Cool, thanks for letting me know. I've heard similar things before and I'm trying to make it a mantra.
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She's got a great quote in there about luck: "I really believe that luck is preparation meeting opportunity"
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by jonbishop 16y ago
The Huffingpost a/b tests their titles: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/10/how-the-huffington-post-use...
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by jonbishop 16y ago
A quick suggestion: add retweet and facebook like buttons to the pinata buster page to make it easier to share.
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by jonbishop 16y ago
"Can you convince your best friend to work on your 4th idea, when the previous 3 failed?" Any business/idea guy worth his/her salt will have more than one great idea. This is why I am learning how to code; so I don't have to go through all
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by jonbishop 16y ago
It depends on how compelling the content is; if a user is really engrossed, they'll be happy to scroll down pages of content. If they're not, keeping everything above the fold won't be enough. Naturally there are limits to how much a person
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by jonbishop 16y ago
Melissa, there are a ton of SEO resources on the web. SEOmoz's Ranking Factors is a great place to start: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors SEOmoz.org(and seobook.com) also has free tools and other resources.
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by jonbishop 16y ago
What kills me is that when the ATT spokesman mentions the subscriber percentages in the NYT article (quote and link below), he says "smartphone" and not "iphone". They have a lot of smartphones ( http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-servi
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by jonbishop 16y ago
Same here; sent them an email and this is the response I got back: Greetings, Thank you for contacting O'Reilly Media Customer Service. Today we had a very heavy volume of orders due to our "ebook deal of the day" promotion. This is affecti
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by jonbishop 16y ago
Feel the same way about the trademark symbols for linkedin - really breaks up the flow for me. While getting rid of (or reducing) the trademark symbols would help, I would also suggest trying to mention Linkedin less. For example, under ben
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by jonbishop 16y ago
I agree as well on the too much writing. People don't like to read that much. I think you should reduce your copy on this page to a few (in my experience people tend to like groups of 3) of the highest priority issues and then link off to a
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by jonbishop 17y ago
"Before you get all 'ugh, you are mocking a homeless man' on me, realize this... This experiment improved this bums ROI" I got the same feeling. It's because he doesn't treat the guy like a person; he never calls the homeless man by his nam
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by jonbishop 17y ago
The $100 mentioned is the minimum cost to get an ad on Google TV, not what Slate spent (though that doesn't mean the $1300 doesn't include the cost of the ad).
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by jonbishop 17y ago
Not sure if you read the section below that where I talked about the part of the pitch that I feel is responsible for these issues. I don't rule out that a Account Exec wouldn't say something like that, but from my experience, Yelp is very
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by jonbishop 17y ago
From the techcrunch article: "in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments in the guise of advertising contracts, in exchange for removing or modifying negative reviews." Yelp doesn't remove reviews and review
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I should add that while a lot could have changed since I left, I still speak to people there occasionally and strongly believe that not much has changed (especially with regard to Account Executives' ability to remove reviews and the spam a
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by jonbishop 17y ago
I am a former Yelp Account Executive; I was one of the people that would call these businesses. I have both positive and negative feelings about Yelp. It was a short stint (November 07 to March 08) because I wasn't very good at the job as I