Thursday 30 April 2015
Tesla's new product is a battery for your home
Tesla has unveiled a suite of new energy products, including a wall-mounted battery that will be sold for use in consumers' homes.
LinkedIn shares plunge 20%
Investors aren't liking what LinkedIn posted Thursday about its business for the rest of the year.
Decoding the Top 4 Digital Visitors and Turning Them into Shoppers (Infographic)
Brick-and-mortar stores have one big advantage. When a visitor walks in, salespeople know if the person wants to buy or not. Salespeople are adept at judging such intentions. So, based on their judgment, they approach the visitor with an appropriate pitch to close a sale. Having an ecommerce, or virtual store, is a total game […]
45 Baltimore CVS workers are still getting paid after riots shut down stores
Forty-five Baltimore CVS workers who saw their stores burned down in the riots earlier this week are still getting paid.
Pay per view police will be on the hunt during Mayweather Pacquiao fight
Bars and restaurants will be packed with fans watching the Mayweather Pacquiao fight Saturday night. Sprinkled among them will be the Pay-Per-View police looking for venues that didn't pay the expensive licensing fee to show the match.
10 Common Pitfalls of Product Launches and How to Avoid Them
You probably think about product launches the same way I do. They’re insanely exciting. Terrifying, yes, but exciting. Part of the reason for the terror is this: We’ve heard of the product launch horror stories. We don’t want it to happen to us. There are risks in running a business, and during product launch those […]
16 major U.S. cities now have police cameras
Cities across America are fitting their police officers with cameras.
Europe's deflation worries ease. For now
Super Mario will be pleased: Europe has put an end to deflation for now.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Roubini: Baltimore riots are a symptom of income inequality
The riots in Baltimore this week may have been triggered by the death of Freddie Gray, but their roots are found in the widening gap between America's rich and poor.
How to Leverage Your Product to Discover New Growth Channels
If you’ve done any research on how to grow a tech business, you’ve probably come across a guy named Ryan Fujiu. He has led growth at both about.me and Lyft. Recently, he gave a talk at the 500DISTRO conference, where he discussed how to use product to grow through existing channels and find new ones. […]
Why The Customers Who Don’t Convert Are Immensely Important
I love Warby Parker, but I’ll never buy a pair because I have 20/20 vision. My boss reads the Buffer blog daily, but she’s never used the tool a day in her life. We’re brand fans, part of an enormous audience of advocates you may be missing out on. While brand fans like us may […]
Colleges that boost your salary the most
Where you go to school can have a huge effect on your salary.
Tuesday 28 April 2015
iPad glitch grounds American Airlines flights
An apparent iPad software glitch has grounded several American Airlines planes in the United States.
Boone Pickens to Texas: Don't panic. Oil is going higher
T. Boone Pickens knows better than almost anyone just how much the oil industry means to Texas.
Oil tycoon's ex-wife won't get more than $1 billion
The ex-wife of an oil tycoon won't get any more than the $1 billion she already pocketed in their divorce -- but not for a lack of trying.
Twitter earnings leaked ... on Twitter. Stock tanks 20%
Twitter's latest quarterly results came out earlier than expected after someone on Twitter (naturally) leaked them.
This might be the best smartphone camera on the planet
If the No. 1 thing you care about in a smartphone is the camera, you'll probably want to buy an LG G4.
How You Can Build an Email Marketing List as Quickly as Possible
According to a 2014 survey of 1,000 web-based businesses, email marketing has the highest ROI of any marketing channel. Surveyed companies attributed an average of 23% of total sales to this single channel, and these results are hardly isolated. Anywhere you look nowadays, you’ll see that email marketing is more profitable than ever. The question […]
What do employees want most? R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Even if you're pulling down a fat paycheck, if you're earning it at a place where you're treated like dirt, chances are you'll want out.
Sell in May and go away? 3 charts show that's dumb
It's the end of April. You know what that means. Time to sell in May and go away. Right?
Free rent: 7 World Trade Center opens doors to startups
While most young entrepreneurs hole up in co-working spaces, a few lucky ones are running their firms out of 7 World Trade Center -- for free.
Nepali earthquake survivor raises $57,000 in disaster relief
After surviving the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday, Lokesh Todi immediately turned his attention to helping its victims.
Monday 27 April 2015
GoFundMe shuts down crowdfunding for anti-gay bakery
Refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple has cost an Oregon bakery big bucks.
How to Market to Customers When The Free Trial is Over
The free trial is a common SaaS marketing strategy. According to Totango, 44% of SaaS companies offer a free trial. But the strategy is only as good as how far it gets you — to the end of the free trial. What happens after the free trial? You can’t rely on the free trial alone […]
10 Mistakes Startup Companies Should Avoid in PPC Marketing
Lets face it. When launching a new Startup Company everyone involved is excited and eager to start building their empire. However, many times entrepreneurs get “glossy-eyed” when reading blogs or attending marketing conferences which are pushing the latest and greatest in online tools and gadgets that will promise them instant success. Too many times, this approach can be a disaster. In this post, I will discuss at least Ten (10) instances where Entrepreneurs need to be careful about what they hear and what they spend their precious money on.
Marketing Conference Intoxication
Don’t get me wrong, Internet Marketing Conferences are a “No-Brainer” to attend whether your a newbie or seasoned professional. However, entrepreneurs that are new to this space can easily feel overwhelmed with everything from SEO, PPC, Landing Pages, Social Media, Pay-Per Call Services, Analytics, Automation, etc…. and that plethora of information often leads to anxiety of what to focus on ...
Kiev Mayor Klitschko: 'Fighting for our future'
Kiev's mayor has two priorities when it comes to Ukraine's economic recovery: Wiping out corruption and attracting investors.
The 4-day workweek is real ... for employees at these companies
Who doesn't want to take Fridays off?
Sunday 26 April 2015
'Avengers' sequel hauls in $201 million overseas in just days
The highly-anticipated movie "Avengers: Age of Ultron" has already pulled in an estimated $201 million in box office sales since debuting outside the United States on Wednesday.
Google executive killed in Nepal earthquake while hiking Everest
Read full story for latest details.
Saturday 25 April 2015
Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech resigns
The chairman of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Piech, has resigned.
NBC finds at least 10 Brian Williams embellishments
The in-house investigators assigned to look into Brian Williams' past reports have documented at least 10 instances of exaggerations and embellishments by the NBC anchorman.
The reaction to Bruce Jenner is love
There are innumerable reactions to Bruce Jenner's announcement about being a transgender woman, but the dominant reaction is the most human one of them all: love.
Friday 24 April 2015
Welcome Bruce Jenner
As a transgender person and executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, I know that transgender people as a whole are necessarily resilient. And we saw that too in Bruce Jenner tonight.
The Art of eCommerce Upselling
Let me ask you two questions: is ecommerce a new and better way of doing business? And, is ecommerce better than offline shopping? For many “experts” (such as investors and journalists), it is. However, I disagree. Ecommerce is exactly the same as doing business in the offline world, except it is in the online world […]
Facetune makes your ugliest selfies look beautiful
Facetune is exactly what it sounds like -- a mobile photo-editing app that lets you tweak pictures of your face to your heart's content.
Take a peek inside an Apple Watch
The first Apple Watches are making their way to customers today, and some folks are already tearing them apart, literally.
HSBC: We may quit UK
One of the world's largest banks, HSBC, is considering moving its headquarters out of the U.K. because of tough regulations and uncertainty over the country's future in Europe.
Thursday 23 April 2015
How a $1.8 million dinosaur skull went from Montana to Hong Kong
As a young man growing up in Montana, Ray Novakovich made a hobby of hunting for fossils and unusual rocks on his family's plot of land.
Using Storytelling to Engage and Persuade (Infographic)
We all seek out stories every day. We watch TV shows and movies, and we read books and newspapers to get stories. Even songs and advertisements tell stories. There’s no escaping it. Stories are part of our lives. And, as marketers, we use stories to help make our ideas stick. We create stories to help […]
Amazon's lifts curtain on secretive $5 billion cloud business
Amazon is back to its big spending, big revenue, money losing ways.
Dr. Oz: accuses critics of having conflict of interest
Dr. Mehmet Oz's on-camera rebuttal to his critics is airing on local stations across the country Thursday, part of a P.R. blitz that includes an essay in Time magazine and an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
There’s More to Life than Analytics – Why Ignorance of Conceptual Models is Costing You Money
I’m a copywriter on a quest for the most conversions. I sit surrounded by data that my agency uses to raise landing pages high on the search results page. Titanic resources ensure these pages are well optimized with tight-coding, clean links and sheaves of search insight that explain what’s been done and what’s on deck. […]
Wednesday 22 April 2015
Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger in doubt: what might happen next?
In marathon meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Comcast executives faced off with the skeptical government regulators who are scrutinizing the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Mayweather-Pacquiao ticket sales almost ready -- with knockout prices
Tickets to the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight are finally going on sale, but they are priced so that only financial heavyweights will be able to afford them, one of the fight promoters said Wednesday.
New York City's bold plan to end garbage
In a city famous for giant, steaming piles of trash, the new plan is to have nearly none at all.
Surprising stocks push Nasdaq closer to record
The Nasdaq is hovering around the magical 5,000 level -- less than 1% from topping the all-time closing high it hit 15 years ago. And it's the best major market index in the United States this year.
Customer Acquisition Cost: The One Metric That Can Determine Your Company’s Fate
Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a metric that has been growing in use, along with the emergence of Internet companies and web-based advertising campaigns that can be tracked. Traditionally, a company had to engage in shotgun style advertising and find methods to track consumers through the decision-making process. Today, many web-based companies can engage in […]
Google invites more people to turn off its ads
Google is sending a batch of invites to people who want to pay websites to see fewer ads.
Warren Buffett dumped Tesco before record loss
Warren Buffett clearly doesn't believe this turnaround story.
Tuesday 21 April 2015
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