Archive for "March, 2011"

Google’s New +1 Button and the Demise of Google
New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: Yesterday, Google announced the launch of their +1 button, which will allow Google Profile owners to “+1”, or share/save their recommendations including, but not limited to; websites, products, places, recipes, etc… Many see this as an effort to help further Google’s share of social media functionality and interaction, and, obviously, to compete with Facebook’s Like button. What does the +1 button do? It’s quite simple: just like the Facebook Like button, you will have the ability to +1 different Google items, from search engine results, to comparison shopping. This in turn will shape your future Google experience… Google’s New +1 Button and the Demise of Google
Don´t Make Me Your Competition
Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) competition speech from the movie Limitless. Great dialogue! Bradley Copper (Eddie Morra): Well in order for a career to evolve, I am going to have to move on… Carl Van Loon (Rober De Niro): That you would even think that would only show me how unprepared you are to be on your own. I mean you do know you are freak…your deductive powers are a gift from god, or chance, or a stray shot of sperm, or whatever or whoever the hell wrote your life script-a gift, not earned. You do not know what I know because you did not earn those powers. Your careless with those powers; you flaunt them and you throw them around like a brat with his trust fund; you haven’t had to climb up all the greasy little rungs; you haven’t been board blind at the fund raisers; you haven’t done the time in that first marria
New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: So you’ve launched your new website, and are finished working out all the post-launch kinks (at least most of them!). Next steps; bring visitors to your site to sell your products/services, which is easier said than done. Where To Start With eCommerce Marketing