Circle wants to get everyone, including non-geeks, using bitcoin. To get them on board, it's now dealing in dollars as well as digital currency.
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Circle wants to get everyone, including non-geeks, using bitcoin. To get them on board, it's now dealing in dollars as well as digital currency.
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The days of the long-form homepage are over! Or they might be anyway… In the past few days I’ve noticed a trend being adopted, or at least being tested, by several different sites. Specifically, the format involves encouraging visitors to try their software immediately, on the homepage, without the need to create a demo account. [...]
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In our culture, much is made of natural ability. But natural ability is nothing without grit. In fact, without grit, natural ability can actually be wasted. Recent science tells us that grit can accurately determine who will graduate from high school or West Point or even win a spelling bee. In other words, grit is
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Email is an incredibly effective way to nurture prospects and leads, and pave the path for those folks to make a purchase. But so much marketing email goes horribly, horribly wrong. If there’s one thing nearly everybody hates, it’s spam. It wastes our time, it insults our intelligence, and sometimes it can even trick or
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Yes, this really is an invitation from a cable company for you to pay for an online service that plays shows that have already appeared on cable.
The post The Idea That Anyone Would Pay for Hulu on Cable Is Bizarre appeared first on WIRED.
You’ve been hearing a lot about email lists. That’s because we marketers love conversions, and email lists are the highest converting platform available. Email users convert at a higher rate than social followers or organic search users, for a number of both obvious and more complex reasons. But perhaps, you’re sitting there with a 50k-user [...]
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Email marketing is extremely effective. So why do almost all small businesses get such uninspiring results from it? That’s what this post is all about! Email marketing: Free and easy? The cost of marketing has changed massively over the years. For small business owners, the cost of sending a marketing letter [direct mail] to just […]
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Netflix did it. Amazon did it. Now YouTube is getting into the original content game.
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Netflix did it. Amazon did it. Now YouTube is getting into the original content game. But there's one big difference: the names on the online marquee.
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Dotcom survivor SurveyMonkey has asked a lot of questions since it was founded in 1999. Now it wants to share some of the answers.
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You can now leave comments on Dropbox files much in the same way that you can comment on news articles like this one.
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Question: What would a restaurant be like if you couldn't actually go to a restaurant? Answer: Maple.
The post David Chang’s Startup Is a Restaurant Without a Restaurant appeared first on WIRED.
Here are 10 suggestions to get you started. Dream bigger dreams. They are more motivating than puny goals. Get into the habit of walking daily for 30 minutes. It will improve your life in so many ways. Too busy for a 30 minute walk? Get serious about solving your time management problem. This will help […]
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Google wants patent holders to pitch it patents to keep them out of trolls' hands.
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The online education industry will rake in $107 billion in 2015. And with the sale of Lynda.com to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, the commercial sector is leading and pulling away from traditional institutions in the “just in time” education market. People want online courses, and they’ll clearly pay for them. And if great content marketing
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Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne wants to remake the stock market the same way bitcoin remade money.
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There’s something amazing about deadlines, which very few business owners tap into. When used correctly, deadlines can help you improve your sales results and build a great reputation too. I’ll show you how this works in a moment. First, let’s consider just how valuable deadlines are: By giving someone a deadline, you have stated precisely […]
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The world is paying attention to internet policy in a way that it never has before.
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Comcast has dropped its much-criticized plan to acquire Time Warner Cable after federal regulators recommended increased scrutiny of the proposed deal.
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Making your site work for users is the key to achieving your conversion goals. That means looking after the principles of web usability: availability and accessibility, clarity, learnability, credibility and relevancy. Here are 12 tips from recent articles on web usability to help you nail this important conversion tactic. Read 12 Must-Read Tips on Web Usability, [...]
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Comcast has dropped its much-criticized plan to acquire Time Warner Cable after federal regulators recommended increased scrutiny of the proposed deal.
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In the cloud, Amazon is both powerful and profitable.
The post Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business appeared first on WIRED.
People watch 4 billion videos a day on Facebook. Now it's joining with viral mavens like The Onion and Vice to make video ads those people might actually want to watch.
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Goodwill can be the difference between a happy, growing community and a declining audience where you get more unsubscribes than opt-ins. Join The Mainframe hosts Tony Clark and Chris Garrett as they discuss how goodwill works in your digital business, what you can do to generate more goodwill, and how to nurture it with your
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As soon as I walked in the room, I could feel the energy of the audience. There was a palpable buzz of anticipation and excitement in the air. We were all waiting for Seth Godin to deliver the opening keynote at Copyblogger Media’s first-ever live event, Authority Intensive. Everyone was excited about Seth, but as
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The Glow team is rounding out its app with a new component: support for male fertility.
The post An App for Hacking Fertility Now Also Works for Men appeared first on WIRED.
Transactional emails. Boring topic, right? Not on your life. Transactional emails are the updates you send your customers—the ones that welcome them to your site, send them their login credentials, confirm a purchase, or other information that verifies a transaction—and they’re ripe for optimization. In most cases, these emails are automated, which is why they’re [...]
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Tesla isn't a car company. It's a battery company that happens to make electric cars.
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Once again, Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer host Sonia Simone is jazzed to have four great questions from the audience about marketing and business. How do you move forward when you’ve made a big change with your business? How do you get the confidence to launch your product? And just what is Sonia’s evil ulterior
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Twitter is starting to realize it has more to lose by staying silent on the issue of abuse.
The post Why Twitter Is Finally Taking a Stand Against Trolls appeared first on WIRED.
The purpose of the subheadline is two-fold. Standing out to a reader is its first purpose. The second purpose is a little more complex. Imagine your average reader. She has fallen in love with your headline. It’s a good one. It’s a humdinger. And now she is scrolling down the page, evaluating whether or not
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"Mobile-geddon" it's not. But Google's latest changes to its search algorithm are a reminder of how Google uses its market power to accelerate change.
The post Google’s Search Update Will Remake the Web in Its Own Image appeared first on WIRED.
You can’t please everyone. And do you know what? You shouldn’t even try to. If you do, you will end up playing it safe… being predictable and being ignored. Ouch! That’s not a smart move for any business owner, who wants to grow a successful business. Why? Because it’s impossible to achieve any kind of […]
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One day we’ll look back at this period in history as the big swindle known as social media marketing. But on the upside, we’ll also view these times as the point when companies big and small realized the importance of owning their own home base and enticing prospects not only to visit, but to experience.
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Is Google’s mobile-friendly search ranking update, due to land on April 21, the end of the world? Probably not, but with people talking about Mobilegeddon and the Mopocalypse, you might think it is. Let’s step back from the hyperbole for a minute. Google’s update probably isn’t the end of the world. Why We Should Have [...]
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The Internet is packed with people offering tricks, to make your business super successful, super fast. It’s easy to see why. There are thousands of small business owners, worried that their business isn’t growing fast enough. To them, the promise of a shortcut or growth hack can be irresistible. When things seem too good to […]
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A brief video guide to the booming business of legal marijuana.
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With all the talk of the developing world leapfrogging into the mobile era, Endless wants to help bridge the global digital divide with a new kind of PC.
The post The Innovative OS That’ll Bring PCs to the Developing World appeared first on WIRED.
As this ad from the early '80s shows, Samsung was so unknown in the West that its pitch boiled down to "names don't matter."
The post Tech Time Warp of the Week: When Samsung Tried to Woo the West With Boomboxes appeared first on WIRED.
Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new unit to help tech startups work with, instead of against, the government.
The post Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government appeared first on WIRED.
Let’s face it. Social media is one of those warm, fuzzy, but murky activities that exist in the business world. It can be a conversation — a cocktail party — or a content distribution channel. For some, it’s both. And more! Regardless of how we choose to use it, we naturally have to ask: What’s
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Do you want to be more successful in business? Then maybe you need to take some risk. Much of the reason more businesses don’t accelerate faster is because their owners are afraid of risk. What if it fails? What if people think I’m stupid? What if I lose customers? Life itself is a risk, and [...]
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In the movie Amadeus, the creatively frustrated composer Antonio Salieri discovers pages of Mozart’s original, handwritten compositions and remarks, with utter anguish: He had simply written down music already finished in his head. Page after page of it — as if he were just taking dictation. When it comes to writing, do any of us
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is always evolving and your strategy must evolve with it. Aside from user intent, covered in CrazyEgg’s last SEO roundup, here are some of the other issues to think about, especially in relation to conversions. Image: Pixabay 1. Optimize All Content In Your SEO Strategy Guide for Inbound Content, Julie Neumark [...]
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After discovering that content marketing was the perfect fit for her online business, Editor-in-Chief host Stefanie Flaxman realized she had a lot of work to do. What was she going to write about? If Stefanie just copied what other freelance copy editors wrote about on their blogs or copied GrammarGirl, her writing wouldn’t stand out.
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You don’t become an exceptional writer by galloping recklessly into the ring. There’s more to conquering obscurity and overcoming neglect. Four things, in fact. Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth always considered himself more lover than fighter. A soft-skinned, head-in-the-clouds poet. If he were a betting man, he’d put his money on the Internet. “Swallow up
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The Rainmaker Platform is only one year old, but it’s ready to turn pro. If you’re not familiar with Rainmaker, it’s the complete solution for building your online marketing and sales platform. With the Rainmaker Platform, you can: Create powerful, content-driven websites on your own domains. Build membership sites and online training courses. Sell digital
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How many blog posts have you read today? If you ask me, I’d put that number at around twenty at the very minimum. Social media posts, videos and other forms of content aside, that would be my approximate blog count for the day. Why? Because there is such abundance of content, and a lot of [...]
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