Well, it’s after Christmas — and after the after-Christmas sales. For many businesses, especially in retail and ecommerce, January can be a dead month — even in a good economy. Employee morale may plummet, and yours may not be so upbeat, either. How can you perk up your post-holiday bottom line? Here are seven suggestions: Have [...]
EBay’sPayPal unit plans to take on Groupon in early 2012 with a new service that will offer coupons based on users’ buying habits and mobile phone locations. PayPal has partnered with 200 U.S. merchants for the offering, says Anuj Nayar, a PayPal rep. The service will launch in the first quarter of next year. Nayar [...]
Genius Idea: Although review sites can be handy while trying to secure a last-minute hotel reservation or — deep breath — finding a hair salon in a new neighborhood, nothing evokes more confidence than taking the recommendation of a friend whose tastes you know and trust. But there doesn’t yet exist a convenient platform or [...]
The headlines were unequivocal – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had announced that email is dead. The truth however was a little more prosaic. At the launch of the social network’s new messaging platform, he had said “we don’t think a modern messaging system is going to be email”, and that the new system was “not [...]
Whenever we go on vacation as a family and leave the house completely empty, I always worry that someone is going to break into my home, take my desktop computer, and steal my data and my identity. I don’t actually worry that much about anything else in the house, since almost all of our stuff [...]
Google‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to a stamp of approval from Google users. Over the past few months, +1s have appeared next to news articles, on websites and even in ads. [...]
Steve Jobs’ impact on your life cannot be overestimated. His innovations have likely touched nearly every aspect — computers, movies, music and mobile. As a communications coach, I learned from Jobs that a presentation can, indeed, inspire. For entrepreneurs, Jobs’ greatest legacy is the set of principles that drove his success. Over the years, I’ve [...]
Hamilton Chan is CEO and founder of Paperlinks, which provides the leading QR code infrastructure for businesses. Codes generated through Paperlinks app can be scanned by the free Paperlinks iPhone app or by any QR code reader on any smartphone platform. While the debate rages on whether QR codes are a passing fad or a marketing phenomenon, those little suckers [...]
Club246 is an integrated Social Media marketing firm that provides a one–stop solution for business owners and marketing professionals. Understanding the challenges that businesses face when working with different vendors in different areas of marketing. We have developed an integrated, fail safe method that combines Internet technology with sound social media expertise. Today, Club246’s highly [...]
Much of our computing (including the storage of our personal data) is now being done remotely via the ‘cloud’. But what is it? Here is a brief history of this radical shift while, below, we assess the relative merits of four cloud computing services. ‘Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple used in [...]
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