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Bid for Profitability, not Pride: The ROI Revolution Blog - http://www.roirevolution.com/blog...
With PPC, you don't always get the gold for being in first place. While having your ad in higher positions tends to yield more clicks and therefore more conversions than lower spots, it doesn't always ensure the best return on investment.
- James Guske
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Effective Link Building: One Major Ingredient - http://www.clicknewz.com/2110/
"An effective link building campaign requires one major ingredient: variation."
- James Guske
from Bookmarklet
Under construction now.
- James Guske
Topics & Guests - SSWT Discussion Forum - http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/members...
This is an open thread for you to vote for upcoming topics & guests on the weekly Free Webinar. Who would you like to hear from, or what would you most like to learn more about?
- James Guske
comScore and OPA Findings on Display Ads - http://bitbriefs.com/2009...
Display Ads Drive Site Engagement. Those exposed to ads spent 34 minutes per unique visitor on the sites exposed. This is hard to believe in terms of the time spent on site and the amount of “lift”. Maybe it just measures the vagaries of site architecture and navigation.
- James Guske
Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg - http://www.techipedia.com/2009...
Somewhere down the line, an exploitation has to occur in order for a financial profit to be realized. This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel..
- James Guske
Who Is Saving Your Tweets As Favourites? Favstar Lets You Know | Twittercism - http://twittercism.com/favstar...
Favstar collects all the Twitter submissions that have been marked as favorites by users – which includes your tweets, those of your friends, and everybody else – and ranks them accordingly.
- James Guske
Thies vs West: SEO Guide Comparison - http://www.clicknewz.com/2041/
Jerry also goes into the entire suite of Google tools, and how you should use them to your advantage. He also talks about the supplemental index - and how to stay out of it, as well as how to get reinclusion.
- James Guske
Why Shouldn’t I Write My Own Resume? | EmploymentDigest.net - http://www.employmentdigest.net/2009...
I’ve found that the majority of my clients attempt to write their own resume and only seek the help of a professional after weeks of failure. There are many reasons they fail, but most tend to be associated with ineffective resume templates designed in the 1990s which are not compatible with today’s keyword searches done by recruiters and hiring managers. I am dismayed to think of the number of opportunities that highly qualified candidates have lost to those less qualified but have a better understanding of today’s job search process.
- James Guske
Calls to Action That Get You More Traffic More Leads and More Money - http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/622...
Its all about money sites, feeder sites, calls to action and what you need to do right now to grab more traffic, more leads and make more money.
- James Guske
Internet Marketing: Successes or Scams? | ClappingTree’s Web 2.0 - http://www.clappingtrees.com/archive...
Basically, each guru suggested offering a freebie to lure prospects to a site and into giving their email addresses. Then the hardsell process begins in earnest: A one-time irresistible offer is made online and the specially designed website starts to sell in almost all possible ways (upsell, downsell, cross-sell, etc.) until the prospect yields to temptation and pays up.
- James Guske
Basically, each guru suggested offering a freebie to lure prospects to a site and into giving their email addresses. Then the hardsell process begins in earnest: A one-time irresistible offer is made online and the specially designed website starts to sell in almost all possible ways (upsell, downsell, cross-sell, etc.) until the prospect yields to temptation and pays up.
- James Guske
Retweeting Is The New Linkback – Could It Be? | SheGeeks.net - http://shegeeks.net/retweet...
Retweets are so much easier to create from Twitter’s site or a client.
- James Guske
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Are Job Coaches Worth It? | EmploymentDigest.net - http://www.employmentdigest.net/2009...
"The recession may be leaving millions of people unemployed, but for one profession it’s been more of a boom: the job guru field."
- James Guske
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HOW TO: Stumble Upon Great Twitter Links [feedly] - http://mashable.com/2009...
Interesting Firefox toolbar StumbleTweets.
- James Guske
Innovation Crowdsourcing Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... -Interesting about this as I was just researching this tool (via @paultran888).
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Wiki-s (for research), blogs (for opinions), now Webstorms for ideas or insights.
- James Guske
Deloitte’s 2009 Ethics & Workplace Survey Examines the Reputational Risk Implications of Social Networks #deloittesurvey http://www.deloitte.com/dtt....
I wonder if "Reputational Risk" is a new term to scare people off social networks.
- James Guske
How I Got My Job as a Talent Attraction Manager - Amybeth Hale | How I Got My Job - http://howigotmyjob.com/2009...
"Excellent example of how building and maintaining the right kind of connections before you need them"
- James Guske
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30 Days 30 Free Videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Great YouTube business tip: strategy before tactics. Tracy Gardner explains why.
- James Guske
The really cool Twitter/friendfeed users were on those services "before they were Scobleized." Were you? Check in here with your story:
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I'm pretty sure I was on Twitter BS (before Scobleized), but not FF. FF is where I heard of Scoble, and followed his lead by making FF my homepage.
- shaun mclane
I made my Friend Feed account way before we met at Gnomedex last year, but it was after meeting you that I started being active. So that is your fault. Twitter however was the first micro-blogging (for lack of a better term) site I was active on. I think Leo is to blame for that one.
- MarkCarras
Was on Friendfeed when it was in beta looking for something to show all of the social networks I was at in one place. I think I joined a few days before it became open to the public. Come to think of it I signed up to Friendfeed before I did Twitter.
- Michael Ryan
scoble, i think its going to be more "before it was oprah-ised", they've got some hashtag in twitter going now...
- Terry O'Fee
I was on Twitter early but heard of FF through you
- Mike Brewer
Was on both before I heard of you.. I learned of you through someones tweet.
- Drew Paul
Mark: Leo is to blame for getting me to really use Twitter too.
- Robert Scoble
i discovered twitter through the madness that is warren ellis. i dont know if you were here before or after. no idea.
- Terry O'Fee
Leo and Kevin Rose were my inspiration to use Twitter. I was a Pownce user before that.
- Jesse Stay
When did you start on FF, Robert? I didn't join because of you but I can't remember if you were here when I started or not... I know eventually I "found" you on here and started following.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I believe I got on Friendfeed just a hair before you started getting really popular here.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Scoble: Leo is to blame for a great many things. :D
- MarkCarras
Honestly, I think I was skipping most of what you wrote before I was on FF or twitter and was just using Google Reader to follow stories. However, once here on FF where I was able to see the discussions around the stories I have quickly started reading and paying attention more to what you have to say.
- John Spyers
Lindsay: I was on friendfeed the last week of February 2008 if I remember right.
- Robert Scoble
Duncan Riley bought FF to my attention when he called Loius Gray a nasty name. remember that little shitstorm http://twitter.com/duncanr...
- James Beake
Ok, then you were definitely before me... I started sometime last April... I guess it's about my anniversary now!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I was on Twitter and FriendFeed before they were Oprah-ized
- Hutch Carpenter
I thought I was on Twitter BS, but turns out according to Twitterholic.com Scoble was on nearly 5 months before me! Guess it's all a blur. Pretty sure I was on Plurk before Scoble....oh, he's not on Plurk. Incidentally, Scoble joined Twitter 11-20-2006. As far as FF, I thought Scoble pretty much put it on the map, singlehandedly.
- Paul Salzman
I started in Twitter in March 2007, but how do I find my commencement date here?
- Ian May
Louis Gray got me on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
I must admit that I need the scobleizer to get me on certain services...
- Troy Malone
Pfft: of course Scoble was here before me. But I feel like I've been using both ff and twitter forever at this point.
- Susan Reynolds
My first Tweet was in March of 2007 on my Jeber account. Referred by Chris Pirillo, as I recall.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I can't remember when I started using FriendFeed. I think it was shortly after Scoble though.
- Jesse Stay
I think with the username /and, I might have you beat on FF Robert. Twitter you surely were in before me.
- Andrew Leahey
Joined FF before Scoble because I saw it was by some ex-googlers :P Way after Scoble on Twitter though.
- Brandon Titus
So Scoble, where are we all going next?
- shaun mclane
Chris Pirillo turned me onto both Twitter & FF--Scoble was already here (and there).
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Joined Twitter June-07 and FriendFeed (in beta) Oct-07. Mostly consuming value rather than adding it.
- Ryan Miller
I was on Socialmedian, Strands, FriendFeed, Toluu, ReadBurner, RSSmeme, before Scoble. :)
- Louis Gray
Scoble got me on to Google Reader. Fighting with Mark Hopkins of Mashable got me on to Twitter. Feedheads got me on to Facebook.
- Louis Gray
I registered and used both before becoming communication active with you Robert, but I will confess that because of you I am now 10x times more active on FF that I was prior
- Keith Barrett
I got on Twitter because of you, and FF because of you. Other things I do because they are beta and I love beta. Or even alpha. I can put up with a lot of discomfort to see if something's going to be interesting.
- Francine Hardaway
No, man, I follow you wherever you go like a dumb little zombie.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I'm with Francine. We may have a beta addiction that we need a 10 step program for
- Susan Reynolds
Shaun: that is the big question, isn't it? Based on how many people are trying to get me to participate, FourSquare is the next thing for early adopter types.
- Robert Scoble
I was on FF, but really decided to check it daily and make an effort to contribute after it was Scobelized...
- Jamie Ginsberg
What is FourSquare? Got a link? Google turned up nothing useful...
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad: Third result on google, http://playfoursquare.com/
- Brandon Titus
So does that mean that once Scoble is on a service it's no longer cool?
- xero
Ahh - I figured no way did that look interesting. LOL After taking a moment or two looking at it, it does seem like it has possibility, but it looks like no one is fooling with it here in Phoenix. I'll give it a few months and see if it generates more buzz. I'm a technophile, but I'm not an earliEST adopter.
- Chrimmus Tad
Xero: for some alpha geeks? Yes, that's exactly what it means! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not sure if I was on either service before Scoble. I actually seriously doubt I was...but I also doubt the service was any different having been scobleized. I followed Louis Gray here to FF, though. I think I do remember him getting Scoble here.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Well Robert I should have listened harder when you said FriendFeed was the place to be. I signed up but admit I only used FF to monitor a few rooms. Funny you should post this question on the day I had a FriendFeed epiphany and made the decision to go full gorilla.
- Jesse Newhart
Jeremiah Owyang's post had me met cool tweeters and more.. I was silently and rarely visit my friendfeed until I knew Mona and learned that she was a prominent friendfeeder..
- Pico Seno
I joined FF in September '07, the week before the first beta launched. I'm not an early adopter, just a mainsteamer with connections!
- Anne Bouey
It was in July 2007 that I signed up to Twitter and FF so definitely not before Scoble... although, you were one of the first tweeps I noticed and followed. I wouldn't be without them now. Both Twitter and FF are useful in my business and I'm learning more each day!
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
I was after Scobleizer. I actually joined after I heard Leo Laporte mention it on TWiT. I didn't know what Twitter was at first. I found out about FF after Steve Issacs mentioned it at Twitter.
- Molly, "sorry"
I joined both Twitter and Friendfeed yet before i first stepped on your blog ;) And BTW, not meaning to offend you Robert, but before i started reading your Frendfeed i never read anything of your - i thought you were a... Wellm something that Arrington has become now (with all the respect to him) =) Now you are my top priority source of trusted metadata =)
- Kirill Bolgarov
Kirill: I'm an aaarrrroogggannntttt bbbaaahhhssstttaaarrrrrddddd. You can say it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Or at least I was until @ev took away my license. :-)
- Robert Scoble
no, I didn't join twitter until you drove me over the edge one day with your constant yammering about it when I was jumping up and down trying to get your attention about Julie Amero. It drove me to a rant and a challenge, which I ended up answering by joining twitter. LOL. I did join Friendfeed right away, before it caught fire with you, but it took me the better part of a year to figure out how to use it.
- Karoli
there's joining and then there's using... very different thing. Many of us have signed up on many things we don't really use except the occasional "how has it changed?" test, but should it become popular some will go "noobs, i was there early". Sure, there is satisfaction to having seen the value first, or even helped build it, but are we sure we did see the value and helped build it,...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I think it was JJ talking about it on twiiter, myself...
- Terry O'Fee
The one thing I know is I signed up for friendfeed before I signed up for twitter. I think next month marks my first year on ff. I started right around the same time as Robert did, if I’m not mistaken. I can’t remember, but I think it was a press release, which brought me here. I remember reading about it several times that week. Other than what I had read, I signed up not knowing what to expect. I don’t remember if I participated my first day, either
- Michael Fidler
. But, I can recall the conversations that day fairly well. I remember Robert making comments about how much less noise there was here. He was excited at the prospect of being able to have longer conversations, finally. He also loved the idea of rooms, and the different uses they might have. I also remember that everyone else was tired of the Fail Whale, and friendfeed might be a...
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- Michael Fidler
Robert: maybe just a little if you insist ;) But to be serious, coming back to Twitter vs. Friendfeed discussion: to me it's about context. On FrF you have tons of it, maximum one click away,and most of the time it's even embedded! Twitter is like web search - you have to make zillions of clicks and maybe, *maybe*, then you will find out the context of the conversation. That's why i didn't follow you (along with some other people) much - because basically all I saw the tweets, which were out of context.
- Kirill Bolgarov
If the target is lucrative enough spammers will find a way to circumvent the system. Rooms at this point seem particularly vulnerable.
- Brian Sullivan
I was on Twitter before Scoble got in.
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
I just realized I've been saying it wrong all along.
- Craig Brownell
I'm decidedly uncool then, as I'm sure I joined both services after Robert.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
LOL, it was Louis Gray that showed the way for me. Sorry Robert, :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dan: why be sorry? It was Louis who got me on friendfeed too!
- Robert Scoble
I discovered FF through you. Changed my online experience ! Thanks.
- Guy Vander Heyden
@Robert - Awesome.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I knew about Twitter from nonRS sources. However, Twitter did lead me to RS who then led me to FF. I did resist until the new Beta, however. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
robert I am guessing we joined the services around the same time. i think I was one of the first 1300 people on twitter and pretty early on FF as well. so probably pretty close.
- (jeff)isageek
I don't know if it counts if you are the type that signs up for anything that launches.
- coldbrew
You were on twitter before me but I am pretty sure that I was on FriendFeed before you. It seems like I had to pull you in as imaginary.
- Seek Ground
I was on facebook before you. I remeber when you joined and I was able to "be your friend" within the first couple hundred.
- Christian Burns
Joined Twitter last September and was FF months before that. Twitter is "played". Too noisy. FF is so much better. Will be spending most of my time here.
- Carlo At Your Service
i have an idea and thought that friendfeed.com domain suits very well. enter the site and then the awesomeness begins by luck.
- İzzet Emre Kutlu
I did not realize the value of friendfeed until Scoble was accused to be an addict by Arrington. :-)
- Martin Seibert
I was on FriendFeed.com about 1 week after they launched in early 2008. Joined Twitter in Feb 2008. I had heard of Scobleizer only a little bit, but was hearing him make more and more noise on the tubes! @Spin Eric Rice gave me the URL link to FriendFeed. Then this guy LG, err.. umm... oh yeah... Louis Gray kept pimping FF, so I stuck around a while and wow, it's all been good ever since! Robert Scoble "Scobleizer" soon became another great person to follow on FF... you guys all rock!! woo hooo!!1
- Susan Beebe
Martin - I was a fervent defender of Scoble on that TechCrunch blog post re "Scoble needs intervention" crap. Mike didn't "get" FriendFeed; in fact, he STILL doesn't value FF...augh! I love Mike anyway, but man catch already! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Twitter was because of an article I read about it, but FF was because Scoble was the first person I followed on Twitter and he was just starting to discuss FF.
- David Cook
I found twitter, ff, and Robert Scoble via Ed Dale and the Thirty Day Challenge 08. Glad to have found all 3!
- LeighaB
Yes I actually was on FF before becoming Scobelize which oddly enough I found through Facebook as sort of famousfriend Ryan Leech famous Canadian Norco mountain biker http://friendfeed.com/rleech keeps us updated through FF. The rest in terms of being Scobelized is history PS he could help you with your mountain bike question: though i'm sure he'd say Norco all the way
- sofarsoShawn
I was on Twitter before I ran into Robert Scoble. However, he talked enough about FF that I decided to figure out what he was talking about. Here I am!
- Damond Nollan
No to twitter, yes to friendfeed. Surprised it took you a while to get on friendfeed. I enjoy all that you do. Thanks.
- Harold Cabezas
What Harold said.
- Bruce Lewis
I have no idea.
- Anthony Citrano
I was on Twitter after you, but I think I got on FF around the same time, though at the time I was thinking it wasn't that great, I am sorry to say.
- Neal Jansons
I have to admit I never heard of you before I got on Twitter, but followed you because of stuff you posted. I think it was you who brought me to Friendfeed in March 2008 and I'll be always grateful for that ;-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
Nope after Scoble for, twitter and FriendFeed, joined both due to the TWiT effect (ie. constant talking about them on TWiT shows). But was on Jaiku and Vox before Leo and Scoble, unfortunately Jaiku use has died down in the last few months. Jaiku's threaded comments are still superior to twitter for conversation any day of the week.
- LonelyBob
New web 2.0 terms: "Scobleized" and "Oprah-ized"
- James Guske
Yeap; joined twitter in April 2007, and FriendFeed soon after launch. But was anything ever not Scobleized?
- Keith Barrett
YouTube - ISYOT Effect - Why Be "Somewhere" When You Can Be "Everywhere?" - Paul Colligan - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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http://www.paulcolligan.com Paul Colligan examines the ISYOT effect and how it's attainable (and cheap) in the 2.0 Web. Content created using the New Media ...
- Paul Colligan
Produce content that goes everywhere in the 2.0 Web. Paul Colligan explains.
- James Guske
Bio Characteristics of Twitter Power Users - http://blog.hubspot.com/blog...
"Wowza, Dan! This is totally fascinating and extremely valuable! Thanks a mil for putting your brilliant brain to such good work. lol! @marismith"
- Mari Smith
The Twitter bio is yet another area of social media advice rife with guesswork
- James Guske
Surprising Job Growth--And Where to Find it - http://education.yahoo.net/degrees...
"The numbers keep rolling in. We're still in an economic decline. Construction lost 110,000 jobs in January 2009, which put industry losses at over one million jobs since early 2007 Manufacturing lost 207,000 jobs this past January, the largest one-month decline since 1982 Retail lost 45,000 jobs, warehousing lost 44,000, and temporary work dropped nearly 80,000 positions, all in January Even finance lost 42,000 jobs"
- Vincent Wright
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Medical physicists make over $130,000 yearly.
- James Guske
“WP Tips: Add Gravatar Support to Your WordPress Comments - http://tinyurl.com/6msbjy” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Not only can Gravatars be used for comments, but they can also be added to author’s individual posts as well.
- James Guske
I pity the fool who doesn't hire A-players in this recession. - http://blog.summation.net/2009...
"Let’s face it, these great, A-Player type people are just really hard to find. Let’s say for sake of argument that A-players make up 1% of the population that could do the job, B-players are 19%, and C-players comprise the other 80%. It’s uncertain if these percentages are accurate, but there definitely are more C-Players than B-players and more B-players than A-players. Now if people find out you are hiring (through a Craigslist ad, posted on careers page, etc.), it probably means you are going to get a massive influx of resumes from C-players. Many of these resumes will be indistinguishable from those of A-players (it’s always hard to distinguish on paper). Which means the amount of noise (aka undesirable hires) will likely increase. Which means more work sifting through these resumes and talking to many more people."
- James Guske
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Your New Office Due To Financial Crisis And Budget Cuts | Fortune Watch - http://www.fortunewatch.com/your-ne...
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LOL!
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Review your Linkedin profile regularly especially if your office looks like this.
- James Guske
hahahaha James :-)
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
I think this is new. Twitter now has a little button that says "More."
Iván Abrego, Bill Romanos, Kol Tregaskes and 13 other people liked this
This has been there for a week for me. They gave up on pageviews obviously. Works well.
- Robert Accettura
Huh, I thought that was from Power Twitter. Very cool as a cosmetic change. I like the minor tweaks they have been rolling out with the UI.
- Brandon Mendelson
This was really necessary. The old navigation (older/newer) was totally broken, because it worked with pagenumbers instead of the ascending tweet-id; this could cause severe problems when there came in more new tweets than you needed time to switch to the next page.
- Malte Steckmeister
Somewhat new. It's the Ajax interface people discussed a while back.
- Louis Gray
Louis, does it finally refresh again?
- Steve Rubel
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twitter gives up on pageviews. Now more like facebook's newsfeed.
- James Guske
I do not believe it refreshes. You have to do that manually.
- Louis Gray
It doesn't refresh...you still have to do this manually although eventually I hope they'll make it refresh.
- Nicholas James
I just noticed this to - but I am not often on the actual site because it isn't really that usable. LOL.
- Tony
Tony how don't you find Twitter.com itself usable?
- Nicholas James
Would you Like Forums With that? [31 Days to Build a Better Blog] - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
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- James Guske
12 work-relevant characteristics of online life (Facebook Gen vs Fortune 500) http://blogs.wsj.com/managem... [SH: Brilliant!]
Too idealistic. Gen F is not in charge yet.
- James Guske
HR Executives Report Job Cuts to Increase; Stress the Importance of Keeping the Door Open for Outgoing Employees - http://www.selectminds.com/jsp...
"parting ways with workers is no longer viewed as something that comes to an abrupt end, but rather an opportunity to nurture a life-long relationship."
- James Guske
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Here's a better link for the Selective Twitter Status Facebook app: http://www.facebook.com/apps... works like a charm.
Selective twitter status for Facebook. Update your status with tweets you want.
- James Guske
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