Bye Bye Facebook
Ajith | | 5 Comments
It’s been two years since I stopped using Twitter as a medium to actively promote my ideas. At the moment, my twitter usage is restricted to tweeting about any relevant (not all) blog posts alone. And I must say that I never found twitter that interesting and hence didn’t really miss it.
My facebook affair is a different story! In fact, I have had a reasonable number of real life friends, family people and blogosphere-social-virtual friends connected via my Facebook profile. I must say that Facebook was kind of helpful for my work, business as well as social needs. But when I weighed Facebook’s advantages v/s disadvantages, I thought it’s about time I quit facebook! Continue Reading →
Holiday Season Online Marketing Tips
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The US online spending this year’s holiday season (Nov – Dec) was at its peak with Americans spending $35 billion (Nov 1 to Dec 26, 2011). This figure has gone up from $30 billion from last year by 15% and the biggest online sale day this year was the Cyber Monday where $1 billion was spent only on online shopping.
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Top PPC Advertising Networks Comparison
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Over the past two years, I have spent close to $3,500 on PPC Advertising. Of course, that kind of spending resulted in decent returns but the reality is that, only 3 ad networks out of the 8 or 9 that I tried, actually returned anything significant.
Based on my experience, here’s a table that contain the good and bad aspects of those best PPC ad networks that I experimented with and my rating of them from an advertiser’s point of view. Please note that many of you may have a different story to talk about your specific campaigns and hence please pitch in with your comments. Continue Reading →
Social Trading in Online Forex gaining Momentum
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Online Forex trading, though very easy to get started, is not so easy to master. A lot of people who want to make instant money, directly start with the online forex tools without having done their homework and end up losing money.
In the good old times, there was always a broker, market analyst or portfolio manager who assisted you with your stock, commodity or forex trading activities. With the web technologies with its social media aspects bringing traders very close to the market and fellow traders, there’s this new emerging trend of social trading – especially in the online forex trading space. Let’s understand what is social trading! Continue Reading →