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Twitter Conferences Are All The Rage

As part of the Internet marketing industry have you done the conference circuit? Have you been to SES, SMX (put cardinal direction here), Adtech, PubCon etc, etc? On a yearly basis how many of these trips can you justify or get away with?

Reasons Twitter Should Start Charging For Their Service

I am going to write something that is likely to be unpopular. Today I experienced a "perfect storm" of sorts regarding the Internet and the idea of free is good. This apparent entitlement mentality that is pervasive among Internet users that everything should free is going to potentially ruin a lot of good opportunities. Of course, all of this is in my opinion so you can take it for what it's worth. At least reading it is free, right?

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10 Great Ways To Use Twitter To Your Business's Advantage

Twitter is the latest web-centric communications service to explode onto the scene, and businesses have moved in rapidly. However, a little discretion goes a long way, as the users of "social" sites and services have demonstrated that they will stomach only so much commercialization of what they consider their personal space. As MySpace evolved from an upstart new kid on the block where everyone let everything "hang out" to a part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire, people who'd had enough began looking for other places. This influenced the rise of Facebook.

The Changing Landscape of Twitter

A study was released today, conducted by inbound marketing company HubSpot, which looked at 4.5 million Twitter users over a nine month period.

YouTube Has More Expenses Than Revenue

First, the good news. YouTube is the most popular video site on the Internet. They’ill make $240 million in revenue. They just signed a deal with Disney to help bring in that money.

Twitter's Ad Platform Shows Some Savvy

So why the quotation marks around the word ads in the title? It’s like that age old question of if a tree falls in the forest but there is no one there to hear it does it make a sound? This version however reads like, “If you place and “ad” on a website and nobody paid for it is it an “ad”?

Contxts Shows Off SMS Business Cards

Even among the tech savvy, pretty paper business cards are still the norm. Any tech conference in the country you go to will lead to a pocket full of them, some you may even use. This year at SXSW, some cutting edge types had these old world formalities only as backups. Instead, they asked a question you might hear a lot more of in the future: Are you on Contxts? Lately we’ve all been hearing similar questions in other situations: Are you on [Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter]? Those same companies might want to look very closely at Contxts’ concept.

Big Businesses Coming Up Short In SEO

A study published recently by Conductor, Inc. and reported in MediaPost today gives some interesting insights into the world of big business and organic search. It seems as if they either haven’t been introduced completely or they simply don’t get along.

Measuring Success Of Social Media For Business

At Econsultancy today, Editor-in-chief Chris Lake is putting social media measurement into perspective: The key with social media measurement, I think, is to stand back and take a widescreen approach to measurement.