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By now you've heard the news—your paid marketing and advertising efforts are suffering from a loss of credibility with your target market. Marketing authorities Al Ries and daughter Laura have even declared the "Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR" when it comes to building brands and perceptions in the minds of consumers. In effect, mar  More...
Personal branding guru Dan Schawbel recently interviewed me for his Personal Branding Blog. Dan is the author of the book, Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (April 2009) and is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation.  More...
Cell phone A number of Verizon Wireless employees accessed and viewed President-elect Barack Obama's personal cell phone account without authorization, Verizon Wireless President and CEO, Lowell McAdam said in a statement issued late Thursday.  More...
An experienced California litigator shares the secrets of how she gets the other side's witnesses to open up during depositions--and how you can apply this powerful communication technique in all of your personal and professional relationships.  More...
Lenovo's Protection Service offers a performance-related insurance to enterprise and individual users' notebooks, arising out of accidental drop or an inadvertent liquid spill. Unlike traditional insurance companies which cover for damage/ loss from extraneous factors, Lenovo's Protection Service is specifically geared towards issues arising ou  More...
Here are the five solid, complete, and intuitive main ideas Kram and Higgins put forward and suggestions after each for building your own Personal Developmental Network.  More...
We spend a lot of money on business development. We spring an average of $2,000 per person to send folks to conferences and trade shows in pursuit of the almighty warm lead. We golf with our clients, with our clients friends. We buy cocktails, break bread together, all in the name of establishing favorable connections on a personal level. We hope  More...
I recently had the opportunity to try out DeepDyve.com, a new deep Web search engine. After uploading my personal information and confirming my e-mail address, I was extended the privilege of free searching. DeepDyve allows and encourages enormous keyword strings and complex queries. Given the amount of data that DeepDyve is collecting, I was sure  More...
Within the past week, you made one of the most significant decisions of your life time. Are the other major decisions you've made in your life working out favorably? Or are you living with "consequences" from bad decisions in the past?  More...
If you’re promoting on Digg, you’re losing your blog money. The web is crowded, attention spread thin. It may not cost you a $70,000 full page print ad, but building a following requires patience and passion. It’s almost 2009, and the social media personal brand isn’t an early adopters’ secret anymore. Promoting your blog can be free, but not cost  More...
A lot had changed in the past 7 years... or has it? If you had followed traditional investment strategy and invested for the "long term", your portfolio today would be worth 26.1% less than it was in 2001. So what is the one investment that won't falter? There is only one such investment.  More...
There are a number of tools that aggregate plenty of useful SEO related information on one page. The idea is that you can quickly evaluate any page and get an instant access to each individual source for more information. I can’t say I use them very often but at times that’s really very convenient when you need a quick SEO overview (the star-ratin  More...
There is another copy cat site of google adwords to steal your log in data. Or to drop a Trojan into your pc and they can steal all your personal info or drop a virus that can destroy your pc.  More...
Since 2002, we who advocate the paid search niche of marketing have been pretty vocal about how much more this stuff can do than people realize. It’s not pure direct marketing, we’ve pleaded. It can do other stuff too! It can sing, dance, weld, flutter, soar, and giggle. It deodorizes, disinfects, scours, and scrubs - without scratching (unless th  More...
One of the reasons that you're creating a website to promote your business or other personal interest is to get the word out to an international audience. To do that properly there are more than a few things you'll need to consider and one of these things is design.  More...