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The next time you design a web site, its okay to take it for a joy-ride. You’ve earned that right. But, make sure you throw the keys to other drivers and let them take it on the highway or down the street to Starbucks. These people are your user testing hero’s.  More...
Most companies are struggling with how to adapt to serve a new wave of consumers from the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) - those born between 1982 and 2001 - according to a global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent company Genesys. The survey asked C-level and other senior executives from around the world how they a  More...
Lately I’ve been pondering the part that social media plays in my blogging business. This post is an attempt to make some sense of it. I’d value your thoughts in comments to help me take these half thought through ideas to something more concrete. Those who have been following me for a while know that I not only spend a lot of time on my blogs b  More...
Having a mentor is helpful because someone who has already been there and done that can shorten your learning curve saving you time, money and failure.  More...
Before you start reading this, take a quick look at something very important: your own blog. What do you see when you glance at the Categories list? If you’re anything like most bloggers, it will include categories which: * You used a couple of years ago but don’t use any more * Have only one or two posts in * Have names that aren  More...
Before you start reading this, take a quick look at something very important: your own blog. What do you see when you glance at the Categories list? If you’re anything like most bloggers, it will include categories which: * You used a couple of years ago but don’t use any more * Have only one or two posts in * Have names that aren  More...
Want to know how the stock market affects everyone, including small business owners like you? Economist Mike Donnelly says "You could have placed your 401k in a passbook savings account and done better [over the past 10.5 years]."  More...
When McKenzie Tuttle walked down the aisle to say “I do” to her husband-to-be Jeff Bezos, she thought she was marrying into a secure future. At the time, Bezos was in his 30s and serving as Vice President of an investment firm in New York City. It was a job he liked – and one that paid well – but Bezos couldn’t shake this crazy idea from his head;  More...
Procrastination is not a time-management problem. It’s a complex problem involving personality, situations and motivation. Here are three psychologically sound tips to help us procrastinators overcome this problem.  More...
YouTube Insight as we know, provides detailed statistics about the videos that you upload allowing you to see how often your videos are viewed in the different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. Today, YouTube Insight has gotten slightly better. And just as Google  More...
Building and maintaining a marketing database is a critical component of marketing and one that does use up a significant amount of time and resources. Here is a view on why it may just make more sense to consider outsourcing this activity.  More...
What is an ideal time to conduct a survey? The question of timing is an important one when considering when to gather feedback from your employees and/or customers. In this issue of the Critical Metrics Update, we answer this question by highlighting both good and bad times for conducting employee and customer surveys.  More...
Almost anyone can pull together a web-based survey using free or almost free survey tools available on the Internet. In fact, these do-it-yourself tools can help you save money and time by making use of resources already developed by professionals. However, as some of you might know from getting involved with some other do-it-yourself activities,  More...
IKEA promotes its new campaign dubbed ‘Come into the Closet’ by welcoming users into their website which looks like a video but functions as an online catalogue at the same time. The site is http://www.kominigarderoben.se/. Once in, you find yourself in a sort of open stage scenario displaying a repertoire of Ikea closet items together with sur  More...
Every time Google does a Page Rank update it sets the SEO community on fire with people constantly refreshing their url in multiple Google data centers to see if they have moved up or down.  More...