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Stepcase Lifehack
Stepcase Lifehack
Einstein said that all great original ideas at first appear absurd.  This is why it is so easy to dismiss radical suggestions when they surface.  We point out that they are absurd and so miss great opportunities.  How would you react if an unorthodox business idea was presented to you and you cou...

Stepcase Lifehack | 9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am CST

Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills
Jeremy Schoemaker
ShoeMoney
A couple months ago we were getting about 10-20 solicitations a day from people wanting us to talk about their products… or their product for sale… or whatever. It seemed logical to give these people an outlet where they could get exposure on ShoeMoney.com & we could raise a dece...

Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills | 9 Feb 2010 | 6:53 am CST

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
Yesterday’s WSJ had an article about Canada’s Housing market. (Housing Rebound in Canada Spurs Talk of a New Bubble). The article noted that “Average home prices in Canada have risen 23% from their trough in January 2009. Home-sales volumes are up 70% over the same period . . . Can...

The Big Picture | 9 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am CST

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King"
Rick Schwartz
The Domain King
Morning Folks!!To understand this post you need to read this one that I wrote in May first or it will have no value and why waste your time? http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2009/05/screwing-with-success-a-change-more-important-than-the-presidency.html So we have the 15 second SuperBowl co...

The Rick Schwartz Domain and Traffic Blog RicksBlog.com...Home of the "Domain King" | 9 Feb 2010 | 6:06 am CST

Seth's Blog
Seth Godin
Seth's Blog
Can you factor this?If you're like most people, you get a little queasy at the thought. And when you were in tenth grade, you surely wondered why they were bothering you.(the answer is (x-2) times (x-2), in case you were curious.)It turns out that the real reason you needed to do this work was to be...

Seth's Blog | 9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am CST

chrisbrogan.com
Chris Brogan
Social Media
No, not your General Equivalent Degree. The GED to which I refer is “guest experience design.” What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you. Old words: customer service. New words: guest experience. Disney, where I am this week, has a concept called a Moment of Truth. A moment ...

chrisbrogan.com | 9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am CST

John Chow dot Com
John Chow
Make Money Online
For those who haven’t taken advantage of this yet, you have until midnight tonight to sign up to Become A Blogger for only $1. After tonight, Yaro and Gideon will close the door on their six month course. After the doors close, you won’t be able to get in for at least another six mo...

John Chow dot Com | 9 Feb 2010 | 12:43 am CST

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
One of the things I enjoy the most about blogs, especially blogs that are run by one individual, is analyzing why the blog is successful. What is the magic ingredient that makes this blog succeed, when so many others fail? Based on my observations, here are some of the elements you can apply to mak...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 9 Feb 2010 | 12:19 am CST

Commentary from Boris Schlossberg, Director of Research, GFT
Boris Schlossberg
Forex 360
High beta currencies rallied in early morning European trade today on back of speculation that authorities will help tackle Greece’s mounting fiscal problems at the EU summit this Thursday. News that Jean Claude Trichet will leave a meeting of policy makers in Sydney a day early to attend a gather...

Commentary from Boris Schlossberg, Director of Research, GFT | 9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am CST

Inside the Secret Life of a Super Affiliate - Zac Johnson dot Com
Zac Johnson
Super Affiliate Tips
If you had the choice between having $10,000 to build a web site from scratch, or to buy an established web site that is generating $500 a month, which would you choose? The market for buying established web sites has always been hot, but it’s always a tough decision as the auction clock count...

Inside the Secret Life of a Super Affiliate - Zac Johnson dot Com | 8 Feb 2010 | 11:51 pm CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
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The Frager Factor | 8 Feb 2010 | 11:36 pm CST

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
Matt Cutts
Gadgets, Google & SEO
Back in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM ...

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO | 8 Feb 2010 | 11:30 pm CST

eMarketer Articles
eMarketer
Articles
Marketers must connect business goals to social media objectives...

eMarketer Articles | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:01 pm CST

eMarketer Articles
eMarketer
Articles
Shorter spots see higher completion rates...

eMarketer Articles | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:01 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
The Domainer Mardi Gras conference will be held in New Orleans Thursday through Saturday. With the Mardi Gras celebration as a backdrop, DMG already had a lot of appeal and now with the city also celebrating the Saints first Super Bowl win the show is shaping up to be one people will never forget....

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:05 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
When you have secured a deal to purchase a domain name, especially one that has significant value, you need to do your due diligence. The most important research you need to do is to ensure the domain name is owned by the party that you think owns it, and the second is to make sure traffic/PR/direct...

Elliot's Blog | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:49 pm CST

John Chow dot Com
John Chow
Make Money Online
An increasing number of social media websites are finding that the only real way to structure advertisements so that they have any significant ROI for sponsors is to integrate them into the social nature of the website itself. StumbleUpon did this through the use of “paid stumbles” where they ...

John Chow dot Com | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:20 pm CST

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Ron Jackson
Domain Name Journal
DN Journal's comprehensive review of the DOMAINfest Global conference that ran January 26-28 in Santa Monica, California has just been published. Our wire to wire coverage has the show photos and details that you haven't seen yet!...

Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:18 pm CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
As you all know Godaddy.com ran 2 ads during the SuperBowl. According to USA Today’s Ad Meter which tracks viewers opinions of all the ads on the big game,  Godaddy’s commercial’s fumbled the ball. Out of the 63 commercials  USA Today tracks, the Godaddy.com ad featuring Danica P...

The Domains | 8 Feb 2010 | 4:41 pm CST

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
I don’t recall where this is from, but it seems appropriate today: ...

The Big Picture | 8 Feb 2010 | 4:30 pm CST

How To Make Money Online
Jonathan Volk
How to Make Money Online
Email Marketing is one of the "final frontiers" of internet marketing that has largely been kept very hard to learn. Just think about it... There is a PPC Coach., Media Buys Coach, PPV Coach, etc but no Email Coach program. In fact, in my years of internet marketing, I've met a few mailers and I was...

How To Make Money Online | 8 Feb 2010 | 4:10 pm CST

Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills
Jeremy Schoemaker
ShoeMoney
I thought it was brilliant. Well done Google. You told an amazing story without saying a word. Very powerful. What did you think? Get a sneak peak at the all new ShoeMoney System This Post Is From ShoeMoney’s Internet Marketing Blog Whats Your Thoughts On The Google Suberbowl Ad? ...

Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills | 8 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm CST

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
Some reads to start the week: • Alan Greenspan fights back (Fortune)  Four years after leaving the Fed as the Greatest Central Banker Ever, the longest-serving chairman, the Maestro, Alan Greenspan is the designated goat. • Dorfman: Buy Stock Now to Ride Second Stage of Bull Market (Bloomberg) ...

The Big Picture | 8 Feb 2010 | 2:30 pm CST

Zen Habits
Leo Babauta
Zen Habits
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. How does ’simple’ differ from ‘minimalist’? That’s the question someone asked me on Twitter recently, and it’s a good one. Zen Habits has become known as a leading simplicity blog, and at the same time I recently ...

Zen Habits | 8 Feb 2010 | 2:26 pm CST

CrossingWallStreet.com
Eddie Elfenbein
Crossing Wall Street
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CrossingWallStreet.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm CST

John Chow dot Com
John Chow
Make Money Online
The engineers at Porsche have developed a range-topping sports car designed to deliver the finest in terms of power, performance and driving dynamics: the 911 Turbo S. The heart of this exclusive high-performance athlete is the six-cylinder boxer engine boosted by two exhaust gas turbochargers wi...

John Chow dot Com | 8 Feb 2010 | 12:58 pm CST

Elliot's Blog
Elliot Silver
Domain Name Investing
Most domain investors would probably agree that the results of live domain auctions have been pretty weak recently. Aside from a few strong sales that have taken place, most auctions haven’t produced the results people hoped to see. I’d like to discuss problems I see in part one and give...

Elliot's Blog | 8 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm CST

CrossingWallStreet.com
Eddie Elfenbein
Crossing Wall Street
Media Bias in Financial Newspapers: Evidence from Early-Twentieth-Century France Abstract: The financial market was well developed in France in the years before World War I, and there were many newspapers that provided information to investors. Yet commentators at the time faulted the financ...

CrossingWallStreet.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm CST

Domain Name News
Domain Name News
Now that the Super Bowl game’s “Brand Bowl” is finished, the polls and opinions are popping up everywhere. This year there seems to be a lot more  reactions and buzz bubbling on the internet, more so than in year’s past, thanks in part to social media sites. Who had the clev...

Domain Name News | 8 Feb 2010 | 11:05 am CST

CrossingWallStreet.com
Eddie Elfenbein
Crossing Wall Street
Ouch. On Friday, CoStar Group Inc., a provider of commercial real estate data, announced that it had agreed to buy the MBA's 10-story headquarters building in Washington, D.C., for $41.3 million. The price is far below the $79 million the trade group says it paid for the glass-walled building in 20...

CrossingWallStreet.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:58 am CST

CrossingWallStreet.com
Eddie Elfenbein
Crossing Wall Street
There’s finally some big media pushback against the Great Predictors, all of whom missed one of the greatest stock rallies in history: Never mind what Nouriel Roubini, the New York economist credited with having seen the economic meltdown coming, is predicting for next year – surprise, surprise...

CrossingWallStreet.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:49 am CST

CrossingWallStreet.com
Eddie Elfenbein
Crossing Wall Street
The must-read story of the weekend was Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story’s account of the battle between Goldman Sachs and AIG. I have no independent love for Goldman Sachs and I’m perfectly happy to portray them as the villain. Still, I keep finding myself being attractive to another narrati...

CrossingWallStreet.com | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:44 am CST

Commentary from Kathy Lien, Director of Research, GFT
Kathy Lien
Forex 360
It is an extremely quiet day in the foreign exchange markets with most of major currencies ending the NY trading session unchanged against the U.S. dollar. With no U.S. economic data on the calendar and little surprises from the G7 this weekend, we want to take this opportunity to explain credit de...

Commentary from Kathy Lien, Director of Research, GFT | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:38 am CST

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
Last week, we discussed the issue of where there was a greater chance of a bubble: Stocks or Bonds? This week, we look at a possible end to the Secular Bull Market in bonds: Charts via Ron Griess of The Chart Store See also: Taleb: ‘Every Human’ Should Short U.S. Treasuries...

The Big Picture | 8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am CST

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post saying that I needed to hustle more, and one of the goals I set to myself was to reach 50,000 subscribers by July 21. Many readers posted a comment or emailed me asking how I planned to achieve that goal. Well, I have many things in mind, and I’ll talk abo...

Daily Blog Tips | 8 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am CST

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz
The Big Picture
Last week, FT Alphaville noted that PIIGS was becoming an “unkosher” acronym at Barclays Capital. The oft amusing Jim Bianco suggests that instead of using the phrases PIIGS, we give these acronyms a try: * DEBT – Dubai EU Brazil Turkey * SICK – Spain Iceland Columbia Kazakhs...

The Big Picture | 8 Feb 2010 | 9:27 am CST

The Domains
Michael Berkens
The Domains
The auction for the Domainer’s Mardi Gras which will be held in New Orleans starting this Thursday February 11, actually starts Tomorrow Tuesday February 9, 2010 and will be conducted on SnapNames.com The auction closes on Tuesday February 16th, 2010 at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames....

The Domains | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:37 am CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
The ShopCity.com group, a massive domain development project that's been quietly incubating in stealth mode over the last 10 years, is now aggressively rolling out local sites with the full embrace of the communities they serve.Featured recently on CNBC, Forbes, Fortune and more, ShopCity’s intuit...

The Frager Factor | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am CST

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A few days back I asked readers a question: What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back? Some of the responses to the question in comments (and via email and Twitter) revealed a lot of bloggers really wanting to step things up and get what they’ve been putting off done. So...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:22 am CST

The Frager Factor
Owen Frager
The Frager Factor
Go ahead, learn something today. I dare you.From Murray Newlands- a proud blogger user.Top Ten Twitter BlogsTwitter blogs for Twitter users. If you use Twitter you know that there is always something going on and always something new to learn. Here are some of my favorite Twitter blogs to keep you u...

The Frager Factor | 8 Feb 2010 | 7:49 am CST