4/10/2007
As facebook slowly eats away at the networking need of LinkedIn (at least in the startup world), LinkedIn actually has one valuable (guerrilla marketing) tool that facebook doesn’t….Answers.
LinkedIn Answers is a Q&A system much like Yahoo Answers but with the business slant. LI Answers is great because the responses you get are truly helpful which is rare in open forums. Using LI Answers I have been able to:
- Sell products
- Introduce new services
- Conduct marketing research
- Product development
- Setup meetings when traveling for business
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2/10/2007
As of Saturday the 29th of September, Google Analytics has only been counting roughly 15% of my PPC (adwords) traffic. At the same time my direct traffic has doubled. I’m not positive that GA is counting “paid traffic” as “direct traffic” but I do know that all of the tracking scripts have not been changed during this time (I have auto-tagging enabled so that is not the issue for you GA experts).
Check your traffic statistics daily to find shifts in your traffic.
This is a common issue that all internet marketers need to be aware of. If these shifts go unnoticed, you could be making important business decisions on bad traffic data that you should have caught.
If anyone else is experiencing such an issue please let us know.
1/10/2007
The domain name says it all, KillerStartups.com. Do you really need us to explain further?
Killer Startups is a fantastic site that allows readers (or the Killer Startups crew) to submit internet startups that can be voted as “Killer” in a Digg-like fashion. The top 10 Killer Startups (KS) list should be the target for you young entrepreneurs. KS provides badges to insert on your site so everyone can vote for your internet venture.
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