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Condorito World Cup 2010 T-shirts [Mexico, Chile and Argentina]

The World Cup 2010 is heating up as all Latino teams are doing well so far in the ‘knock-out’ round.

As of June 14, 2010:

Argentina defeated Nigeria by 1 to 0.

Mexico tied with the host, South Africa, 1 to 1.

Paraguay tied with the World Cup 2006 winner, Italy, 1 to 1.

Uruguay didn’t allow the French team score any points even when they were down to 10 men. The final score was 0 to 0.

Honduras, Brazil and Chile still have to make their debut on the World Cup.

If you’re rooting for Mexico, Argentina or Chile and you’re a fan of Condorito, here are some great t-shirts for you.

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Predicting the World Cup 2010 Winner

Of the 32 countries lining up for the 2010 edition of the World Cup, happening this June 11 to July 11, only 2 will play the final match on July 11th.

However, just like in ‘Highlander’: there can only be one!

Who will be the winner of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa?

That’s the question on everybody’s mind, including Mr. Beckham here on the left, who does not look to happy when the U.S. tied with England on June 12.

The answer to this question is not only relevant to football fans around the world trying to hit the jackpot both on online and offline gambling places, but also relevant to online marketers who are doing extensive SEO and SEM work throughout this month to catch a piece of the World Cup search engine pie (for more details refer to this article on the implications of the World Cup 2010 to online marketers).

Here are some specific probabilities that will help both football fans and online marketers predict who will win the World Cup 2010.

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Univision has Total Coverage of World Cup 2010

The World Cup 2010 is here and Univision has the most comprehensive coverage.

Univision Communications Inc., the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States, announced on June 3rd, 2010 its extensive cross-platform coverage for the exclusive Spanish language broadcast of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010™ – the most important tournament in international football and one of the most popular sporting events in the world.

Broadcasting all of the event’s 64 matches in High Definition (HD), Univision will be transformed into the World Cup destination leveraging its market-leading assets – Univision, TeleFutura, Galavisión, Univision.com, Univision Móvil, and Univision On Demand – to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience for its audiences with nearly 900 hours of comprehensive coverage.

Here’s a breakdown of Univision’s coverage of the World Cup 2010 through live streaming, its partnership with Shakira, use of social media, and mobile apps (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android).

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Why Hosted PBX is a Good Investment

The Customer is King.

This business maxim has and always will be true.

When businesses start booming, the first thing to start lagging is customer service, which is quite a shame since word-of-mouth about poor customer service could kill a business overnight.

Even though email, social media and chat features are awesome tools to communicate with your customer, nothing beats actually talking directly with somebody over the phone.

However, in order to set up an efficient and effective customer call center for your business, you will need: a closet-full of hardware on-site, a long-term contract with a premises-based PBX provider, and a big bankroll for monthly bills and, let’s not forget, upgrade bills once you outgrow your current system.

There’s a better and more cost-effective alternative to premises-based PBX: hosted PBX.

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World Cup 2010 Latino T-shirts

The World Cup 2010 starts this June 11th.

The first games are:

South Africa vs Mexico – June 11 @ 4:00 am (HST)

Uruguay vs France – June 11 @ 8:30 am (HST)

As you can notice the first two matches involve 2 Latino football powerhouses, one from North America and the other one from South America.

Other Latino teams playing in this edition of the FIFA World Cup are Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Honduras.

Latino fans are well known around the world for their passion for the game and their creativity when rooting for their favorite teams.

Buying a jersey from your favorite Latino team is always a good idea, but an even better one is to think outside the box and get some unusual ones that will not only make a great conversation starter but will allow you to support non-mainstream Latino designers.

Here are my 3 personal picks.

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World Cup 2010 Starts June 11th

Fútbol.

Futebol.

Football.

No matter what you call it: The biggest sports event in the world (besides the Olympics) is finally here.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process.

What are the implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup for online marketers?

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Pros And Cons Of The iPad

Look out Star Trek, here comes the iPad. Looking very similar to the handheld devices in the hands of Captain Jean Luc Picard on the Enterprise, Apple has presented us with the iPad.

The commercials and media coverage has all but declared this next new addition to our technology arsenal as nothing less than a must-have. Having only been available for just over a month, Apple is reporting sales of 200,000 of these little miracles a week.

Naturally, the media coverage on these technology puppies has been growing like virtual kudzu on the net. One in five people have reported that they have plans to buy an iPad within the next year. Consumer reviews state that there’s a reported 92 to 99 percent of satisfied iPad users according to a poll conducted by ChangeWave.

And that’s just in America. It hasn’t even started infiltrating the rest of the world. But, what’s the real deal on the iPad? Is it just another unneeded device, or is it on the road to revolutionizing the way we do things, like the commercials proclaim?

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Help idaconcpts Climb the List of Top 50 Blogs in Innovation

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Since 2008, this blog has aimed to provide useful and actionable insights for online marketers around the world.

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Today I wanted to ask you for one small favor that would mean a lot to me.

My blog www.idaconcpts.com is currently (May 4, 2010) ranked #43 at the Top 50 Blogs in Innovation at NetworkedBlogs.

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Average Email Campaign Stats of MailChimp Customers by Industry

Given that E-mail Permission Marketing: it works!, at idaconcpts, we’ve discussed about E-mail Permission Marketing Fundamentals and how to get started with your e-mail permission marketing campaign.

After you’ve learned how to Measure the CTR of Your E-mail Permission Marketing Campaign with Google Analytics, you will need some email marketing benchmarks by industry to be able to properly evaluate the performance of your campaigns.

On July 2009, eMarketer provided a list of e-mail marketing open and click-through rates worldwide by industry and list size. Here’s an important update to these e-mail stats via Mailchimp.

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Online Community Lessons from Photojojo

If you received a dollar for every online community idea that has been tried on the Internet for the last decade, you’d probably be a very rich person by now.

Launching an online community it’s quite easy.

The options to launch an online community are endless: you can create a Ning community, launch a Facebook Page or Group, use a simple online forum, create a Myspace page, etc.

However, the hard part comes when it’s time to keep your community members engaged and interested enough to let others know about how cool your community is.

On this post you’ll learn from the experiences in running an online community by Photojojo’s Founder, Amit Gupta.

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