Top 5 Reasons Why Your Typography Is Turning Away Visitors and What Fonts To Stay Away From

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We all know that typography and font choice have a huge impact on website design, but did you know they could be the difference between whether a visitor actually engages on your site or exits as quickly as possible? Perhaps you thought your font choice or the awkward spacing between paragraphs made your site look fancy or unique, when in reality these things have the complete opposite effect of what was intended. Whether you designed your site yourself or hired a professional, there are a number of important things to remember about the typography of your site. The following are the top five reasons why your typography could be turning visitors and potential customers away from your site.

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Augmented Reality in Games: The Future?

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If you are familiar with gaming terminology, ‘augmented reality gaming’ is a phrase you might have heard thrown about in the last few years. Augmented reality takes the real world in real-time and enhances it with computer generated features in the form of sound, imagery and video. Pretty cool, right? Well, one of the main ways that augmented reality can be utilized is through video gaming; you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a market for it! Millions of gamers would pay top end to have a device which successfully merges reality with digital reality; just imagine this:

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7 iPhone Apps To Pick The Best Make-Up

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I have a full blown addiction with beauty products, but especially when it comes to cosmetics. I love makeup, and my bathroom is a testament to this fact. I have an entire storage cart with seven drawers, four of which are nothing but the various makeup items I have purchased over the years. I only use a small amount, and yet I can’t help but buy more when I see something I like on sale. I should probably go on Hoarders if they ever have a beauty edition.

But my obsession doesn’t stop there. Oh no, I also have apps on my phone to better help me select makeup that I don’t need. In fact, I have tried every one of the programs below, and I would recommend them all to other crazies out there that want to fuel their addiction on the go. Or just people who want some makeup advice…they are good for that, too.

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Apps Optimized for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

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The Android based devices powered by latest Google OS- 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) has some of the most incredible features of Android 3.0 Honeycomb and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. These two have combined beautifully to embark with Ice Cream Sandwich with a couple of added features. This latest OS is meant for both smartphones and Tablets wherein the Google ecosystem is unified unlike the way you experience iOS in Apple based devices like iPad, iPod or iPhone. On having the Android devices which run ICS or own other devices like HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy Nexus or Transformer Prime, you would fail to use your current old apps on any of these devices. However, some of these applications are optimized to reap the benefits from the new operating system. The following are these apps optimized for ICS.

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How to Fix a Bad Yelp Review

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On paper, Yelp.com seems like a great idea. Consumers can log in to provide feedback about different restaurants, hotels, or other small businesses they have visited. They can offer small business owners either words of praise, or of constructive criticism; and, they can ensure that other, like-minded consumers benefit from their own experience.

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The Five-Year Marketing Plan: Looking Beyond Facebook

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Back in 2007, Tiger Woods was still the undisputed king of golf. MySpace ruled the social media roost, fending off a feisty underdog called Facebook that threatened to steal a share of its influence.

Things change quickly. Within half a decade, most social networkers have fully abandoned MySpace. And although Facebook looked like the impenetrable Tiger Woods of social media just a year ago, the chinks in its armor are beginning to show.

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An Introduction to Instagram

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Facebook bought the photography service Instagram for about $1 billion. Instagram allows its users to post photos online to several social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. It is one of the fastest growing websites on the Internet.

Instagram is valuable due to its large user base, its intuitive design and its untapped marketing potential. The service started as a smartphone app that allowed users to upload pictures, apply filters to them and share them with their friends. While Instagram was only available on the iPhone and iPad for some time, the service recently released an app for Google Android smart phones.

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How to Use Pinterest to Market Your Business

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Introduction

Founded by Ben Silbermann, Pinterest burst onto the scene from nowhere in 2010 and has grown from fewer than 50,000 users to more than seven million, making it the third largest social network. If you’re already active on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter and other social networking platforms, you may wonder if it’s worthwhile or even possible to add one more social network to your to-do list. If you’re not savvy about social media, you may consider Pinterest to be a hyped up fad that will fade. Actually, Pinterest can provide a powerful marketing boost to your business, whether or not you actually sell products or services.

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Tips to Get More Advertisers For Your Website

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Direct advertising sales can be a huge opportunity for established websites to increase their revenue. Direct advertising is great for bloggers and smaller websites because you are not required to deal with an intermediary – you keep every cent you make.

Think about it this way. If you sell a banner through an ad network and that banner is worth $40 per month, you will get less than its true value because the ad network has to take their cut. If there are people willing to pay $40 for ad space why should you sell it for less? There is no reason why you’d have to share the profits with a middleman, that is, if you can find advertisers on your own.

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5 Basic Rules of Promoting Amazon Affiliate Products Successfully

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The biggest advantage of Amazon affiliate program is that you can choose whatever products you want to promote, in whatever niche you can imagine. Do you want to promote golf products? Do you want to promote weight loss products? Do you want to promote gadgets? You can do it all, since Amazon has a wide selection of products to promote. Whatever products you want to promote on Amazon.com, here are 5 basic rules of promoting Amazon affiliate products successfully.

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