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The Rise and Rise of Apple Inc

The early years

In 1976, 21 year old Steve Jobs convinced computer Engineer Steve Woz Wizniak to quit his job, and together in Job’s Cupertino, CA home they began work on an inexpensive, simple to use computer. Unlike IBM and other industrial PC makers, Jobs and Wizniak wanted to focus on the consumer PC segment.

The Apple I was released on April First and sold for $666.00 at the local electronics store. Within a few short years, Apple would revolutionize the computing world.

Apple II, released a year later in 1977, improved several aspects of the original model as well as offering features to make it more attractive to non-computer users. It was this model and its subsequent iterations that turned the garage hacks into millionaires.

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Get Your Content Under Control

Internet marketing statistics are sobering stuff. I mean really sobering.

Did you know anywhere up to 80% of your potential customers will be using the information they get from the web to decide whether or not they do business with you?

To most consumers that doesn’t extend past typing your name into a search engine and glancing over the first five to ten things that pop up – what will they see?

Go ahead and see for yourself.

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Tech’s Wealthiest Founders [Infograph]

With LinkedIn’s current valuation of $8.16 billion dollars, the 5 LinkedIn founders would rank No. 5, at $274 million each, it seems as though there will be other high-profile IPOs in the near future.

Click on the image below to see the full-size infographic!

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5 Steps To Email Marketing via @hawaiibusiness

Aloha readers of idaconcpts.com,

My blog is Hawaii based and I am proud to announce that I was interviewed by Hawaii Business Magazine on the topic of email marketing.

You can find an article on 5 Steps to Email Marketing at HawaiiBusiness.com. You can follow them on Twitter at @hawaiibusiness.

Mahalo for reading,

Damian Davila
Founder and CEO, idaconcpts.com

6 Best Sites for Virtual Tour

Why settle for street view when, thanks to advancement in photography and stitching software you can now have the ability to get a panoramic view of your favorite city or place right at the comfort of your desk. Virtual tours are the latest tools for travellers and yes even for you who are longing to be a tourist but is yet to have the budget.

Without a doubt many enjoy the exhilarating experience of being on top of a tall building and having that bird’s eye view. But lest we forget, there may be some who just have a fear of heights. So lucky for you, I have a list of the top 5 best websites that you can visit to experience that delight brought about by panoramic views.

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How Web Analytics Will Emerge As A Cornerstone Of Customer Intelligence

Aloha Readers of idaconcpts.com,

Here’s a great independent report from Forrester Analytics.

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In this independent report, Forrester Research’s Joseph Stanhope shows how marketers who use an online marketing suite are able to solve these challenges with a centralized data hub.

This independent report discusses:

The components of an online marketing suite
How to create a multichannel marketing strategy
The cost savings and ROI boost of centralized data

Download this Forrester report today to get an analysis of current vendors and technologies that can help you move toward a more efficient and integrated approach to multichannel marketing.

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Discounted Tickets for BlogWorld & New Media Expo in NY (May 24-26, 2011)

** UPDATE 5/22/11: This Groupon has expired. **

Deal: Registration to 2011 BlogWorld & New Media Expo
Date: May 18-24, 2011
Landing Page: http://bit.ly/BLOGWORLD

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This May 24-26, 2011, BlogWorld, a conference specifically for bloggers and social media specialists, will be taking place in New York. The speaker lineup looks great this year, it includes Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Brogan, Wendy Piersall, Jennifer James and many more.

If you’re still not sure if you’re going to attend or not, this might help. Groupon is running a deal on BlogWorld passes:

For $187, you get a one-day expo-and-conference pass (a $375 value).
For $275, you get a two-day expo-and-conference pass plus party access (a $550 value).
For $647, you get a three-day full-access expo pass plus party access, full break-area access, and social-media-summit admission (a $1,295 value).

Deal: Registration to 2011 BlogWorld & New Media Expo
Date: May 18-24, 2011
Landing Page: http://bit.ly/BLOGWORLD

Give Energy to Your Blog Post Titles

energy mafia wars Good bloggers write all of their post titles with high energy rates because they want their readers to engage with their content. If you don’t craft a title with a positive, friendly and authoritative attitude, your article will appear bland (a.k.a boring) to potential readers.

Here are some good tips to give energy to your blog post titles.

Relate to Your Readers

When drafting a title, develop it based on something that your readers can relate to. Even better, make the post about something that involves them directly and write it in such a way that is worth the effort of clicking and reading. While “clicking-and-reading” might appear as a simple task, remember that you’re competing with an infinity of sources of information, so you if you’re able to click with your readers, they will click on your article.

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