Great news, I’ve got a hold of 8 beta keys at a coffee shop here in Hawaii for Dragon Age Legends, a soon-to-be released Facebook game developed by EA and Bioware.
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Learn Email Copywrite from Groupon
While Groupon had a major screw up with its 2011 Superbowl ad, no one can deny that this company has one of the most effective email copywrite styles in the planet.
Here are some great lessons from Groupon on how to write effective email copywrite.
Be Creative with your Job Hunting and Get Hired Now
The global economic recovery is on track, with many developing economy hotspots firing around the world, but unfortunately the job market is still bleak for many countries. Although your local recovery may not be strong enough to have made a significant dent in the unemployment rate as of yet, there are several things job seekers can do to increase their chances of landing a new gig.
Here are some creative ways of competing on the job front in today’s tough market.
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3 Customer Service Secrets
Good customer service is the cornerstone of any business; it helps create the right impression and encourages repeat business, helping your business to grow and prosper. Good customer service turns your customers into unpaid ambassadors for your business, and recommendations based on good customer service are worth more than any amount of paid advertising.
Using Linkbait to Build Traffic And Subscribers
To many link bait is one of the best ways to promote a website and improve its rankings in the search engines. But before we can think about links bait we first need to focus on content, which is one of the most important aspects of any website, it’s what will bring traffic to your site and it’s what will keep them clicking through your pages and this is where we get the term “sticky”.
If you can create relative useful and informative content that can answer a question or solve a problem that people are having then it is inevitable that they will stick around and consume more of what you have to say. It is also much more likely that others will be more willing to link to us as what we have written can help them to provide a better answer for their readers. As you can see already that stickiness and link bait work in perfect harmony together, the next question is how do we build content around these principles?
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Support Film about Los Amigos Invisibles
La Casa del Ritmo is a film about Los Amigos Invisibles, their manager and former producers – including David Byrne, who first discovered them and brought them from Caracas, Venezuela to New York City.
Help us make this project a reality. Support their Kickstarter campaign.
Here’s a sneak peek:
Worst Blogs Online & Why Technorati Likes Them
There are good blogs, and there are bad blogs. In an ideal world, all the bad blogs would just go away and no one would ever read them, and all the good blogs – the ones with great design and even better content – would float to the top and thrive.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. And any blog, good or bad, has the same chance of making it onto the Technorati Top 100. Unfortunately, Technorati doesn’t actually judge the socially redeeming value of a blog; it only gauges popularity, so dumb blogs make it onto the list all the time. Here are a few that have made the list despite their banality.
Really? You couldn’t come up with a better name than Balloon Juice? Anyway, this blog completely sucks. It’s just the rantings of a pop-political commenter wannabe. Actually it’s less ranting and more just quoting news stories and adding a few extra words that are supposed to make us angry, depressed, etc. Blah, blah, blah. No real value here.
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How to Become an Entrepreneur (Who’s Successful!)
Anyone who tells you that becoming an entrepreneur is easy work most likely hasn’t gone the independent route that entrepreneurship implies. The fact is, it’s difficult to stand out from the crowd and create your own career path.
Often, it’s extremely difficult, as the numerous mishaps and minor tragedies that befall your organization are yours to deal with as best you can. When starting out, there simply isn’t money available to hire a public relations firm to smooth things over. This means that in addition to all of your regular duties, you have to be a crisis control manager, too. Crisis or not, let’s take a look at what makes an entrepreneur successful.
Following a passion
It’s one thing to head towards a lucrative field, where making money is as easy as picking low hanging fruit. It’s another thing entirely to follow a passion, be that related to selling flowers or skis. There is often a lot of competition in the field of one’s choice, which increases the hardship while decreasing the profit potential.
However, by choosing to be near that which interests you, inspiration is never very far away. You’ll tend to read up on the latest happenings inside your chosen industry because they interest you, not because they were “necessary.” Never rule out opportunities, your big break might be finding the right Franchises for Sale or starting your own Businesses.
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Startups To Watch in 2011
The most successful startups are able to stay a step ahead of their competition by analyzing the current trends to predict the next hot application that will captivate the public.
One way to get a few ideas of where to go with your new business venture is to take a look at recent successes. Here are some examples of recent startups that stayed in touch with the average user to create exceptionally usable products:
Easy Photo Sharing with Instagr.am
The ability to share photos is almost as popular as the ability to share music online. However, it can be a pain to post those cute baby pictures on a host of social networks and check each site for comments.
With Instagr.am, you can take pictures, apply filters, and publish them all over the net. Instagr.am is quickly going viral as it attracts about 100,000 new users each week.
Media Reaction to Groupon Tibet Ads
Groupon’s controversial Tibet commercial during the Superbowl did not sit well with people who thought it exploitative. From CNN to Conan, the media seems to agree that Groupon did a bad move.
Here are some images and videos (Conan!) regarding this issue.