Why Keyword Research Matters To Your Business Success

What Is Keyword Research And Why It Matters To Your Business On May 16, I published this post on Forbes: What Is Keyword Research and Why It Matters To Your Business. It starts out with “Content marketing is one of the hot buzzwords and concepts for 2013. In order to get traffic and visitors to [...]

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Google Now And How To Use It

Google announced on Monday (April 29) that the Google Now voice search capability is now available for your iPhone or iPad. The Google Now service is often compared to Apple’s Siri – both are considered virtual personal assistants that will work by natural language voice commands. I wrote about this at Forbes this week, of [...]

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Facebook Leapfrogs Google Maps As #1 U.S. Mobile App In 2012

Comscore reports in its latest Mobile Metrix ranking of the top mobile apps by audience shows that Facebook finished the year strong to capture the #1 position from Google Maps. Even with losing the #1 position, Google maintained five of the top six positions. In December, the unique monthly visitors for each app: Facebook had [...]

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White House Announces Hacking Event

The White House seems an unlikely place to encourage hacking, but the government just announced the National Day of Civic Hacking. This event is following the popular hackathon format where people come together in an open source type of way to solve problems, in this case, in American cities, communities, and states. Read the Full [...]

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Google Does Not Have A Mobile Problem – Q4 Profits Still Rise

Google shares rose six percent in early trading today, based on Q4 results that profits had increased despite revenue declining. Many cite concern that the desktop search market is waning and the company is not tapping into mobile yet. That is ridiculous. Mobile, particularly the smartphone portion, iPhone4, iPhone5, Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S3, and a [...]

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Four Ways To Tell If You Are Addicted To Your iPhone5

1. If you are sleeping with your phone, you may have a problem. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 44% of cell owners have slept with their phone next to their bed because they wanted to make sure they didn’t miss any calls, text messages, or other updates during the night. Read [...]

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Innovation Desire Drives Dell Buyout

The Leveraged Buyout (LBO) for Dell is meeting skepticism from analysts. Some in the market don’t believe that it will help Dell’s fundamental position enough to help the company. But that is exactly the reason why Dell will be bolstered by going private, Michael Dell will go back to his scrappy roots with a long [...]

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Instagram Reports 90 Million Active Monthly Users And 8,500 Likes Per Second

After seeing poll results that 21 percent of Forbes readers don’t even know what Instagram is, a few details might be in order on what it is as well as how you can use it in your business life. Read Kashmir Hill’s post and scroll to the bottom for the poll: Everyone’s Freaking Out Over [...]

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Loving Amazon – National Retail Award Changes Perceptions

Amazon wins the Gold Medal award from the National Retail Federation. That’s as surprising as the Seattle Seahawks coming back from a certain loss in the Atlanta Falcons playoff game, taking the lead, then losing in the final 31 seconds. Here is the National Retail Federation, which hosted its huge annual event this week, honoring [...]

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The Controversial Art Of Having NO Goals – Leo Babauta Versus Tim Ferriss

Research shows that having goals is good for your heart. In this case, those would be fitness goals. Research shows that achieving goals at work keeps you employed, most of the time. Zenhabits creator Leo Babauta believes that having no goals lets you experience life and work more fully, more intensely as you concentrate on [...]

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