LivingSocial Avoids IPO by Raising $176 Million with $6 Billion Valuation
With over 46 million subscribers in 25 countries, LivingSocial is the second largest daily deal company in the world. The company, which is in the...
About
After successfully founding and exiting an educational startup in 2009, I began helping companies with business development, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), conversion rate optimization (CRO), online marketing, mergers and acquisition, product development, and branding. Now, I am focused on a new startup in the travel and tourism market niche.
Articles
iPhone Users Crash the Flipboard Party
The popular Flipboard iPad news application finally launched its brand new iPhone app late last night. The Flipboard app, which enables users to create an...
India Demands Technology Companies Censor “Offensive” Material
India, which has over 100 million active internet users and is the third largest country in terms of internet activity, wants certain types of content...
Is Mozilla’s Firefox Browser Finished?
According to recent reports, Firefox’s lucrative three-year deal with Google expired in November. The Google search deal, which provided 84% of Mozilla’s $123.2 million in...
Twitter Launches Self Serve Ad Platform
Although it is in beta testing and currently only available to a small number of approximately 20 advertisers, Twitter has finally launched its self-serve ad...
5 Powerful New Features to Leverage in YouTube Analytics [INFOGRAPHIC]
Yesterday, YouTube replaced Insight with the brand new YouTube Analytics. The new analytics tool, which is more robust than YouTube Insight, will provide detailed data...
Adobe Invests in Facebook Ad Buying with Acquisition of Efficient Frontier
Early this morning, Adobe announced that it has entered an agreement to purchase Efficient Frontier, which will become part of Adobe’s Digital Marketing Suite. Efficient...
WordAds: WordPress Declares Bloggers Deserve an Alternative to AdSense
Early this morning, WordPress announced a new program that will finally allow bloggers to monetize the 24 million WordPress.com blogs with advertising. The program, which...
Cyber Monday: Holiday Shopping Using the Updated Google Product Search Features
The day before Thanksgiving, Google updated Google Product Search to help consumers easily find the products they are looking for at the best price. Now,...
Microsoft Signs Yahoo NDA: Offer Coming Soon?
Since former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired in early September, there has been wide speculation that Yahoo is a likely takeover target. Potential buyers...
New Facebook Phone: Buffy the iPhone Slayer?
Facebook, who has been considering entering the mobile phone business for years, is reportedly working with HTC to create a Facebook branded smartphone. Although Facebook was...
Facebook IPO: Public Offering in Near Future? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Although Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly stated that he is opposed to rushing the company to an initial public offering (IPO), there...
Yelp IPO: Popular Review Site Hoping to Withdraw $100 Million from the Markets
Yesterday afternoon, the popular local reviews service Yelp filed official paperwork for a 2012 initial public offering (IPO). Although Yelp has not determined the number...
Tracking Cookies: Facebook PR Nightmare Continues
In late September, an Australian technology blogger broke the news that Facebook was collecting data on over 800 million global users — even when the...
SOPA Bill Turns Competing Tech Giants into Unlikely Allies
As I write this, the full House Judiciary committee is considering moving forward with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill. The SOPA bill, which...
Google Set to Launch New Music Store: Missing Major Record Labels
This coming Wednesday afternoon, after over a year of negotiations with multiple record labels, Google is set to launch its music store. Google is hopeful...
October ComScore Report Shows Bing Powered Searches Falling
On Friday afternoon, ComScore released the October 2011 search engine market share data, which indicates that Google is continuing to gain market share and establish...
#pubcon Linkbuilding for Ecommerce Sites with Aaron Shear
Aaron Shear, of Boost Search Marketing, just finished speaking at a PubCon session on linkbuilding. His session focused on the challenges ecommerce sites experience while...
#pubcon Loren Baker on Building Links with Maximum Benefit and Minimum Risk
Loren Baker, the VP of marketing at BlueGlass Interactive and founder of Search Engine Journal, spoke on a panel this morning that focused on how...
#pubcon LiveBlog: Enterprise Level SEO with the Best in the Business
This morning Jeff Preston, Disney’s SEO manager, Topher Kohan, the SEO coordinator for CNN, and Alex Bennert, an in-house SEO for the Wall Street Journal,...
#pubcon Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal Answer Questions and Offer Advice
Why is ranking data not available in Analytics? Cutts: Over 96% of sites get all of their searches within the 1,000 limitation. The last 4%...
#pubcon State of the Index with Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of quality control and webspam leader, was joined by Amit Singhal to present this morning’s PubCon keynote speech. Amit Singhal, who...
Proactive Reputation Management Strategies with Tony Wright #Pubcon
Tony Wright, an online reputation management expert and the owner of WrightIMC, has over 15 years of experience helping companies improve their online reputation and...
PubCon: Latest SEO Topics & Trends with Greg Boser
Greg Boser, the SVP of Search for BlueGlass Interactive and former president of 3 Dog Media, just finished speaking at PubCon on the latest topics...
PubCon: Kristopher Jones on Increasing Klout Score and Social Presence
Kristopher Jones, the bestselling author of SEO Visual Blueprint and the founder of KBJ Capital, spoke at PubCon today on the topic of social media...
PubCon: Social Media Conversion Optimization with Brian Massey
Brian Massey, a conversion optimization scientist and widely published author, recently presented on how to measure and improve social media conversion rates. Massey, the owner...
PubCon Live Blogging: The Science of Twitter & Common Twitter Myths
Dan Zarrella, a social media scientist for HubSpot, is one of the highlighted speakers at Pubcon’s Master training this year. Zarrella calls himself a scientist...
Google Reputation Management Audit with Andy Beal
Andy Beal, the CEO of trackur and the publisher of MarketingPilgrim, is one of the highlighted speakers at PubCon’s Master training today. Beal, who specializes...
Google Changes Algorithm to Favor “Fresh” Results
Google recently announced a search algorithm update that should promote fresher and more relevant search results. Although Google makes over 500 changes to its algorithm...
iPhone Magic: Gmail App Vanishes
Apple’s iPhone, which currently captures approximately 27% of the smartphone market, is long overdue for a native iOS Gmail client. Yesterday, Google finally launched a...