Crowdsourcing: Is It Effective for Your Business?
There is a practice that has been around for a few years. The term, “Crowdsourcing” is attributed to Jeff Howe (contribution editor at Wired magazine) in 2006, yet the practice…
Crowdsourcing: Is It Effective for Your Business?
There is a practice that has been around for a few years. The term, “Crowdsourcing” is attributed to Jeff Howe (contribution editor at Wired magazine) in 2006, yet the practice…
The Biggest Mistakes You Can Make With Your Web Site
Surprisingly, it’s reported that over half the businesses in the United States still don’t have a web site. Of this half, more and more will bend to the pressure of…
131 years ago, Nietzsche stated: “God is dead.” But God is not dead. God–in any and all forms–is very much alive, especially online. Judging from online Presence alone, God might…
Icon Contests are Crowdsourcing
Back to crowdsourcing! The fact is crowdsourcing is more common and easier than we often think. In a nutshell, crowdsourcing is the idea of putting a task into the hands…
Single-Page Web Sites: Are They Right for Your Business?
Web sites are not all alike. While the basic usage of a web site is to communicate your message to viewers, it doesn’t mean your site needs multiple pages, sidebars,…
With the rise of gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), I thought I would begin an intermittent series of crystal ball readings on what the new .com revolutions of the 2-year…
What Makes a Successful e-Commerce Site?
If one wants to explore the history of e-commerce, it will most likely point to eBay. While the web was still fairly young and many companies still were not hooked…
According to a recent New York Times piece by Matt Richtel marriages in much of the world rarely last much longer than a decade or so. He suggests that marriage itself…
Mobile Sites and SMS Marketing: Are You Ready?
Ninety-eight percent of cell phone owners have their devices within reach one hundred percent of the time. The other two percent are my kids who always misplace them. Smartphones contain…
The Dawning of the Age of Etsy
“I spent the morning reorganizing my board on pinterest. I feel like I really accomplished something.” Those are the words of the social media customer, your next customer. These are…
Content Marketing: The Best Way to Conquer the Market!
When I use Wikipedia as a source for information in an article, people sometimes get upset and insist that it’s not a reliable source of correct information. I assure readers…
Micro-Manufacturing: A Revolution Begins
Social manufacturing is upon us, and it has transformed manufacturing from macro-factories to micro-factories. The new Google DRIVE will be a part of it, since only robust and readily accessible…