Geno on February 25th, 2011

If you know anything about me, you know that I have two hobbies: fishing (one I actively participate in) and football/soccer (one I love to watch). Yesterday my hometeam, FC Zenit (St Petersburg, Russia) got through into the 1/8th of Europa League beating Young Boys (Bern, Switzerland) 1:3 in snowy St. Petersburg at 12°F (-11°C). [...]

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Today I’ve discovered two terrific Twitter visualization tools that I would like to share with you. Both can help you find very interesting people to follow on Twitter. The first one is Twiangulate [you can also follow them here]. As they themselves put it, they discover “hidden tweeters, friends of friends (or friends of enemies), [...]

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Geno on February 4th, 2011

After a fairly long break from it (over three months have passed since my last #FollowFriday post/list), I’ve decided to return to my popular series of Twitter list posts. Today I’d like to bring you a list of the 10 must-follow affiliate marketing accounts — a list that’s long overdue, especially in a blog like [...]

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Geno on January 28th, 2011

What is a hashtag in the first place? Twitter itself defines this # sign as a symbol “used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet…  created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages” [source]. As The New Yorker put it Twitter hashtags are “used to mark phrases or names, in order [...]

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It looks Twitter has finally opened up for advertising and any business can now get en route on the “journey with the most engaging innovative ads on the web”. Currently there are 3 advertising options available on Twitter: Promoted Accounts — “Part of Who to follow, Twitter’s account recommendation engine, Promoted Accounts highlight your account [...]

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Not sure if you’re familiar with it or not, but in an attempt to be even closer to the public, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently transformed his previously more official Twitter account into a more personal one [English version here]. The style of writing there is now a bit more casual and [...]

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Geno on November 21st, 2010

Google Insights for Search is revealing an interesting pattern about people’s searches for “Black Friday” and related key phrases. From 2008 to 2010, the consumer interest in Black Friday deals has been moving to earlier dates every year (happening a month earlier every year). Here’s what Google has registered between 2007 and 2010: in 2007 [...]

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Having analyzed the top retail brands (with online storefronts) who are actively engaging their customers via such social media channels as Facebook and Twitter, I have come up with my list of the top 10 for the year 2010. There’s a lot we can learn just by observing them. So here is my list: Top [...]

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Geno on October 29th, 2010

Neuromarketing is “the application of neuroscience to marketing”. It “includes the direct use of brain imaging, scanning, or other brain activity measurement technology to measure a subject’s response to specific products, packaging, advertising, or other marketing elements”. On a more general level, “neuromarketing also includes the use of neuroscience research in marketing”. [source] This relatively [...]

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Geno on October 8th, 2010

Today I’ve decided to put together a bibliography of books (both hard copies and e-books) on affiliate marketing, but in the best traditions of Twitter #FollowFridays, I’ve only included books written by people who have Twitter accounts. The order is merely chronological, and contains only books of authors whose Twitter accounts I could easily locate [...]

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