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Security researchers are warning that the popular social bookmarking service Digg is being abused by malware distributors by creating fake news stories and promoting them, or by posting malicious comments to legit entries. Read More

Training is often sold as a panacea promising long-term, significant increases in revenue generation. The logical thinking attached to this approach, which makes it an easy sell, is that sales skills can be taught and process can be instilled in individuals that will elevate them to rainmaker status. Unfortunately, the reality is much different. Read More

Back when I was in school, which wasn't that long ago, in order to get this kind of information you had to spend hours in a classroom and thousands of dollars. Now you can get a big time business education, on your own time, for free. The following courses range in complexity and length, and should offer a good primer for those of you just Read More

If you have several versions of the same page or many pages with the same content, tell the search engines about it with the new canonical tag! The search engines really don't like to find the same content on several web pages. The main problem is for them to determine what is the “primary” page, the most important version, the one people shoul Read More

Mark Cuban is giving away money! Well, sort of. Here's a snippet from his blog post: "You must post your business plan here on my blog where I expect other people can and will comment on it. I also expect that other people will steal the idea and use it elsewhere. That is the idea. Call this an open source funding environment. If its a go Read More

When people start talking about communication delivery as being cheap or free, it's often indicative of the amount of effort they tend to expend. This is because the perception of FREE skews how you think about the tool. It's one of those "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" things. Read More

When I say 'become a spammer' I mean it in the FBI/Mulder profiling way, not the Buy-lots-of-servers-and-send-out-millions-of-messages-an-hour way. You can become a far better e-mail marketer if you study really crappy e-mail marketing. All those e-mails that look like they were written by a troupe of crazed chimpanzees hold invaluable lessons i Read More

Here you can see that about 80% of the qualified leads were completed within 1.5 hours - in one or more conversations with the decision maker. Read More

Starting a blog is not for everyone. There are lots of reasons not to blog, including having the time to keep a blog up to date, having something to say, and the fact that blogging is becoming an increasingly crowded space making it far tougher to stand out than it may have been in the past. Why would I start a post about successful blogging with Read More

The WALL STREET JOURNAL offers a list of tips for online marketing success during the upcoming holiday shopping season. And yours truly is even quoted in there. :-) Read More