Watch out for a new brand of consumer in 2008: the middle-aged Simplifier. She finds herself surrounded by too much stuff acquired. She is increasingly skeptical in the face of a financial meltdown that it was all worth the effort. Out will go luxury purchases, conspicuous consumption, and a trophy culture. Tomorrow's consumer will buy more ephem
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How Recession Will Accelerate Consumer Downsizing
Posted by luckycharmer under NewsFrom http://discussionleader.hbsp.com 5880 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 22, 2008 9:33 pm
Yahoo Search Incorporates ZIP Code-Targeted Ads
Posted by suzyQ under Online MarketingFrom http://www.marketingvox.com 5880 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 22, 2008 5:15 pm
Yahoo is giving advertisers the ability to target ads by ZIP code rather than just by city and state. The ZIP code targeting feature analyzes a searcher's Internet Protocol (IP) address and manually-input user data, then serves ads based on their location.
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Scammers Making '$15m a Month' on Fake Antivirus | Times of IT Security
Posted by rupalik under TechnologyFrom http://www.timesofitsecurity.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 23, 2008 4:16 am
Figures suggesting that fake anti-virus packages are allowing cybercrooks to make more than €10m a month are been described as little better than guesswork. Vendors across the industry are warning that scarewore packages - which attempt to trick would-be marks into handing over their hard-earned cash for packages that claim to resolve fictitious i
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How Seo Consultants And Seo Experts Create Great Content
Posted by rupalik under Online MarketingFrom http://seoarticles4u.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 22, 2008 5:16 pm
Every Page has a Unique Title and Keyword Phrase Page title is the most important signal to search engines that a web page is unique and important. The title describes the content search engines and web travelers will find when they arrive at your page. SEO Experts know that web searchers click, they are more likely to go for search engine results
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Try This 6-Step Lead Generation Strategy for a Shaky Market : Real Estate Marketing Blog
Posted by himangim under Online MarketingFrom http://marketingblog.realestategrowth.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 23, 2008 9:35 pm
Are you wilting in a market meltdown? If you're a real estate agent, there is a good chance that a daisy chain of financial disaster—collapsing housing bubble, wave of sub prime defaults, frozen corporate credit markets—has become your worst nightmare.
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How to Get Blogs to Link to Your Posts
Posted by rupalik under Online MarketingFrom http://www.problogger.net 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 23, 2008 9:31 pm
One of the simplest things to do to get your contact in front of other bloggers in these circumstances is to email them to let them know of your post and/or to suggest it as a potential story for their own blog.
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Free links to your site using new Google feature
Posted by TimJustus under Online MarketingFrom http://www.mattcutts.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 21, 2008 11:14 pm
I can't believe a new feature from Google isn't getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site.
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First Time Ever: Multi-Channel Holiday Shoppers Prefer Web to In-Store
Posted by TimJustus under MarketingFrom http://www.retailerdaily.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 21, 2008 11:15 pm
For the first time, the web has surpassed the store as the preferred way for multi-channel shoppers to purchase holiday gifts, according to the e-tailing group's third annual “Mindset of the Multi-Channel Shopper Holiday Survey.”
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US entrepreneurs turn to microfinance
Posted by ArmadaIG under Raising CapitalFrom http://www.businessweek.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 21, 2008 9:36 pm
It looks like US entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to microloans as banks tighten lending standards.
To be sure, microlending is a tiny, tiny piece of small business credit in the US. Microlenders tend to be small nonprofits, and all their loans combined probably wouldn't be a blip on the portfolios of one of the big banks. That said, ther
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MySpace launches ad network for individuals, small businesses
Posted by ArmadaIG under Online MarketingFrom http://www.computerworld.com 5881 days ago
Made Hot by: on October 21, 2008 5:53 am
MySpace launched a beta version of its do-it-yourself advertising platform that's aimed at letting individuals and small businesses create their own ads that can be customized to specific users of the social network.
The new MyAds service, which MySpace first detailed in November, will enable anyone to create customized banner advertisements u
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