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Advertisers Set to Spend $1.8 Billion on Location
The rapidly growing field of location-based services is causing most businesses to make room for location-based advertising in their immediate and long-term mobile marketing budgets. According to one research firm, it will be to the tune of $1.8 billion spent on location-based campaigns alone in 2015.
Last week’s launch of Facebook Places...
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Online Freelance Workforce Continues to Rise
The Labor Day weekend got off to a dubious start with Friday’s news that the nation’s unemployment rate crept higher in the month of August. But the number of online freelancers also continues to rise, and a new report from Elance indicates that the growth is due more to lifestyle choices than the jobless rate.
The world’s...
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10 Terrific Testing Tips
Are you basing copy and design changes on your gut feeling? STOP! There is a better way to optimize your website.
:: By Lars Johansson ::
By using a tool for A/B and multivariate testing, you
can see what your visitors prefer and let the numbers
speak. This allows you to find out what website tweaks
make your visitors...
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Comparison Site TheFind Spreads Love for Facebook Like
Comparison shopping engine TheFind has launched its new integration with Facebook that gives consumers more personalized search results and a deeper social shopping experience. Shoppers can now build out their profiles on TheFind by logging in through Facebook and seamlessly adding their favorite stores, brands, products and other...
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Logo Design Made Easy for Business Owners
A company logo can make a big difference in today’s competitive online marketplace, making its design one of the most important jobs a business owner will ever entrust to someone. One website has decided that crowdsourcing will yield the best results, and has introduced an intriguing new concept to business logo design.
LogoDesignGuru.com...
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Facebook Teams with Target to Sell Virtual Gift Cards
Shoppers at Target this weekend will be seeing the first Facebook Credits gift cards, which the retailer will be selling for $15, $25 and $50 starting on Sunday. Facebook is launching the sale of its virtual currency at the 1,750 U.S. stores and on Target.com, and is reportedly taking a 30-percent share of each sale.
Facebook has other retailers...
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WM Radio: Affordable Market Research, Apple's Big News
Apple made some announcements today, some of which is addressed on this week's edition of Website Magazine Radio. Also, we talk with Lev Mazin, CEO of AskYourTargetMarket.com, a nice tool to conduct market research at an affordable price. Finally, we address our reader question of the week about how to get your organization noticed - for...
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The Head of the Back-to-School Class
The calendar is winding down on the multitude of back-to-school promotions, but the Labor Day weekend and following week historically generate some of the year’s best sales for merchants dealing in fashion, electronics and other school-related supplies. We did a little homework of our own and discovered that the following retailers are still...
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iPad Application Now Available from Website Magazine
After hours upon hours in the development lab, Website Magazine is pleased to announce the availability of its iPad application "Website Magazine Digital".
Search for "Website Magazine Digital" within the App Store or download the app directly from your iPad now.
Website Magazine has also created an informational page on...
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nCircle Updates Scanning Service for PCI DSS Deadline
Web security and compliance auditing firm nCircle has updated its Certified PCI Scan Service for the September 1 deadline to be compliant with the latest PCI DSS requirements for vulnerability scanning. The new requirements improve the processes and procedures that approved scanning vendors must follow when conducting scans of merchant networks,...
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Digital Ad Spend Grows 47% in Q1 & Q2
Advertising technology company the Rubicon Project has released its tenth installment of its Online Advertising Market Report series. According to the study, digital ad spend grew 47 percent in the first half of the year as audience buying, an increase in spend from international marketers and automation drive the growth
At the beginning of Q2,...
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The Planet Paying More – Hosting Resellers
Hosting provider The Planet improved the commission structure for its partner program; registered referral partners will now receive incentives on an even broader range of contract terms.
In addition to standard monthly recurring payments for contracts of 12 months or longer, The Planet now provides commissions for month-to-month agreements...
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Yahoo! & Dex One Extend Local Agreement
Yahoo! and Dex One announced an expanded partnership where businesses advertising on dexknows.com will now be able to have their online listings appear in Yahoo! Local search results.
The expanded partnership doubles the geographic area covered by an existing relationship formed in 2007. The previous agreement between Dex One and Yahoo!...
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Abandon Digg Day Update
Digg users apparently deserted the site in droves for Reddit yesterday according to data from Web analytics company StatCounter.
The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats conducted a special analysis of Digg versus Reddit only and reports that, comparatively, Digg traffic to the StatCounter network of 3 million websites...
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HTML5 Skill Test for Developers
Freelance online marketplace Elance added an HTML5 Developer Skill Test to its existing suite of professional tests today. HTML5 is an important open Web standard for designers to master now but in short order will be even more so as demand grows.
Elance has seen demand for HTML5 skills skyrocket of late. Job posts seeking HTML5 developers have...
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