Archive for April, 2008

Here’s her website: DarynKagan.com
Here’s her story, in part, from Breitbart
In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006. She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the [...]

Microsoft has a marketing nightmare on their hands. Like other near monopolies, they don’t seem to care. They figure “You’ll just have to learn to like it.”
That’s a great opportunity for someone else - anyone else! Please!
From Breitbart
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered [...]

Thursday May 15th marks the 3rd UK National Work from Home Day
From TMCnet
National Work from Home Day is organised by Work Wise UK, a national not-for-profit initiative to promote “smarter” working practices - such as flexible, remote and mobile working, and working from home. It aims
to give half the working population, some 14 million, [...]

Lifehacker has some good points … use the word “Telework” instead of “Telecommute”. They have a slightly important difference. One emphasizes your working, the other sounds like a vacation.
Know why your boss is afraid to let  you do that so you can answer objections. For that they recommend this article from Web Worker Daily.
They also [...]

I found this quote from eMarketer interesting because these facts lead them to conclude we are reaching “broadband saturation”:
eMarketer estimates that by 2012 there will be over 533 million broadband households worldwide, of which 94.3 million will be in the United States. A good percentage of these broadband subscribers will also be subscribing to a [...]

Check this out: Beer Sipping Clients Have Taxes Done In Bar
I suppose that’s one way to make tax season less painful.
But really, this is an ingenious way to market with very low overhead and to target a market. I wonder if the taverns charged anything… or if they just thought the novelty of the service [...]

Amy Brantley who’s published 1,502 articles as of this post says that the reason you’re not making a living by writing full time is only partly due to a lack of determination. Some overlooked keys include a failure to target popular keywords and also the failure to check the density of those keywords in your [...]

Markus Allen is one of my favorite online marketers. I was sad when he took a hiatus a while back,but now he’s going full guns again and this is his latest project “Stump Markus”.
It’s a weekly teleconference where you can call in and try to stump the marketing expert - if he doesn’t know [...]

If people are really “Trading parking passes and briefcases for bunny slippers and laptops” I’ll wager that in most instances it’s not a willing trade. The “subprime lending crisis” aka “We made hay while the sun shined and now we hope the taxpayers will bail us out crisis” is sending lots of bank workers [...]

Here’s a new one on me… Google Grant. It’s their fifth year as a matter of fact.

Designed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program. It harnesses the power of our flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to non-profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online. Google Grants has awarded AdWords [...]