4/10/2009: "The balance of power on Yelp is about to get a shake-up. The San Francisco consumer review Web site blasted out an email to its Elite Squad today with the news: business owners will be allowed to publicly post their response to Yelp reviews in as early as ...
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Straight from their blog. (heard about this at Sugarrae.com) "Other sites give complete control to customers and their reviews. We give complete control to you, the business owner. Don't like a review? Delete it." -MerchantCircle.com Wow. That about says it all. Yeah, other sites, like ResellerRatings.com, do give complete control to ...
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I used to like CNN and really, it's actually a great resource for major breaking news. For all other times, they suck. Take today for instance. The market is up for the 3rd day in a row. The dow is up over 9.5% in the past 3 sessions. Our devastated ...
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I was on a Wikipedia page today and saw a huge "Please read this message from Jimmy Wales" banner at the top of the page. His letter (dated 12/24/08) asks for donations to Wikimedia to support the site, and explained how they hoped to raise $6M to cover their annual expenses. The Wikipedia donations ...
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My company owns several high value, high traffic domains, but I'm not a domainer, so domain registrars and their policies and prices are about as fun and interesting to me as watching paint dry. As long as the registrar does its job and leaves me alone, I'm happy. What would happen, ...
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I've never done formal usability testing. You know, hiring a group of testers, giving them coffee and muffins and asking them to perform certain tasks on your website so that you can gain insight on how people actually use your site. Formal testing is expensive and is limited to a ...
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I read magazines like Fortune Small Business, Forbes, Money, and although I occasionally read business books, I don't read them that often. Usually, it's because I don't make the time, but more often, it's because I don't have a book handy when I feel like reading it. I sure don't ...
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As an Internet entrepreneur, I've been guilty of overusing email & IM for years, and not creating enough face to face meeting opportunities. True, I've always advocated the importance of conferences and I attend a lot of them, but I often talk to employees and companies with which I have ...
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Greed is good. Greed in its many forms, be it striving to compete to be the best at what you do, striving to grow your business etc, drives us. Fear and greed, hand in hand, run our economy. Trouble is, people get carried away, and start doing nasty things to get ahead to ...
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Conservatives allege that Obama's "we need to spread the wealth around" statement, his statements about "fairness", and his proposed tax increase for those who earn more than "$250k" (though it's really $600k, as you'll see below), represent a socialist view that threatens our capitalist society. Here's a newsflash to those with ...
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