Big Week for Examine.com Last week, Examine.com announced its Human Effect Matrix, which “solves over 90% of supplement confusion.” The response was staggering, to say the least. Some quick numbers: 100,000 visitors over baseline (so e.g. if in the week we would have expected 50,000 visitors, we had 150,000) 1,000 new followers to our Facebook [...]
Mike Dobson does a great job talking about the many challenges Apple is about to face with their new mapping system. The one part I disagree with Mike is the impetus that is driving Apple into this. Beyond the brand, beyond it making sense for Google (with the integration into local search), Apple’s new payment [...]
Surprised no one noticed this – TripAdvisor now does Enhanced Listings. The price is up there, but not bad considering TripAdvisor claims 25,000,000 visitors a month. downloadable films the jewel of the nile
I’ve changed my tune before – particularly that reviews are overrated and recommendations are the future. But even more importantly – I’m realizing that the problem is that we are focusing too much on local ‘search’ and too little on ‘local’ itself. A while ago I was at the GeoDomain Expo 2009 in San Diego. [...]
So in my previous post I talked about one of my favorite companies – LDC. Next up is Yipit. But this isn’t just about how awesome Yipit is. No no – today they launched profile pages, and in the process, further convoluted their home page. So this post is about how I would look over [...]
Maybe it is some kind of implicit trust in humans, but I am amazed by how easy it is to order food online. Pizza, ice cream, wine, organic fruit and vegetables, and everything in between – it is amazingly easy to order this stuff online. Literally in the span of 30 seconds I can order [...]
I started dabbling in websites way back in 1997, but the first one to make me over four figures was a topsites. And at 18, that catches your attention. Anyhoo – one of my topsites (which I sold for a quarter million … to help jumpstart iBegin) was doing roughly 100,000 unique visitors when I [...]
So I’m at the tail end of LeadsCon, getting ready to go home. To me, the best two sessions were ‘Keynote Address: Lessons From the Leaders’ and ‘Uncovering Local Lead Generation’ The first was an interesting story – how things were done, how much FreeCreditReport.com cost (hand regged!), and so forth. Personal stories of success [...]
Just some anecdotal evidence. We released a site some three years ago. It sat on our oldest server for the first 18 months, and it didn’t do so well in the search engines. Did around 8000 pageviews a day, with revenue at a partly $25-35 a day. Nothing impressive. Then when we finally got our [...]
Its taken me roughly four months to get here, but three days ago my notebook finally arrived. I looked for a long time for a notebook with the following: 1. SSD 2. 13.3″ max screen / < 4 lb (basically not too bulky). 3. Docking station 4. A powerful enough gfx card that wouldn’t choke [...]