TLDR; If you’re a small business, you can sell online fast and get access to millions of potential customers – without a website and without any real e-commerce infrastructure. I know this is probably too little too late. For people in the IT space this has been an incredibly busy year so far and I’ve […]
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TL;DR Users expect tailored experiences and instant results. (Chat Bots can help with this). Site Speed is a Huge Deal. Ad Fraud is Still a Big Problem. And you can still send actual paper mail! For the past few years I’ve been attending Internet marketing conferences and writing my online advertising update based on some
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TL;DR Click traffic quality from mobile devices is better than ever. Videos ads are highly effective when done right. AI chat bots are ramping up. Last year I discussed the challenges and trends facing online advertisers for 2017. A lot of that still applies. Social media advertising is steadily improving and in many cases much,
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CAUTION: This article was first published in November 2016 and was updated in September 2017 January 2018. It offers a good overview of cryptocurrencies and related tech, but the field is changing continuously. Be sure to do your own research! Some of this information may be outdated by the time you read it. As someone
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Here’s the short version: Social is good, if you’re careful. Mobile is much better than it was, if you’re careful. Viral “news” sites have ruined the internet. Big names are no guarantee of good traffic. Once upon a time, there was a golden age of online advertising. People were shopping online, but the big brands
Online Advertising in 2017: Social is good. Mobile is good. Viral News Sucks. Read More »
A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a global network of servers that act as intermediaries for requests to your website. Using a CDN will speed up user access to your website, reduce bandwidth charges from your web host and even help secure your site against attacks and malicious users. Best of all, a good CDN service can
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A few years ago Google announced that it was going to lead the charge towards an encrypted and more secure web. They followed that by announcing a slight search engine boost for encrypted sites and more recently announced that they would start more aggressively pushing websites towards encryption. With the latest update to Google Chrome, the world’s most
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