Last week we finished up the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program and while some people may or may not have reached the 3,000 fan target, the real question is: does the number of fans really matter? Last night I was watching a video of Seth Godin where he says “it’s worthless to have lots and lots of friends on Facebook.” With so many people selling the importance of having fans, followers, and friends though, how could Seth Godin, a thought leader in marketing, make such an assertion?

It’s Relationship Marketing
Seth has a valid point. If you don’t build…

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It appears that Social Hour, one of the few ad networks to be completely banned from the Facebook platform, has now relaunched under a new name: Dizzy Networks. According to one source, Social Hour had been looking for a new face for the company and according to the company’s website, they hired Jeremy Olsson, who was previously the Director of Performance Marketing for RockYou. While the company is still focused on trying to convert IQ quizzes, it doesn’t appear as though Dizzy Networks is running as aggressive of advertisements this time around.

It was only a matter of time before…

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This is Day 20 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
This actually has to be one of the more challenging tasks. In order to get a boost in your fan base, it’s important to get users to invite their friends. So what methods are there for getting users to invite their friends? The first and most obvious method is to ask users to invite their friends. This can surprisingly have a large impact. The other day I asked my users to invite their friends and a few people invited hundreds…

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learn how to get traffic to your website – After all, it’s goingto be pretty hard to make money if you don’t have any visitors!Generating traffic is one of the most important elements ofbuilding a successful internet business – once you’ve worked outhow you can drive quality visitors to your website you should beon the road to success wherever that is!. By creating qualitytraffic cheaply, you can almost afford to be a little lacklusterwhen it comes to other elements of the site although thisdepends what sort of site you have and who your audience is. Inthis issue of the Ecourse…

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Robert Scoble wrote a late night post over the weekend which suggests Twitter is worth between $5 and $10 billion dollars based on a sampling of businesses in approximately 8 cities. What sort of math was used to deduce this valuation? Absolutely none, but if you want to purchase shares at such a ridiculous valuation, Howard Lindzon will sell shares to you. Scoble’s post simultaneously hypes the already bloated Twitter bubble while making jabs at Facebook.

Back in March, Robert Scoble was saying the exact opposite. Scoble is pretty good at writing a headline which will drive a lot of…

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Want to know how many people will click on the new Facebook ad that you are creating? Now you can. Over the past few weeks Facebook has been testing out advertisement click estimates for campaigns and it appears it is back. While it doesn’t work for all campaigns, it’s an extremely useful feature. However it appears that there are still a few bugs.

In the process of creating one of my own ad campaigns I found that reducing my ad’s click bid would result in an increased volume of clicks. Does that really make much sense? Not really unless Facebook…

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micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in micro Torrent including bandwidth prioritization scheduling RSS auto downloading and Mainline DHT compatible with BitComet Additionally micro Torrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification compatible with Azureus 2 4 0 0 and above BitComet 0 63 and above and peer exchange micro Torrent was written with efficiency in mind…

sent in this project called Droplet. He’s been doing work with Xbees and Arduinos together and built this little toy. He describes it as “sort of like a Chumby”. It has built in services for Twitter, Google Calendar, News, Gmail, etc.  You can download the full source code and plans on his site. His next planned revisions include possibly running it from a sheevaplug, making a nice case for it, and utilizing the unused pins of the arduino.

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