More than a year has passed since search engine upstart blekko launched, yet Web marketing analysts using digital media measurement tools like Google Analytics won’t have seen any traffic attributed…
Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as “leadership development,” which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally…
Unboxing the New Square Packaging
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Benefits:
UX: User friendly across the board, mom’s, dad’s, SMB’s, enterprise. You open, you read a 3 step process, you plug and you collect payment!
One thing that did cross my mind was if I was an android user and an SMB would I get past the massive iPhone nods. One possible way to remove a layer of friction is during the signup phase (phase before I received my Square) if Square could map the handset field to the user and tie it out to the package, ie If I signed up for an android device I see an android device on the package.
Biz: Overall the experience was faster and less complicated. Of course you have to imagine reduction in shipping costs with the weight decrease too. Square rocks.
Press releases have long been a preferred (and now a patented) part of optimizing sites; when done well, they can be a good method for link building on steroids. Larger corporations often use the…
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys…
Managers draw on a wide range of human motivations. But anger is not usually included in the textbooks: angry workers are not usually reliable employees, and workers don’t usually like angry…
Google has just announced a new Google+ setting that I’m sure will be a big hit: the ability to control who can send you notifications. As Google’s Kathleen Ko explains in a Google+ post, this is…
A visionary who influenced the lives of countless millions across the world has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
He is Dr. Ralph Steinman, a biologist who on Monday, three days after…
As with Google, Twitter saw a spike in activity related to the death of Steve Jobs. However, the company said that the number of tweets per second didn’t break new records.
The Peak Records
Twitter…
An interview with Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired and author of The Perfect Thing and Insanely Great.
