Unsubscribe rates are at an all-time high in the online business & marketing niches. In fact, April through June of 2008 saw some of the ...

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You have only until the end of day tomorrow to register for my Online Reputation Management Workshop and get the heavily discounted rate of j...

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By Frank Reed. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal by Lee Gomes the Long Tail theory popularized by Chris Anderson’s book “The L...

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It’s the first linky goodness of a new month. Hurray! More not-so-good news for Yahoo: the DOJ will reviewing the Yahoo-Google ad deal and plans to consult Y&G’s rivals. Yet another reason for MSFT to ce...

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Sometimes we just can’t let dead horses lie. That’s okay, neither can Microsoft. After months of more drama than a daytime soap (a...

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First IAC took itself apart, now Ask is slowly dismantling its cool features, too. Chris Pendleton, a Virtual Earth evangelist, has posted that Ask has dropped its own mapping features—As...

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Seriously, my friend Andy Sernovitz did write a great book called Word of Mouth Marketing. Now he’s hosting a small-group word of mouth ...

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Written by thinksimplenow Photo by Jordan Fraker. See more of his work here. Can you remember the last time you stepped into a room full of strangers and felt that self-consc...

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Its been awhile since I’ve published my stats. Five months actually. I’m happy to report that ClickNewz continues to grow steadily, both in traffic and in subscriber number...

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By Frank Reed. Leave it to bloggers to find a way around censorship. On the heels of the Olympic Games in Beijing riots broke out in the Gu...

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