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600% Twitter Growth & Amount of Spam E-mail Quadruples, Is there a correlation
Posted by: | CommentsMarketingCharts: New Twitter Users Drive 600% Growth; Personalized Spam Quadruples;
Twitter’s New Users Drive 600% Growth
Popular microblogging site Twitter now has about 4M-5M users, the majority of whom joined in 2008 and have contributed to the site’s 600% growth in the last 12 months, according to the first “State of the Twittershpere” (pdf) report from HubSpot. The research, which covers…
Spam Doubles, Personalized Spam Quadruples in 2008
Spam nearly doubled worldwide since last year and now accounts for nearly 200 billion email messages each day (approximately 90% of email sent), while “personalized” spam based on personal information stolen from the web, has quadrupled in the same time period, according to a study…
Now, is there a correlation? I hardly think so but are the twitter people running away from the spammers. But what am I doing following hundreds, thousands of people? Can I say that it is just another form of sophisticated spamming? Help me here? What is going on?
Google Docs Templates For Search Marketers
Posted by: | CommentsIn Nick’s blog he goes into much great detail on these templates. But the free templates available on Google and the rest of the Internet is just amazing. Even previewing books are getting to a point that I question if just following the author’s blogs and webinars are more value than buying the book? To be completely honest, I am cleaning out my Someday, Maybe files and this is an article I found from last month that I hated just to toss.
Nick Wilsdon is the CTO of e3internet, an online marketing agency based in Russia. You can contact him through this site, LinkedIn or Skype.
Nick says:
Earlier this month, Google gave their users access to a free library of document templates. I found time last night to dig around and discovered some useful ones for search marketers. To save you some time, here are direct links to the ones I downloaded.
1. Non Disclosure Contract (NDA)
4. Basic Google Adwords Proposal
6. Travel Expenses and Itinerary Templates
Was it worth publishing?
RSS, It’s Not Just for Blogs Anymore
Posted by: | CommentsVery Seldom do I post someone else’s blog in its entirety but this is important!!
Taken from the Duct Tape Marketing Blog by John Jantsch
I don’t think small business folks can here this enough – don’t get too concerned about what it is or how it works – it’s just plumbing – get excited about what you can do with it.
Even if you have no clue what RSS is, there’s a good chance you’ve consumed an RSS feed one way or another by way of blog content. Every blog comes equipped with the programming to write to RSS feeds. This can be in the form of a main blog feed, category specific feed or even a comment feed.
But RSS technology is everywhere now and is the secret to allowing your to filter through the flood of information you need to be tracking just to stay competitive. And, there’s more.
Here are two resources for your RSS learning pleasure:
- Everything I’ve written and recorded on the subject
- 100 Cool Things You Can Do With RSS
P.S. I did delete a paragraph or two. But it still is important!
