One of the keys to making logical data driven decisions about your site’s marketing is to know how the things you’re doing (starting a new ad campaign, social media effort, changing a landing page design, adding a new site feature, etc.) are affecting your site’s traffic trends.  A simple way to keep track of these [...]

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Back in July, as I was about to plunge into a fall marathon training program, I decided to skip it instead and work on running the same number of training miles, but with a far different goal. Instead of working on distance, I wanted to work on speed. And while the experiment’s far from over, [...]

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Dropped David and Sofia off for their first day of school. Sofia was just as confident on her first day as David was 2 years ago. Sniff.7:53 AM Aug 25th via txt 2010 NEAPNEA Fall Conference Sept. 10, 11; innovative election coverage, digital tools, and Sen. Scott Brown.http://ow.ly/2ukJK 10:19 PM Aug 24th via HootSuite Cool! [...]

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It’s a no-brainer that publishers today have to be prepared to embrace tablets and other mobile device as key channels through people are going to choose to consume content, now in significant numbers and in the near future, in vast numbers. But let’s say, for the sake of speculation, that you’re not the Wall Street [...]

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Ernesto on August 8th, 2010

From cameras to quality running shoes (you’re not going to run a marathon in cross trainers), there are many example of situations in which specially designed, single purpose tools beat their multi-purpose competitors hands down.  Can ebook readers like the Kindle and the Nook, with super crisp screens, light weight and long battery life do [...]

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