800-337-9249 spam call from eFolks.com on behalf of CreditReport.com
Nothing irks me like telemarketing spam. I’ve been on the national do not call registry for years and thankfully rarely get telemarketing calls any more. But this week CreditReport.com called my cell...
View ArticleRestaurant websites: Put daily specials on the homepage
I’ve written before about restaurant websites and how so many of them sacrifice clear and easy-to-find information for unnecessary, bloated design and animation. Here’s a crazy thought: rather than bog...
View ArticleWith HuffPo purchase, AOL just might, finally, be turning the corner. But...
You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger skeptic about AOL than me, and my skepticism comes from many angles: as a former subscriber, a former advertiser, and even a former employee of the company for 2...
View ArticleBoostCTR offers innovative approach to SEM Ad Copy Optimization
Of the 4 or so principal elements of SEM campaigns — keyword selection, bidding strategy, landing page optimization and ad copy development, it’s the latter that probably receives the least amount of...
View ArticleRecruiting tips for startups (or any company, for that matter)
I mentioned to a friend recently that Hunch had just completed a very successful round of recruitment for summer interns, having attracted the most qualified candidates we had ever had. Coincidentally,...
View ArticleMarketing your startup with a steady drumbeat of data
Here’s a newsflash which most startup marketers learn pretty quickly: nobody really cares that you just released feature set or design tweak #372 (unless you’re Facebook, in which case every tiny...
View ArticleAcquisition Due Diligence: How to prepare for it and what to expect
So you’ve just received a Letter of Intent for a company to acquire your startup or for VCs to invest a round of capital into it. Congrats. But before you get to deal close – 30 to 45 days if you’re...
View ArticleFix for Excel for Mac 2011: “Excel cannot open this file. The file format or...
I recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. Suddenly I couldn’t open most of my previously-saved files in Excel, and PPT wouldn’t let me save new files. I was receiving errors like this:...
View ArticleBerlin restaurant recommendations
Berlin restaurant recommendations We are frequently asked by friends planning a visit to Berlin where to go for a good meal. It took awhile, but now that we’ve been in Berlin for coming on two years,...
View Article72 hours in Berlin
So you’re whirling through our fine city and need to prioritize some fun stuff to do. This will be the start of an ongoing list I’ll update over time. But as some folks have recently asked, I wanted to...
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