If you have ever shopped online for an item and then later noticed an ad for that exact item on another page, you have been retargeted. It may cause some problems for people who are trying to surprise others with something special. Consider the scenario of the...
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Successful Virtual Teams
Teams may not necessarily occupy the same building or location. This may create some unique challenges. When I trained teams within organizations to be effective, we dealt with personality preferences. Team members would take the Myers Briggs MBTI to...
Top Business and Career Trends for 2013
Potential entrepreneurs often look for the next big idea. With changing technology, it is important to have foresight. It is not always necessary to be the first company to offer a product or idea. Facebook is an excellent example of this. Sometimes an idea...
Reverse Image Search with Google
There is a unique way to look for meanings behind pictures on the Internet. By simply uploading an image into Images.google.com, the search engine can provide a list of places where that image was obtained. There are several other ways to find out more about...
How Businesses can Maximize Online Presence
While business leaders may constantly hear they need to maximize their online presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, there may be more that they could do to succeed. Just having a Facebook or Twitter page is not enough. These sites need...
Entrepreneurs Finding Unique Ways to Create Business Plans
Entrepreneurs are faced with many challenges when creating a new business. One of those challenges is to create a feasibility study and business plan. Entrepreneur.com had a very interesting article about how businesses could utilize some unique ways to help...
Texting Offers Latest Marketing Opportunity
As mobile phones have taken over the way people communicate, it is a natural progression for texting to become a marketing opportunity. In the Wall Street Journal article Teen Stores Try Texts as Gr8 Nu Way to Reach Out, author Christina Binkley explained, “Like many...
The Ethics of Google
“Don’t Be Evil” is Google’s informal corporate slogan. The founders of Google claimed that this motto explained their culture that “prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias.” According to Google’s code of conduct page this...
Marketers Use Retina-Tracking and Facial-Scanning Devices
The latest technological advances have allowed for marketers to perform experiments that used to be the things only considered in science fiction. Shoppers may soon have their retinas and facial expressions scanned to determine their product preferences. ...
10 Top Links to Explain Social CRM
Organizations use technology to keep track of customers' information. The hope is to build relationships with current and potential customers. This is referred to as customer relationship management or CRM. Social media has changed the way companies handle...
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