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Whether you own an online business or want to start one in the upcoming year, you definitely will want to keep an eye on some of the top eCommerce trends for 2011. With their success in 2010, consumers are expecting to see more of the following things.

1. Price Loyalty

If you want to gain customers, you need to offer your products at the right price. People will no longer pay top dollar for items when another vendor is offering the same product, or a comparable one, at a lower price. With the lightning quick speeds of search engines, it takes consumers only seconds to find the best deals. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Facebook has officially taken over the world, hide your kids, hide your wife. It seems like yesterday when the only people who had Facebook were college freshman and sophomores who were trying to find out if the girl they saw in lecture is single. Fast forward to 2011, Facebook has became a one stop shop for all things internet. Through it’s application offerings a user can go from being in the mafia to planting fields, the possibilities are near endless. That being said, I have composed a list of my top five apps. [Read the rest of this entry…]

I find myself spending a considerable amount of time browsing various social networks, and for good reason, that is what I do for a living. I am a member of various groups on Linkedin, Twitter as well as Facebook on the topic of Social Media Marketing, and one thing I often see pop up in questions, is about Facebook and the importance of it vs the other social networking sites. In my opinion, for B2C businesses, Facebook is probably the most important social network that one can be a part of. You can do the marketing yourself, or there also many Facebook Marketing Services that can do this for you with great results. [Read the rest of this entry…]

In my opinion online education have a bright future ahead. Its advantages over traditional education are obvious: time and place are not important, and this is a big deal. Students can worry less about being on time at class, or being in a certain place for school and he can focus on the main goal: to learn something.

With online education we have other advantages too, you can learn from anyone you want and you can practically collaborate with all other students that are trying to learn the same thing as you do. I’ve recently shared my toughts about online education in an interview for Udemy. You can read it full here.

A new release candidate for the long waited WordPress 3.1 has been released. Let’s hope it is the last one before the final release.

WordPress 3.1 should have big improvements over 3.0, including: internal link building, post formats, theme search, etc, but unfortunately, one of the coolest features, ajaxified admin was excluded because of high number of bugs reported and it will be probably added to a future version. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Nowadays, it’s not surprising for adults to have their own blog sites. Even my 75-year-old mom has her own blog about homemade rugs. The thing here is that many teens and young adults are neglecting a blog’s ability to generate income. Many bloggers within the age range of 18-25 talk about less important topics. I have nothing against non-business blogs, or blogs about the latest developments on Gossip Girl and Sons of Anarchy. It’s just that, with our country’s current economy, blogs are great tools in helping our fellow citizens out. Many young entrepreneurs exist today, but I believe this vague number is not enough to create a great economic change. [Read the rest of this entry…]

In WordPress you can’t add php code into posts by default. Sure, you can use Exec-PHP plugin that will let you do that but it is not the best option.

A community accepted way to add some advanced code, or show something depending on the status of the user viewing the post can be achieved trough shortcodes. They can be also used to post a predefinet piece of data or one stored in the database.

Here is how you can create a shortcode. [Read the rest of this entry…]

No matter where you go in life you face the possibility of being profiled.

These profiles determine how people will interact with you, how information is retained and sent to you and how you are essentially handled by companies and other people. In the real world humans are profiled using a number of different traits such as age, sex, personality and likes or dislikes.

In the cyber world those traits disappear completely and other factors are brought in such as adaptability, leadership, trendsetting, etc., which are used to determine the type of web-goer you are. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Are you interested in a career in SEO/SEM? According to the SEMPO Institute, there are thousands of job openings in the online marketing industry and many of the job descriptions include search engine marketing experience. Experienced and entry-level SEO/SEM professionals are needed.

SEO Job Categories

Many of the SEO/SEM firms, particularly the larger firms, have employees in these job categories: [Read the rest of this entry…]

I currently run several websites and also help some friends to run theirs. Most of the websites I run are content based: articles and stories on certain topics, mainly about computers. Content websites are simply to maintain, they don’t require too advanced skills but they still take a lot of time.

When it comes to get something out of your blog, it is not so easy. The most spread way to monetize is ad display but we both know how bad it is for content websites. People come, read the text and then go away. I tried many methods to display ads, in-text ads but no one seems to work so far. [Read the rest of this entry…]