Category: passion
NOTES FROM MY BLOCK
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I was reading yesterday about how China apparently has 280,000 people who work full-time on China’s online reputation – including lots of social media. It’s what is often called astroturfing – making everything look nice even when the way you are doing it is fake. (Incidentally in our reputation management we don’t get involved in […]
Google celebrates Naomi Shemer with Logo!
I was recently speaking with a colleague who also runs a small office and we were talking about what food we provide for our staff. He said his staff had been buying doughnuts and had now branched out into breakfast tacos! Five Blocks provides a light lunch – or rather we have a fridge with […]
In our various businesses we work with various sized companies – some huge ones and others tiny. As we have grown from 2 people to 12 over the past 5 years, I am constantly aware of the potential pitfalls of growing too big. At 2 people we could make any change to our websites or […]
A few weeks ago TED, that cool conference where people share ideas (watching all of those lectures is probably as valuable as going to college for a year..) held a Tel Aviv event called TedX Tel Aviv. In any case, one of the speakers was talking about seaweed as being a key to cleaning carbon […]
First time at CES – I decided to go in order to understand better what I can do to expand our offerings on YouNeverCall.com and our other cell phone and tech websites. We get huge amounts of visitors but dont manage to turn enough of them into customers – yet. We think this is for […]
For about a year my company has been utilizing a new set of techniques to help us in our online marketing efforts. While the techniques are not unique our results are in some cases singularly unique and valuable. Even if you are new to online marketing you probably already know that some of the main […]
I love Google, but I have to say lately Google has started to remind me of my Mother-in-law. Here’s what I mean. Google announced recently that they are going to be personalizing search results even if you are not logged into a Google account.Presumably this means they will use your own search and surf patterns […]
Interesting conference. Lots about Celebrities and using Twitter! Celebrities need to be twittering – it makes it real!! Takeaways: 1) Twitter is not mainstream enough yet if half of the speakers are still defining what twitter means to them. 2) Iphones are way more popular than Blackberries with the attendees of this conference. 3) Conferences […]
