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Daytrotter is celebrating its fourth anniversary promoting music discovery of emerging bands with a new business model. Now ...

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Corey Haim, best known as one half of “the two Coreys,” was found dead in his home this ...

YouTube will now display banner ads on the mobile version of its website. Google made the ...

Today Get Satisfaction is bringing its popular social CRM tool inside Facebook Pages with Social Engagement Hub. The ...

When the platform changes, the leaders change. Wordperfect had a virtual monopoly on word processing in big firms that used DOS. Then Windows arrived and ...

Old time factories had a linear layout, because there was just one steam engine driving one drive shaft. Every machine in the shop had to ...

This is deceptive. You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In ...

Carnegie apparently said, "Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave ...

Readers have told me that they enjoy my off-the-wall book lists. Here’s another. Science fiction, Tom Peters, Krista Tippett and even a book for touring ...

guest post by Kelly Diels warning: there are lessons and even actionable advice in here, but it is buried inside a story. I write stories because ...

While I get many questions from bloggers asking for advice on ‘how to blog‘ perhaps one of the biggest questions a new blogger needs to ...

A Guest post by Heather Allard from The Mogul Mom. If you’re a regular ProBlogger reader, you know that Darren dishes up heaps of incredible ...

Last week on Twitter I was asked by @southrngurl6489 the following question: If you had to pick only one thing that makes a blog stand ...

A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage. My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do ...

My friend Mick Galuski is sneaky. Every Wednesday, he sends a direct message of a TwitPic of MY weekly comics. Not some weekly comics. MY ...

I love Tom Peters. He’s gotten me in trouble for years. Well, his books have. I finally got to have lunch with him, and then ...

My friend, Chris Hall, has told me about Batten Disease, an illness that strikes down children, most often in the 4-10 year-old age range. Chris’s ...

I just read a study produced by the Crittenton Women’s Union that shows that a single parent in Massachusetts needs approximately $68,000 a year to ...

Simon is marketing director for Bar B-Ria, an upscale barber shop experience for gentlemen in Bogota, Colombia. They offer everything from massages to haircuts to ...

As we’ve learned time and time again, there is no “I” in team. Instead of focusing exclusively on “what’s in it for me,” we’re encouraged ...

In the grand scheme of things, this news seems a bit insignificant in light of other current events However, it is significant in the world ...

Facebook recently overtook Yahoo as the second most visited site in the United States. And in doing so, Facebook along with other social networks set ...

What follows is the unedited version of my latest post at AllThingsDigital… The Altimeter Group today released a new report on Social CRM and while ...

The convention for creating financial opportunities is evolving and changing the way we seed prospects, promote our expertise and prowess, and connect with those who ...

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Interesting interview with Primoz Inkret and Igor Savic from Poslovni Mediji (Business Media) in Slovenia. Some points covered include: The use of the term content ...

I just took three flights to get to Slovenia. On each flight and in all the waiting areas, I saw people holding, reading and engaging ...

My content marketing friends, Igor Savic and Primoz Inkret from Poslovni Mediji (Business Media) in Slovenia, were nice enough to give me a branded Moleskine ...

Just returned back from Online Marketing Summit 2010 where the statement "brands as publishers" almost seemed overused. Although we’ve been talking about that on this ...

Junta42 has been receiving quite a few calls/emails regarding our content marketing matching service versus the new Hubspot inbound marketing marketplace. In response, I took ...

For all the accolades bestowed on “Mad Men,” the television series about advertising in the 1960s, perhaps none is more demonstrative of what a pop-culture ...

Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E*Trade, saying that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby named Lindsay in its latest commercial was modeled after her. She ...

Shaun White, the two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, is expanding his relationship with Target stores. The retailer has announced the expected launch of Shaun White Shoes–skate-inspired ...

Walmart just learned a valuable lesson. Consumers are loyal to product brands. And they don’t care where they buy them. Walmart discovered this during its ...

While it may be a little too soon to declare winners and losers, NBC’s decision to abandon the Jay Leno experiment, and return to traditional ...

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Heck, we’ve been blogging about SMO since 2006! ...

When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last ...

As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years.  Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too ...

From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers ...

It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance ...