49 Ways to Make More Money Online (or Offline) This Year

Okay. You're looking to make more money this year. Great. You've set some goals and now you need to take action. Where do you turn? What do you do first? Do you tackle passive income, money-getting activites, or do you go after something that could put ...

These Social Media Apps Are Trying To Inspire The Best In Humanity

But can a bunch of social media applications help build a safer, more responsible community? You don't even have to do anything. Sometimes, all it takes to make a worthwhile contribution to society is to be part of a community of people who are nice ...

How to Market Your Massage Therapy Business on a Budget

In addition to regularly posting on your social media pages, Kane also recommends that you regularly post new content to your website and blog. While this option tends to take a bit more time and effort, he shares that creating great content helps you ...

Help your customers find you by building a great website

Included in this online training bundle are courses in website formatting, plus access to dozens of WordPress themes and some 2,000 stock images. You'll also get a tutorial about adding web plugins, learn how to use Facebook and Youtube marketing, and ...

How travel companies are using AI to acquire, engage, and retain customers

Luckily, there have been a number of AI-led advances in the world of conversion rate optimization (CRO) which are helping travel companies rapidly optimize their websites and drive the highest possible conversions from visitors. Website optimization ...

President Obama warns against getting 'cocooned' in bias via social media

Former President Barack Obama sat down with the UK's Prince Harry for an extended and far-ranging interview with the BBC this week, and their conversation touched on social media, the use thereof, and Obama's take on what the current state of social ...

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How smart is your website?

Make them feel good, and they will respond well to your message. Make them feel bad, and they will go to a site that makes them feel better. Whatever you think you know about your website and how it should work should be examined. It really is all ...

4 Ways Social Media Influences Millennials' Purchasing Decisions

Why do brands spend so much time and effort courting millennials on social media? The simple reason is that it works.and more »

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'It's articles over car configurators': BMW's new site is more like a magazine

Since it launched at the beginning of November, 25 articles across lifestyle, design and innovation have been published. As much as BMW's cars feature prominently in the first batch of stories, cars come second to the subject matter, according to Jörg ...and more »

Saudi Arabia's Government Might Be Getting Help From Social Media Giants to Shut Down Dissent

Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudi dissident who was granted political asylum in Canada, wants to know why his viral hashtag disappeared from Twitter. The 27-year-old political science student has more than 270,000 followers on Twitter. But some of his Arabic ...and more »

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7 Social Media Trends That Dominated 2017

Influencer marketing has been around, in theory, since the first rumblings of social media marketing. The idea is simple; engage with people who are already popular and respected, and you, too, could become more popular and respected. In 2016, the ...and more »

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AskMen founder Ricardo Poupada: Your small business won't grow if you just stick to what you know

What was the state of technology when you started your career? When I first started my career in the mid-1990s, access to a computer was considered “bleeding edge” and fax machines were omnipresent. There wasn't much else at the time in the way of ...

Help your customers find you by building a great website

Included in this online training bundle are courses in website formatting, plus access to dozens of WordPress themes and some 2,000 stock images. You'll also get a tutorial about adding web plugins, learn how to use Facebook and Youtube marketing, and ...

Helping Your Business Thrive: Seven Key Components Of Entrepreneurial Success

With approximately 50% of small businesses failing in the first five years, it is essential to find the right balance between these factors if you want your organization to achieve success in a highly competitive business world. Even after developing ...and more »

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How To Become A Multimillionaire With Social Media

Some claim that millennials can't engage with the real world due to social media. Yes, for some millennials, social media can be a destructive force. According to the Center for Disease Control, teen suicide rates have grown 30% for boys and doubled ...

An Introduction to A/B Testing

We've recently published a number of articles about data-driven design, or using analytics to inform our UI designs. The short of it is that we can use analytics tools like Google Analytics to conduct user research, to learn about our user demographics ...
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Facebook tackles the question of whether social media is bad for us

As part of its "Hard Questions" series, Facebook took on the question of whether social media is good or bad for us. Citing a handful of academic studies, some done by Facebook researchers, Facebook Director of Research David Ginsberg and research ...

Steven Soderbergh went all-in on social media to promote 'Logan Lucky.' Wrong decision, he says.

“We spent, at my request, a hugely disproportionate amount of money in social media in the digital space as opposed to television” Soderbergh said. “In retrospect, I think that was a mistake.” “I think the potential audience for 'Logan Lucky' doesn't ...

Student extolls COS' tuition-free website building course

In what she described as a “relaxing” learning atmosphere, Fahey said that she was guided through the process of using site creation tools such as Pantheon.com, WordPress, and Divi to make a new and improved city website. She described a comfortable ...

Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with 'dopamine-driven feedback loops'

A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded “the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other.” Chamath Palihapitiya began ...

How to use the gig economy to grow your small business

"When businesses find themselves in need of someone with a specialized skill set, hiring a freelancer through an online marketplace is oftentimes the best option," said Rich Pearson, SVP of marketing for freelance marketplace UpWork. "Marketplaces ...

Build a class, project, or other website using Jekyll + GitHub Pages

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to get a free GitHub account for education, and then a week later I signal boosted a method for building a course website using R Markdown and Github. I like the sites generated using that method, but the styling ...
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/build-a-class-project-or-other-website-using-jekyll-github-pages/64713

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous ...

5 Top SEO Trends for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses in 2018

From content marketing to SEO's technical side, what should small to medium-sized businesses be doing in 2018? Here, we round up the trends that are set to be some of the New Year's biggest in Search Engine Optimization writes Aaron Rudman-Hawkins ...and more »

German intelligence unmasks alleged covert Chinese social media profiles

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's intelligence service has published the details of social network profiles which it says are fronts faked by Chinese intelligence to gather personal information about German officials and politicians. The BfV domestic ...

So, You've Created a Website: Now, What?

Even if you yourself don't know anything about web development, spending just a few minutes playing around with a WYSIWYG editor will usually help you figure out the basic functionality of building a website from scratch. The problem is that most ...

UN calls on social media giants to control platforms used to lure African migrants

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. migration agency called on social media giants on Friday to control their platforms that it said are being used by smugglers to lure West African migrants to Libya where they face detention, torture and slavery. “We think it ...

Columbus welcomes Web Wisconsin

With internet marketing changing often, it can be difficult for small business owners to keep their websites, if they have a website, fresh and attractive. Through the past 17 years, Turner has enjoyed seeing his clients improve their businesses with ...

This Agency Uses Next-Generation Ecommerce to Bring Brands Into the Digital Age

For nearly 20 years, Fluid has specialized in building slick websites and digital experiences for brands like The North Face, Puma and Aqua-Aston Hospitality. Once primarily known for equipping retailers' websites with ecommerce, the 100-person shop ...

10 Tips for Growing Your Small Business Support System

No entrepreneur works entirely alone. Even if you don't have any actual employees, you need a great support system behind you while running your business. Here are some tips from members of the online small business community for managing employees ...

How To Make Money On Social Media (Even With Fewer Than 1000 Followers)

Just the sheer number of active users on social media can make your jaw drop. Facebook has over 2 billion, Instagram has 800 million and Twitter has about 330 million monthly active users. This provides a lucrative opportunity for brands to leverage ...and more »

The Winner of the Online Death Marketplace

More than 3,500 funeral homes worldwide and 1,500 newspaper “affiliates” in the United States funnel customers' or subscribers' obits to Legacy to be posted online, the company says. It claims to attract as many as 40 million unique visitors per month ...
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/12/legacy_com_has_cornered_the_market_on_death_online.html

Disgraced Matt Lauer retreats from social media, deactivates accounts

Disgraced “Today” show veteran Matt Lauer has scrubbed his social media accounts just days after being fired from the NBC morning show amid sexual misconduct allegations. As of Friday afternoon, the veteran broadcaster appears to have deactivated his ...