The Week: The smartphone has become the bane of the retail industry, as savvy customers use physical stores to comparison-shop before going online on their phones to buy the same goods at a cheaper price, a practice known as showrooming. But brick-and-mortar stores are now fighting fire with fire, using smartphones to entice customers into […]
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Although, texting (also called text messaging or SMS) was originally thought of as another avenue for teen communication, it has caught on with adults as well and is now a reputable part of the business world. According to Pew Research, nearly half of all American adults own smartphones. What happens if a business prospects logs
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TextAlert4U is an SMS-based mobile advertising service that enables you to send unlimited advertising text messages to an unlimited number of subscribers – on a bulk broadcast basis – any time you want, as frequently as you like, with no per-message charges and no phone company fees ever. The owner of the company sent me
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According to a story on Mashable, new stats released by Twitter reveal that users now send out more than 50 million tweets per day. That means every second, 600 tweets fly through Twitter’s network. As reported two weeks ago, Twitter saw more than 1.2 billion tweets in January, or around 39 million tweets per day.
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David Carr over at The New York Times has an interesting look at Twitter. I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and, not so coincidentally, where Twitter first rolled out in
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Katherine Lewis at CurrentMom is often asked about Twitter for small business, either by independent consultants or business owners. And her answer is always the same: if your customers and competitors are on Twitter, you need to be too. 1. Follow Competitors and Customers 2. Tweet Useful Information — But Not Too Much 3. Monitor
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Mashable has an interesting story about a 5th grader who is burning up the keyboard. Mackenzie can type 119 wpm. It’s not just a skill, it’s a hobby. She started playing on the computer at age 4 and spends her weekends typing. Her goal right now? “I’d like to get to at least 200(wpm).” By
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Texting while driving is foolhardy behaviour, with studies showing it’s more dangerous than getting behind the wheel when you’re drunk. A US company is proposing a solution. TXTBlocker is a combination of phone software and online services that stops drivers from calling or texting while in motion reports The Brisbane Times. Parents supply their child
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SMBCEO.com: Twitter applications are tools that help you efficiently get the most out of your Twitter activity. They can save you time and effort while streamlining your marketing and social networking efforts. New apps are popping up constantly. Tweetr – This applications allows you to share files up to 10MB via Twitter. Tweetr will upload
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Gadgetwise: Why do so many Twitterers seem to be aspiring stand-up comics? “Good news: Cure for diabetes in mice,” Josh Donoghue, known as awryone, tweets from somewhere in Connecticut. “Bad news: in order for the cure to work on people, they must release whole mice into the bloodstream.” “I fell victim to a Fonzie scheme,”
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