Linkedin makes money charging the need to contact someone that is not in your network (this is one of their main feature). Until recently there were several options to overcome this: a. to ask that person for a connection b. to request an introduction But nowadays, if you want to find someone that is not … Read more
Last week i gained a new client: Nomasvello Romania. Nomasvello is the franchise with the biggest growth in Europe in 2009. It is a franchise for hair removal and skin rejuvenation with light technology. The business is very simple: the business owner pays 30,000 eur franchise tax + 400 eur/month and he/she gets the devices, … Read more
Google Page Rank is/was an indicator still much trusted by emarketing persons (me included). I used PR to have an instant impression about a site. How good is it. In the past, things were pretty clear on how to get a PR. It would take like 2 months to get a PR. Google had a … Read more
Yes, every facebook user is a blogger. Because even if they don’t blog text, they can blog via pics. Or via videos. Or via various applications results (X is 77% compatible with Y, X just bought a cow, etc) Facebook offers all the bloggers functionality on the spot, and even more. Not to mention that … Read more
On December 8, at Marriot, Evensys is doing another NetCamp event. As usual, I’ll be there. Where I will focus my interest will be Launch 48, where the focus is how to launch a business in 48h 🙂 http://www.netcamp.ro/2010/launch48/ Thank you Manafu for invitation.
So, do you want a 3 digits dot com domain? Tough luck. There are not any left. 🙂 I found people that were paying 1000 usd just to point them to a free 3 digits dot com available, or willing to sell on a normal price. So i just searched through all the combinations of … Read more
3 differences between hackers and admins: 1. An admin must think of ALL security gaps to be succesfull. A hacker must find only one. 2. An admin doing his job is not going to get too much credit. And if something’s wrong, it will be crucified. A hacker will get praised if he get any … Read more
I always respected the imagination of the malware creators. Latest case: a small application for Yahoo Messenger, that tries to make you click a link. It innitiate the conversation or it can responde if you started it. The language is very human The application gives replies! Very nice follow-up It acts when the Yahoo messenger … Read more
For the past 6 years, I am keep increasingly receiving requests from various companies/persons to help them out in a very sensitive and important problem: they had negative/bad reviews online. And they need to solve them 🙂 The problem is that this way they waste a LOT of sales. A nielsen study since april 2009 … Read more
I’ve made a test, on one of our websites targeted, to US visitors, having before Google adsense and after that adbrite, on the same ad spots. Conclusion: Google Adsense produce an income 78 (seventyeight) times bigger then AdBrite! WOW. the quality of the Adbrite’s ads was very low, the contextual targeting did not function, it … Read more
Some nice figures on Romanian Social Networks usage. Who’s getting social in Romania via manafu
Looking at godaddy as a hosting provider? Here are 10 reasons why NOT to. As part of my work I had a lot of experience with tons of hosting providers. From shared hosting to virtual servers and physical hosting. From small sites to huge sites (like Coca-Cola sites, with mobile databases included). From high traffic … Read more
One of our clients, Eco-Rom Ambalaje (#1 in recycling in Romania), launched this month a campaign, with a strong call2action. Colecteaza Selectiv (http://colecteazaselectiv.ro). 50 bikes as prizes. 3 bikes for the most influencing bloggers + 30 tshirts made from recycled PET. As the campaign ends on October 3rd, we’ll give more nice results after that. … Read more
This evening I’ve been to a Orange Meetup, organized by Orange Romania. Excellent ROI for me. The topic was SEM. The guests were 2 ladies (Amelie and Essuhana) from eSearch Vision, a french SEM agency. The moderator was Maria H. – a very human presenter:) Here are some interesting facts: they run 0.5bln eur clicks … Read more
This week, wordpress banned 2 of my wordpress sites, one with PR 4 and one with PR 3. They banned it automatically after I posted a specific url to a travel dot com site that was ok from reputation point of view (as far as I thought). I just saw a big red thing saying … Read more