Having It All and Yahoo’s New CEO Marissa Mayer

on July 19, 2012

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The Exciting Game for Career Girls

I have been following with great interest the reaction to the news that Yahoo just named Marissa Mayer as their CEO. Mayer is young (37), female (now one of only 20 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies), and 6 months pregnant.

Most of the commentary I’ve read on her big break starts by acclaiming that this is a great thing.  Yahoo is being super progressive!  One giant step for womankind! Champagne all around!

But fairly quickly that celebratory tone dies down and the articles and posts move on to a different theme.     Read More →

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Five Things to Do Before Launching a Paid Search Campaign

on May 24, 2012

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Jacqueline Dooley has been working in the fields of online marketing and search marketing for over a decade — we’re so happy to welcome her to the blog. In her posts, she’ll be laying out for us the basics of paid search, and the ways to make sure you get the most out of it. The post below appeared first on her own blog, Search. Click. Find.

Paid search is a do-it-yourself medium. It takes literally five minutes to set up an AdWords account, fund it, create your first campaign, and launch. And Google has been aggressively targeting small businesses by providing $100 coupons and vouchers through hosting companies and ISPs, as well as reaching out directly to small businesses.

For all of the above reasons, as well as the continued pressure to find new leads and generate new business, many of my small business clients are confused about how to move forward. They feel a sense of urgency to launch an AdWords campaign (everybody’s doing it!) but they aren’t sure how to approach it. Add to this that it’s so easy to get started with AdWords -– just register, plug in your credit card, and GO! — that the temptation to launch before you develop a thoughtful strategy can be overwhelming.    Read More →

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What Marketers Love About AdWords on YouTube

on February 16, 2012

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The post below, by the Internet marketer Jacqueline Dooley, previously appeared on her blog, Search. Click. Find.

Last October, Google announced the introduction of TrueView Video ads on its agency blog. This is a format that shows ads in-stream in a YouTube video. The ads are skippable, and advertisers pay on a cost-per-view basis.

FUN STAT: “TrueView in-stream now delivers more than 18 years of video each day for advertisers.” So it’s kind of like an Orwellian nightmare, but in a good way!

Why am I blogging about this now, a good five months later? Well, because the fanfare around TrueView video advertising wasn’t really rolled out with a bang. In fact, it seemed to be just the first step in the YouTube/Adwords migration, because on December 1, 2011, YouTube’s “Promoted Videos” were renamed as “TrueView in-search” and “TrueView in-display” ads. And here’s the thing… that is BIG news!    Read More →

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Bullet Points: Talking Tech Turkey

on November 23, 2011

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Bullet Points: How to Sink That IT Job Interview; Google Worker #59; Should Women Bother with Tech Conferences?

on July 29, 2011

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  • Susannah Breslin’s experiences at TechWeek made her wonder if women should even make the effort to go to tech conferences at all: bottom line, “it makes them depressed.” As you’d except, lots of discussion about this….
  • Mashable celebrates its six-year anniversary with an infographic of the developments in tech during that time.
  • Lying and being unprepared—they’re but a few of the ways you can 86 yourself from the IT job you’re after. [InfoWorld]
  • “… college graduates who enter the labor force during a recession make significantly less money—in their first year and over the course of their careers—than grads who walk into an economic boom.” [NationalJournal]
  • Douglas Edwards’s book about being Google brand manager—the 59th employee to be hired—is shaping up to be one of the major tech reads of the summer. The WSJ recently ran an excerpt from “I’m Feeling Lucky.”
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Bullet Points: Wall Street Optimists; Building Your Own Empire

on July 7, 2011

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Google’s Eight Best Tools for Online Creators

on July 1, 2011

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GoogleAt Google, some very bright engineers are working tirelessly to make sure everything you do all day somehow involves one of their products. It’s a little bit scary. Fortunately, lots of Google’s valuable tools are available for free, to help anybody learn from the vast volumes of data the company collects. So if you’re working on an online marketing campaign, building a blog, or just maintaining your personal website, you should put Google to work for you.

As someone who writes a blog about copywriting, I find Google beyond helpful in tracking how people use language. Here’s a list of my eight favorite Google bookmarks, going from serious and pragmatic on to fun and frivolous.

Google Analytics

Thanks to its longevity, reliability, and unbeatable price (free), Google Analytics is the standard way that many of us measure website traffic. It takes some technical aptitude to set it up, but when you get it humming, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Google Webmaster Tools

This is Google’s way of showing you how its search engine analyzes and crawls your site. Again, it takes a little bit of technical work to set it up. But if you’re trying to attract search engine traffic, it’s worth your time to understand Google Webmaster Tools.    Read More →

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Bullet Points: Monster’s LinkedIn Killer; Google Enemies; Job Interview Pitfalls

on June 28, 2011

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  • Monster starts its own job network, the Facebook app BeKnown. Now you can “manage your professional identity and your social identity in one place,” rather than through multiple sites and social networks. Yay? [Mashable]
  • CNET has a list of the companies that probably make up Google’s enemy list. And with company like this, it’s probably just an honor to be nominated.
  • Gen Y is spoiled and easily distracted. Gen X won’t stay for more than a few months (and they mope). Baby boomers, of course, are out of touch with current technology. Investing Answers has some good tips to avoid getting tarred with age-based stereotypes like these during job interviews.
  • Twitter launches #TfN, Twitter for Newsrooms, a website and guide to help media get even more acclimated to the microblogging site. Basic but useful. Berkeley’s J-school recently launched its own Twitter tutorial for journalists, too.
  • The New York Times ponders Klout and its potential weaknesses.
  • Would you fire the ranty Southwest pilot who complained about having to work with flight attendants who were a “continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes”? The odd part is when he’s told that he’s transmitting his bitchy chitchat but keeps on talking …. [The HR Capitalist]
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Bullet Points: Nerd History; Startup Founders Speak; Getting Hired at GOOG

on June 17, 2011

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The Good Guns: Google for Nonprofits

on May 3, 2011

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If you’re a Hired Gun who serves on a nonprofit’s board or works as a volunteer, you’re probably already using your creativity to help the group raise its visibility. Some extra help’s on the way: with the newly retooled Google for Nonprofits program, the number of nonprofit organizations that Google’s philanthropic branch can help each year has greatly increased. If your pet nonprofit qualifies, it could score you some significant tools.

Craig “Craigslist” Newmark recently interviewed Google.org about the program. According to the group’s product manager, Kristen Olsen Cahill, the program could net your group “$10,000 a month in advertising on Google AdWords to reach more donors, free or discounted Google Apps to cut IT costs and operate more efficiently, and premium features for YouTube and our mapping technologies to raise awareness of your cause.”

You might be scratching your head, thinking, “this will all be Greek to the executive directors and fundraisers I’m trying to help–we need to take baby steps.” But Google’s thought of that, too. They are also building resources for nonprofits and have introduced the Google for Nonprofits Marketplace, where groups can tap low-cost or free resources to help get started.

If you’ve been trying to be the catalyst of change for a nonprofit, this is your chance to get them into the 21st century….

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Where the Money’s At: Why Facebook’s Valuation Looks More Realistic Every Day

on April 14, 2011

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We hear a lot these days about Internet behemoths like Google, Apple and Microsoft–along with that relative up-and-comer Facebook. The first three companies I mention are worth $186B, $305B and $219B, respectively–they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

But I think lots of people have grossly underestimated Facebook. There’s lots of confusion about a $70B valuation for a company involved in a pretty squishy line of work–”social media.” But people are missing the bigger picture. Facebook has 600 million users, and that figure is growing. People who predict its demise perhaps continue to think of it as just status updates. But it’s a lot more than that, and it doesn’t hurt Facebook’s market share that millennials are happy to concede privacy for ubiquity; indeed, many find the very idea of privacy quaint.

Facebook sits on, I think, a far more valuable data set than the giants–it has a wealth of information about people, information that by and large is contributed voluntarily. Let’s agree that, on its surface, Facebook is as easy a company to mock as it is to admire. Many think that Facebook has taken advantage of unsustainable trends, and like Myspace before it, it’s destined to fall to earth. But that’s a mistake born of thinking of Facebook simply as a way for friends to chat with friends.    Read More →

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Can You Engineer a Better Boss?

on March 17, 2011

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Tom Burg, a twelve-year veteran of Silicon Alley, blogs for us about marketing, the digital economy, and how social media is transforming the way we all communicate.

Google’s in the news for developing a process to improve people management within the company. It looks a lot like the way the company perfects its search algorithms or makes design decisions: analyze the data and completely (some would say blindly) trust the results. Because the performance review system is entirely online, it’s also entirely searchable. The team heading up what’s known as “Project Oxygen” found correlations between the “phrases, words, praise, and complaints” used on in-house surveys, reviews, and nominations to arrive at eight traits that separate good managers from bad.

Those traits, by and large, read like they came from a Reader’s Digest management primer–having a clear vision for your team, helping with career development, and being productive and results-oriented.    Read More →

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