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PPC: How to Tap Into the Power of the Persona
Mar 9th
Personas are widely underused in the PPC and search marketing community as a whole. PPC advertisers have a lot to gain by completing the persona exercise and leveraging that information when managing and creating new search marketing campaigns.
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The Power of Positive PPC Ads and Attitude
Feb 21st
When it comes to gut feel, creating vivid mental images and positive associations with your ad copy starts to carry the day. It’s the subtleties of mental images and emotional associations that determine winning and losing PPC ads.
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Power Guest Posting for SEO
Feb 12th
Providing great content to authoritative people who are searching for it is a great way to build relationships with important people. This process outlines the basic tactics for power guest posting: finding websites, coming up with content, and making the
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Power Guest Posting for SEO – Search Engine Watch
Feb 12th
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Power Guest Posting for SEO
Search Engine Watch Promotional plans that use only old fashioned link building are flawed in today's SEO environment. A website may build a great link profile, but an optimal website is frequently mentioned in social media and searched for by its brand name. |
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RIAA President: Google ‘Misused Its Power’ by Protesting SOPA
Feb 8th
Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo and encouraged its millions of users base to “Tell Congress: Please don’t censor the web!” At least according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s CEO.
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Power Marketing Offers Real Estate SEO Services To Improve Search Engine Rankings – Connectus.net (press release)
Jan 31st
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Power Marketing Offers Real Estate SEO Services To Improve Search Engine Rankings
Connectus.net (press release) Power Marketing is offering real estate SEO services to improve your ranking in search engines. Power Marketing is a full-service real estate marketing firm that offers real estate SEO services to improve a company's website rankings in search engines. |
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Coffee & Power Drops Virtual Currency For Real-World Work
Jan 11th
Coffee & Power, the experimental “meta-company” that lets remote workers hire each other for small jobs, has decided to drop its virtual currency in exchange for regular old U.S. dollars. The change will have no impact on functionality or in-progress jobs; it’s simply intended to make Coffee & Power easier to adopt. Existing balances in the virtual C$ will be automatically converted to US$.
Coffee & Power was founded by Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, whose interest in virtual currencies built a thriving economy in that virtual world. But for Coffee & Power, whose users do real-world work, Rosedale thinks a real-world currency will be easier to understand.
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When Coffee & Power launched, Rosedale hoped the “sticky” nature of virtual currencies would stimulate more work. He says buying into virtual currencies – even when the exchange rate is 1-to-1 as C$ were – is an investment in the community, encouraging reinvestment rather than cashing out.
Coffee & Power charges a 15% transaction fee for money withdrawn from the system, which is how the company makes money. There’s no fee to add money, so the decision to drop the virtual currency is intended to reduce the friction even further.
Rosedale says the change is “only a brand issue.” The key aspect of Coffee & Power’s economy, he says, “is the ability to earn money and then re-spend it on others without needing to put in money of your own.” Until users withdraw money, there are no fees, so C&P workers can participate, create value and spend it without even needing a credit card. This functionality is unaffected. “For now,” Rosedale says, “it seems more likely that people will understand and start using the service if it looks like dollars.”
Last December, Coffee & Power’s first real-world workclub outside San Francisco opened in Santa Monica, Calif. It’s currently working on expanding to the Portland, Ore. and Chicago, Ill. areas. Coffee & Power is available anywhere, but the physical workclubs provide workspaces and community hubs for its members.
Yo #Chicago – we need your help to find a new CP Workclub space in the windy city: ow.ly/8p24M
— Coffee and Power (@coffeeandpower) January 11, 2012
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The Power Of Online Video Can Prove That There Is Life After Death – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 2nd
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The Power Of Online Video Can Prove That There Is Life After Death
ReelSEO Online Video News The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO,… Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West… We had the privilege of speaking with Bruce Clay … |
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Gunning For Starbucks, Coffee & Power Expands to LA
Dec 15th
Coffee & Power has opened its first official workclub in Santa Monica, CA. It’s the first expansion of the “meta-company” outside the San Francisco Bay Area. The new workclub is hosted in the offices of Sparqlight, an app for making business workflows more automated and social. The expansion wasn’t even Coffee & Power’s idea; after hearing about the site, Sparqlight asked to be involved.
Coffee & Power is an online network for connecting people together to hire each other from small jobs, or “missions.” They can be anything from software development to chauffeur service to costume design. Workers connect via the website and, if they so desire, meet in real-world workclubs like Sparqlight. The workclubs also offer a place for virtual workers to get things done. As the movement grows, not only are workers stepping up to help each other out, but building owners are actually volunteering their spaces as workclubs.
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The Future of Work
Coffee & Power co-founder Philip Rosedale is interested in nothing less than “the future of work.” Coffee & Power’s model, which also employs a virtual currency like Rosedale’s previous creation, Second Life, is explained in detail in our coverage of its launch. It’s a transaction network and job board for the new and growing independent, mobile workforce.
“I think people really get the idea that there is an under-served group of people who are part time or freelance workers who need a gathering place,” Rosedale says. The changing workforce is creating a need not just for a new kind of job, like those Coffee & Power supports, but also for new kinds of places to work. That’s why Coffee & Power’s website is grounded in physical workclubs.
The expansion to the greater L.A. area is the first step towards a national presence. The job market and building owners alike are hungry for it. “We’ve had a number of people reach out to us and say, ‘Can we just be a location for you guys? Because we’ve got space,’” Rosedale says.
Sparqlight was among the first of those. “They had 1,500 square feet at their startup that they weren’t using, and they called us up and just said, ‘Hey, can we put up your sign?’”
Joining The Movement
Sparqlight co-founder Brian Reisgen heard about Coffee & Power on launch day. He approached Rosedale’s co-founder, Ryan Downe, asking to join the movement.
Reisgen and Downe spoke on the phone about the benefits and drawbacks of turning Sparqlight’s space into a workclub. On one hand, having Coffee & Power workers buzzing away could be a distraction in the office. On the other, it would bring a constantly revolving group of diverse, creative people there. The Sparqlight team could learn from the Coffee & Power workers and vice versa. “All of that was true,” Reisgen says, “except for the downsides.”
There aren’t many missions on the map right now, but it’s early yet. Santa Monica’s startup scene is lighting up, and Reisgen says Sparqlight’s workclub has mostly been populated by high-tech workers. It’s a different arrangement than the San Francisco workclub, which is a more typical café space. “We’re an actual office,” says Reisgen. “So we miss out on the opportunities for walk-in traffic and exposure that they have,” but instead they get focused co-workers looking for an office environment.
Reisgen’s co-founder, Bryan Koch, helped start a Santa Monica co-working group called Jelly, and he was involved early with the CoLoft work space. Though their startup has a permanent, physical office, they still want the benefit of having various creative people coming in and out all the time. Even in businesses with fixed locations, the future of work is changing minds.
How To Outgrow Starbucks
Rosedale says life in the San Francisco workclub is “going great.” Its workers are still largely from the tech world as well, but SF has had some amazing and off-the-wall missions. “I think, as this kind of work style grows,” Rosedale says, “we’re going to see physical locations that are hubs for more non-tech, non-startup work.”
That will lead to more expansions, and Rosedale views workclub partnerships with locations as a win-win. “What we’ve realized from a business perspective is that, since Coffee & Power seeks to be a transaction platform for people doing jobs for each other, we’re not threatening. We’re not revenue competitive with physical locations.”
There’s no reason not to make a co-working space into a C&P workclub. That makes this idea stupendously easy to scale. “What if we could make a physical network of locations that we could grow much, much faster than, say, Starbucks can?”
Do you co-work, freelance, or otherwise participate in the future of work? Share your experiences in the comments.
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Harness the Power of Facebook, Twitter and Google+: SMX Social Media Marketing – December 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ
Nov 22nd
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