• Twitter Ads: My Experiment and the Results

    How Much Does a New Follower Cost on Twitter? That’s what I wanted to find out. I’d never ran a Twitter ad before. You can run ads for more than just new followers, you can also do it to drive more engagement (retweets, favorites, and clicks). I wanted to experiment with gaining new followers. I’d…

  • What Happened to the Color App?

    Why Did Instagram Succeed When the Color App Failed? We hope you’ve enjoyed sharing your stories via real-time video. Regretfully, the [Color] app will no longer be available after 12/31/2012. That was the message posted on Color.com [Update 7/15/2003: The site is no longer up.], the domain Color Labs paid $350,000 to acquire in 2011…

  • Backlink Bookmarks

    This is a list of sites I use to backlink from for myself and my web design, SEO, and social media marketing clients: Social Bookmarking Sites BibSonomy BlinkList Connotea Delicious Digg Diigo Fark – moderated Folkd Mister Wong Mixx – currently undergoing some changes Netvouz Reddit – moderated, but very effective StumbleUpon – can be very effective Tagza…