On average it takes someone 2 hours and 14 minutes to go through emails on a daily basis. That is a lot of time based on a 8 hours shift. Here are 5 services that you can take advantage of it, to help you decrease the time spent doing that…. Continue Reading  

Have you ever seen a movie, where the American actor speaks in a foreign language like if they knew how to speak that language for a long time?  I bet you wish it was that easy, right? Well, whether you believe it or not, it is in deed. Our brain is already wired to learn new languages in as little as 10 days; you just need to activate it.   Read More…  

It was on April 03, 1973 when Marty Cooper made the very first mobile call using a Motorola DynaTac. Nowadays, it’s nearly impossible to imagine our society without such technology.   Read More  

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Advertising History: Twitter Twitter was influenced by texting, which — group messaging aside — isn’t a big advertising platform. So it’s not surprising perhaps that despite its strong growth, Twitter still isn’t an advertising powerhouse. Part of the reason is the fear of killing the golden goose: Run too many ads and your users will flee to a competing service. But another reason is that the founders of Twitter want to invent something new. Slapping banner ads on Twitter.com cle...

Marketing: From Direct Mail to Social Media 1872: Direct marketing begins with the first direct mail catalog sent by Montgomery Ward.  The industry has continued to grow, though response rates have been declining and costs increasing, with an estimated 44% of direct mail being discarded before it is even looked at. 1900: Stores start to install phones; stores in Manhattan take orders by phone and do local delivery.  Telemarketing and cold calling follows, reaching a peak in the 1980s or ...

Marketing Lessons from Mint This guest blog post was written by Noah Kagan, Chief Sumo of web deals site AppSumo.com,  a daily deals site for web entrepreneurs. He was formerly an early employee at both Facebook and Mint. I did all of marketing at Mint until they launched and then they subsequently sold for $170,000,000. At that time I never had traditional marketing experience but more of a LOVE for the product and a strong desire to reach a target market. 3 Inbound Marketing Lessons ...

Computers and Devices When it comes to our gadgets, we live by Moore’s law, which implies that as time goes by and tech gets better, the hardware we use gets smaller and more sophisticated. Now that we’ve whittled machines that filled whole rooms down to an MP3 player the size of a Triscuit, it’s hard to say how much smaller our devices can get — but computing is continuing to evolve. The End of Computers is nigh.. In ten or twenty years, what we now call “computers” and how we...

History Of Email Our reliance on social media, instant messaging, texting and especially email is growing at a rapid rate, according to a new study. Microsoft commissioned independent market research firm MarketTools to survey 1,268 professionals and students over the age of 18 to find out about their email and online communication habits. “We wanted to have an independent observation of how people were using the different communication tools at their disposal,” Microsoft Group Product M...

Search Marketing Grow News How much is search marketing going to grow this year? Search marketing will grow 16% this year to $19.3 billion and 74% of North American ad agencies say their clients use Facebook, according to a study released Wednesday. The report, from the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, is based on an online survey of 920 companies carried out in February and March. The companies reported a rise in mobile marketing, which accounts for some of the rise in se...

JavaScript & HTML5 Are Remaking the Web - Web Design The Future Web Series is supported by Elsevier‘s SciVerse Application Marketplace and Developer Network. The SciVerse applications platform enables developers to build apps based on trusted scientific content. Learn more. HTML5 is no longer just a buzz word. It — along with JavaScript and CSS3 — is quickly helping reshape perceptions of what a web browser and web standards can achieve. With browsers implementing more HTML5 featur...

Microsoft Trying to Acquire Facebook Last month, Groupon reportedly demonstrated to Google that not everything's for sale, and it's now more certain than ever that Facebook did the same thing to Microsoft a few years ago.  A Microsoft exec confirmed this morning that his company once tried to acquire Facebook. Fritz Lanman, Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions at Microsoft, didn't make any effort to cover up the attempt, and there was no misinterpreting his words, accord...