You have this great idea for a site and you start researching possible domain names. When you go to buy one a few days later, you find that it’s already been purchased. You find this strange because you’ve only told a few people about the name. Now you have to either try to buy the domain name back or think of a new one. Very frustrating. If this has happened to you or you’re thinking about purchasing a domain name in the future, you should take steps to protect your ideas.
Protecting Your Domain Name Ideas
Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 31, 2009

- 10 Things We Love About Facebook’s New iPhone App (Silicon Alley Insider)
- 5 Fresh Ideas for Social Media Marketers (Mashable)
- Tim O’Reilly and Web 2.0 Four Years Later (Conversation Hub)
- How to keep your website’s content fresh (B2B Web Strategy)
- What Happened to the Ad Network Apocalypse? (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Visualizing Trending Topics in Twitter (PR 2.0)
Helping Your Customers Through Consultative Selling
Posting over at Insights Group today:
It used to be that salespeople would try to convince or persuade customers that they needed your product. Often the product wasn’t a very good fit, so customers would be unhappy. Back before the Internet this wasn’t a huge problem because customers only had limited access to other potential customers (only those people they knew in person). With the widespread use of the Internet and online social networks, disgruntled customers can have a huge impact on potential sales.- Helping Your Customers Through Consultative Selling – Sarah Worsham – Insights Group
Always having the best interest of your customers in mind is best for the long term success of your business. I hope you’ll join me over at Insights for the rest of the post.
Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 28, 2009

- 3 Tactics to Increase the Number of Retweets on Your Blog (Daily Blog Tips)
- Teens Don’t Tweet? They May Start Soon (ReadWriteWeb)
- Facebook to Make More Changes to Its Privacy Policies (GigaOM)
- 101 actionable tips from 50 business bloggers (B2B Lead Generation)
- Polluting Your Blogs Comment Stream (The Bivings Report)
- How To Use Facebook Applications To Boost Your Fan Base (All Facebook)
Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 27, 2009

- When to use paid and free analytics services (Web Analytics World)
- Twitter Wants To Track Your Clicks (TechCrunch)
- YouTube opens up more viral videos to advertising (Econsultancy)
- Radio Slumps 22% in Q2; Digital Continues to Grow (Marketing Charts)
- Twitter and News Organizations (The Bivings Report)
- Learn How to Connect with Audiences to Build Loyal Communities (PR 2.0)
Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 26, 2009

- Space Shuttle Discovery Launch: Where to Follow it Online (Mashable)
- Galileo’s Telescope Debuted 400 Years Ago Today (Mashable)
- Community Can Be SO Powerful (Chris Brogan)
- How Videos Go Viral (Internet Evolution)
- Top 50 U.S. Web Properties: Facebook Enters Top 5 For The First Time (ReadWriteWeb)
- Are you on course? (Jim’s Marketing Blog)
Learn the Lingo – Domain names
Have you noticed that Industry insiders like to invent their own language? You are following along in a fascinating conversation about some interesting aspect of something and just when it is all coming together and you can sense a real strong point being made, the speaker looses you completely on some strange term or phrase or, god forbid, acronym that they just assume everyone must grok*.
Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 25, 2009

- WOW: Facebook Launches a Twitter App (Mashable)
- Facebook Releases The Twitter Exporter Tool (All Facebook)
- How long should a blog post be? What should I write about? (Insights)
- Keys to Building E-Newsletter Content (Internet Evolution)
- Getting and Keeping Customers: Search and E-Mail Tactics (Ad Operations Online)
- Barnes & Noble Finds New Revenue Streams (Marketing Charts)





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