Marketing
Marketing
Marketing has been described as the ongoing process of achieving higher sales, through ways of market research, promotion of products and services, along with solid advertising. Marketing involves continuous learning of what the market wants and needs, followed by precisely and immediately accommodating these aspects, as well as providing influencing, competitive and unforgettable company representation [...]
Twitter is a social networking website, which allows their users to send instant short messages that are up to 140 characters. The website was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone in July 2005, in San Fransisco. It has now 19 millions accounts that contribute to 65 millions messages, or referred to as [...]
Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg, then aged 19, in February 2004. The website was known as thefacebook.com for the next year, until in August 2005 when it was called Facebook. It is one of the biggest social networking websites generating 250 million users by 2009 and five hundred million users at present. Facebook has [...]
Bookmarking
Bookmarking
Bookmarking refers to a web application that allows users to mark certain web pages or addresses, for the purpose of retrieving these pages at a later time. Once these web pages have been selected, they will be allocated to particular folders for future returns. By using this simple system, users would be able to access [...]
Communication Technology
Communication Technology
In a world surrounded by technology, how do we choose between adequately educating ourselves for the sake of keeping with the hip and happening crowds, and not loose the real meaning of having a face-to-face conversation? I am sure that most of us are thankful for this communication technology that has allowed us to search, [...]
The Wonders of Technology
In the vast moving trend of the business world, human kinds have relied greatly on technology. Let’s face it, there is technology for everything and whether we want to or not, we feel somewhat obligated to educate ourselves with this so called practicality. Yes, we must agree that ‘practical’ is the appropriate word to describe [...]
Internet Advertising
Create a website for love or money
There are a number of reasons why you might want to set up your own website but first of all you need to think about how to create a website that works for you. It really depends what you want out of it – most people set up a website to sell something, say something or to make money.
I’m going to look at creating a website that could generate money from internet advertising. There are different types of internet advertising that could earn you some cash but bear in mind your site must look good and perform well in order to earn any significant amount so it might be wise to invest some time and effort into the design, usability and content on the site as well as getting visitors / traffic before you look at monetising it. [Read More...]
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a website that prides in providing their users with only high quality web pages, thus avoiding information overload due to their smart application of constant filtering through the information once a search takes place. It was created in November 2001 and has a practical rating system to allow users to rate web pages collaboratively. Web pages receiving far too low rating would be removed. StumbleUpon also pay similar attention to the business intending to market their products by advertising them on the website. A company would be able to advertise their products specifically related to the users’ particular interest. For example, a user who came across websites about fashion would then be displayed with ads from companies with products related to fashions. [Read More...]