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    • How to Understand Your Audience: Data Collection & Analysis
      The internet is a fast-paced environment. People can come to your website at any hour from a wide range of locations, each of them with different intentions or needs. Unlike physical retail stores, you can’t see who is coming in and browsing around. You don’t know much about the people reading you. How can we develop a rough profile [...]
    • Fear of Losing: Using Competitive Instincts to Your Advantage
      The Winner’s Curse is a term used to describe auctions whereby the winner will overpay because he/she overestimates the item’s actual market value. This tendency to overbid is due to factors like incomplete information or other market participants. Recent research show that people also overbid because of the fear of losing in a social compet […]
    • The Future of Content in the Age of Information Overload
      The decline of newspaper popularity has been attributed to the rise of the internet and the proliferation of web-based content. With an extremely low barrier of entry and variable cost, the web allows anyone with a computer to become an independent publisher: As a result, the amount and variety of content online far exceeds print publications in most [... […]

10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News Profile

This article is by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Building popularity on Twitter is about gaining followers, and the most fundamental and important concept to learn about building popularity is the idea that when you follow someone, they’ll get an email about it and there’s a [...]

TweetBait, April Fools and Jokes on a Blog

Written by Darren Rowse
Just after midnight last night (as it ticked over here to 1 April) I posted that I was launching a new ProBlogger service - PayPerTweet - a service that pays Twitter users to Tweet about products, services and websites.
Of the 100+ commenters to respond to the post so far the majority noticed [...]