I was talking with a new client the other day who spends a lot of money on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to try to get people to visit his online store. And yet his blog -- what search engines value most -- was on wordpress.com.
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Amazon the next winner of the Platform wars?
At Monday night's MIT Enterprise Forum event, Mark Anderson headlined a fascinating sideline discussion of the "Coming Tech Wreck."
1984, Google Edition
April 2013
Chances are, whenever you do anything on any website in the world, Google knows about it. That's because half of the top million sites use Google Analytics to track everywhere you go. Nearly 2/3rds of the top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics. And out of all 186 million active web sites in the world, including a huge number of spam or parked domains, nearly 16 million of them use Google Analytics.
Drupal deployment with Git Flow
At Freelock, we've been adopting a pattern for git branch management called Git Flow. If you haven't run across git flow before, go check out this article to get the basic concepts: A successful Git branching model.
Job hunting opportunity missed?
We're growing quickly at Freelock, and I've been interviewing candidates for a number of positions.
Get your customers to update your CRM for you
As we delve more and more into ways to make our customers' organizations run better, we keep an eye out for things we can do to make their jobs easier. One big problem lots of our customers have is out of date contact information for their customers, members, or audience.
Are you measuring the right things?
Business Intelligence. Customer Relationship Management. Big Data. High Speed analytics. A/B Testing.
Ask Freelock: Is there a good alternative to Quickbooks?
Will asks:
> I ... have been thinking about alternatives to QuickBooks. I sent these links to my bookkeeper but she has not used any of these. Do you recommend any of them, or is a “custom open source” option viable for me at this point?
Born to Run
I recently read the book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall. Besides being one of the best arguments for barefoot running out there, it's a great, if somewhat meandering, read. Deeper than just a fun read, however, it has a few hidden lessons in it: