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Alex Chousmith

DevelopmentMarketing

Think with Google : The Profit-Driven Marketer

Props to Corey Eulas for pointing out this excellent collection of information from Google themselves about a change in mindset to go from thinking about Marketing as a cost, to thinking about Marketing as the full profit center that it can and should be. It seems along the lines of "the more you know" / "knowledge is power." If the question is simply would you rather have a cost per acquisition of $80 or of $90, the answer is that…
June 4, 2014
CultureDesignDevelopmentMarketing

Yule Log 2.0 Happy Holidays

www.watchyulelog.com : tt doesn't get much simpler than that. Props to Tim, another Ninthlink web developer extraordinaire, for this one. Really should've set him up with his own account for blogging here, since he's been here since what, May? Maybe in 2014? Happy Yule Log days to all.
December 11, 2013
Culture

Have you seen the Yoodle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jtC8vjXw8 Seems like a particularly yule time yoodle, which'd be the Google Doodle for YouTube for their end of 2013 Rewind. What did 2013 say?
December 11, 2013
DevelopmentTips

Endurance Response Hosting Troubles – WP 3.6?

Chances are, if your website was hosted with bluehost, HostGator, HostMonster, or JustHost, your site has had some issues today. Apparently they are all run by one parent company Endurance Response, and as of writing this around 2pm on Friday afternoon, "Work continues ... to diagnose other issues that may be impacting performance.". Is it a coincidence that WordPress version 3.6, codename Oscar, was released yesterday, and less than 24 hours later some websites are just as online functional as…
August 2, 2013
Marketing

Twitter Analytics for Everyone

Did you know about this? Did everyone know about this except me? ads.twitter.com is not just for those Twitter accounts that are actually paying to show up in your timeline whether you are interested in the fact that Internet Explorer 10 is like a Swiss Army knife or not. Anyone who tweets can go to ads.twitter.com, log in with your normal twitter.com logins, and then there up at the top menu is a lovely Analytics tab. Just a quick disclaimer…
June 12, 2013