Tag Archives: advertising

Wired – How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend More

Always neat see­ing psy­chol­ogy at play espe­cially with com­pa­nies that excel at it.

July 15, 2011 – 1:50 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

The more I read about Groupon the more I want this busi­ness to just go away.

June 13, 2011 – 6:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Clickable Bliss Blog – iAd Policy Change: No more kid-focused apps

I can totally under­stand Apple want­ing to pull iAds from apps tar­geted towards chil­dren, how­ever that has to really hurt app devel­op­ers as apps tar­get­ing kids are prob­a­bly most often ad-supported busi­ness models

May 11, 2011 – 6:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Campaign Monitor – Successfully building brand awareness with email marketing

Email mar­ket­ing defi­antly works to get me inter­ested in pur­chas­ing a product.

May 1, 2011 – 11:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Marketing, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Chris Coyier – Loyalty Cards

Some excel­lent points here for build­ing a loyalty/reward system.

April 17, 2011 – 1:00 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, User Experience | Tagged , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Amazon to Sell Cheaper Kindle Supported by Ads

Uggh, really Ama­zon, not only is adver­tis­ing not really your thing but only 25 dol­lars off.

April 11, 2011 – 11:56 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Marketing, Quick Posts, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Pandora Discloses a Privacy-Related U.S. Inquiry on Apps

Won­der when we’ll start hear­ing some­thing what this inves­ti­ga­tion into mobile adver­tis­ing and I pre­sume pri­vacy is try­ing to discover.

April 5, 2011 – 10:33 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off