If you’ve been managing a Facebook Business Page over the past few years, you’ve likely noticed a drop in how many of your fans have been viewing and interacting with the organic posts you publish to that page. There are two reasons for this. Why Your Organic Reach Has DeclinedContinue Reading
There’s a frustrating truth every business deals with early into its growth. To reveal that truth, I’ll start with a song title by hip-hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G.: “Mo money, mo problems.” The Notorious B.I.G. is literally saying “more money, more problems.” And although this hit song doesn’t dive intoContinue Reading
Excel is one of the world’s most popular spreadsheet programs, with an estimated 750 million people using it for data summary and organization, analysis, and reporting. While it’s a commendable data system for teams within a business, it’s not free — a standalone copy of Excel 2016 is $129.99, andContinue Reading
Today, giants define our world. A few big companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google shape our social lives, curate how we consume information, and influence what we buy. For the most part, this isn’t a bad thing: these titans offer wonderful products and services that make our lives better andContinue Reading
Bitcoin forks are invariably contentious, but the latest batch could be the most controversial yet. Bitcoin Prime and Anonymous Bitcoin have been labeled as shameless cash grabs that are little more than pump and dumps orchestrated by opportunistic developers. The projects’ architects of these schemes, naturally, have hit back. AlsoContinue Reading
Derivatives trading platform provider Plus500 posted a 284% increase in revenues in the first quarter of this year compared to the previous year, largely due to high levels of interest in its cryptocurrency CFDs offerings. Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space Triple Digit Rise On Tuesday, contractsContinue Reading
If there’s one thing that Facebook wants everyone to know it’s taking seriously, it’s the topic of ethics. The general idea of an ethical approach to everything it does — its innovations, initiatives, and new products — is executed with and undercurrent of ethics, user control, and privacy. That’s whatContinue Reading
According to Addison Group, only 18% of employers rank cover letters as important. But if you had to flip through a hundred cover letters a day, and each one began, “To whom it may concern, I am applying for the digital marketing position at your company,” how important would youContinue Reading
Do you ever feel overloaded with too many options, too much information, too many people telling you what to do to succeed? You’re not alone. Here’s an email I received, and my reply on the matter. Linda said: I don’t know if you will actually answer this, but I amContinue Reading
Ever since Reddit pulled the plug on r/darknetmarkets, deep web users have been starved of real time information on trustworthy sites and vendors. Deep Dot Web is one of the few remaining clearnet portals where information on darknet markets (DNMs) can be found. DNMs were bitcoin’s first “killer app”, andContinue Reading
The meteoric price rally by bitcoin in 2017 has made a lot of people very rich, and perhaps no one more than the owners of the trading venues themselves. Coinbase, which was valued at around $1.6 billion less than a year ago, is now priced at $8 billion by itsContinue Reading
A few months ago the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged a Staten Island-based company called Cabbage Tech with ‘fraud and misappropriation’ of funds based in Bitcoin and Litecoin. According to the CFTC, it revealed it had charged Patrick McDonnell and his company Cabbage Tech for crimes associated withContinue Reading
We kind of saw this coming, did we not? In Facebook’s most primitive days — if you can remember a time when it was restricted to college students, there was no News Feed, and status updates forced the inclusion of the word “is” — there was also the “Poke” feature.Continue Reading
In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, British economist John Maynard Keynes published the essay, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.” Keynes concluded that the Depression was only temporary and predicted that by 2030, people would work no more than 15 hours a week, devoting the rest of theirContinue Reading