Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 29th, 2009
“PR Newswire’s partnership with CaribPR Wire ensures that our clients will have access to the most comprehensive and targeted news distribution option in the Caribbean region,” said Joaquin Burgos, president, PR Newswire Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. “As the leader in global news distribution, PR Newswire continuously seeks alliances with organizations such as CaribPR Wire to expand and enhance our distribution capabilities. We look forward to working with CaribPR Wire to provide our clients with greater access to Caribbean audiences and to introduce Caribbean companies to PR Newswire’s full suite of communications tools.”
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 29th, 2009
With over 6 million monthly users coupled with the swell of an ecosytem to support and spread it further, the one question that lingers even as its cultural success remains unquestionable has been this…What IS Twitter’s business model. Many have answered, Search. But how, they typically ask again? Does the Twitter homepage answer that for yah?!
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Posted by suzette gardner on July 29th, 2009
A solid marketing plan must include a budget for online marketing regardless of the product or service being offered. But the best online marketing campaigns can be derailed by lousy offline sales. Here are three rules your sales rep should keep in mind the next time your phone rings:
Demo, not promo. Your potential customer has already seen the promotion on the Website – that is why they are calling so there is little need to re-state it. Move on to the next step of demonstrating how your product or service can meet his/her needs. Scheduling a Web or in person demo should be your first priority – but be sure to listen to what the customer wants. Do not force an in-person demo on someone insisting on a Web based one.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 28th, 2009
With all the mobile app stores that have sprung up in the past year, developers and brands have a raft of new ways to reach mobile users. As is so often true, however, opportunity brings new challenges, and in this case it’s monitoring sales and performance across all those platforms. Enter Distimo, a Dutch startup that tracks prices and download activity on all the major app stores.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 27th, 2009
This site is new to me. YuhRate.com, built on a sweet joomla template provides you with the platform to vent and vote for what you experienced and where. You can review hotels, attractions, restaurants and retail stores. Get our mouse and enter button ready.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 20th, 2009
I remember writing a blog post a few months ago about the blossoming of Caribbean online dating sites. We had counted 10 active sites at that time. Since that post hypedates.com has bit the dust and is now in the dotcom dead pool. In the mean time for you single ladies and dudes,there is still:
Jampersonals.com
Jamaicasingles.com
Caribsingles.com
Caribcupid.com
Caribbeanmatch.com
Westindiandating.com
Caribbeansingles.org
Caribbeanconnections.org
Caribnu.com
99% of the Caribbean sites remain free to join with no premium upgrades to pay for. All are like that except www.caribbeanmatch.com which has a basic free registration but to fully interact with other singles the membership fee begins at US$19.95 a month. I wonder how they are doing? Surely not as great as Caribsingles.com which now has 56,645 members as of today.
HypeDate.com is dead, long live HypeConnect.com
The day after publishing that Hypedates.com had hit the dotcome dead pool, the owner emailed me an update. He said “no you are wrong…. HypeDates.com has gone social/online dating. The site has changed its name to HypeConnect.com. The site is taking a wholistic approach, combining both Social and Online dating in one large Interactive Community. It is probably the first of its kind in the Caribbean. It’s a new trend. In a few weeks, lots of new features will be added to site, so check it out.”
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Posted by simone harris on July 13th, 2009
Music 2.0 has resulted in a burgeoning class of musicians around the world who are now being referred to as the ‘Musical Middle class’ – artists who now have the power to create and distribute their product across various niche markets that were previously largely controlled by media corporations and record labels. These artists are able to produce music without the help of a major record label.
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 9th, 2009
If you are starting an online startup company, there are a number of ways you can save money. Saving money early on in the startup process can mean the difference between your startup company making it big or your startup running out of money before it can hit its stride.
Here are some tips on how you can save money on an online startup:
1. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
If there are software packages out there that can do the job you need, don’t try to reinvent the wheel right out of the gates. For example, don’t try build your own blogging software when there are a number of free blogging software packages on the market.
2. Be Smart with your Host
When buying web hosting, don’t overshoot your estimates of how much traffic you will get. The smart move is to start small and improve your web hosting capabilities as the traffic dictates. More
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