Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
Popularity: 34% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on October 16th, 2009
Forget hawking kitschy keychains on the side of the highway, these days, the real money is in virtual goods. A new study, a joint project by InsideFacebook.com and Serious Business, estimates that virtual goods saleswill double over 2008’s amount, reaching $1 billion this year and soaring to an estimated $1.6 billion in 2010.
Popularity: 5% [?]
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.
Popularity: 5% [?]
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
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 9th, 2009
Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real.Nexon’s Crazyracing KartRider game sold more than 100,000 Mini Coopers in South Korea, more than BMW’s sales of the actual car. It helped that the game’s virtual Mini cost less than $10. 2008 annual revenue for Tencent, China’s largest Internet portal: $1.05 billion. 88% of revenue comes from virtual goods. $200 million — Amount of virtual goods purchased in the U.S. in 2008. More
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 23rd, 2009
I haven’t posted a fresh blog since last week Wednesday, the day I got a call that my mom had a mild heart attack and was in the hospital. At that time nothing else mattered and what usually comes with such a shocker is a barrage of questions. My family doesn’t have a history of high blood pressure, heart disease and high cholesterol at all, for mom it’s been the simple case of living a sedentary lifestyle plus stress. She’s 72,retired, loves ice cream and loves to take her grand kids to KFC, which she insists is not fast food because it’s just chicken and all you gotta do is not eat the fries and such. Ahh mom. Thankfully she’s now out and recovering and has been doctor ordered to strict diet and exercise. But it all got me thinking about how to stay healthy while being a professional blogger.
Being a professional blogger can take long hours of sitting in a chair at a desk, tapping away at the computer. I get neck,back and wrist pains at times but I go work it all out at the gym at least 3 days a week and also get a bimonthly full body massage. So, recently I’ve personally resolved to do the following:
- Get an expensive ergonomic chair, keep my cheap desk.
- Increase gym time to 4-5 times a week and lose 15lbs.
- Get an iMac, as a laptop can seriously encourage bad posture at a desk if you’re not aware and careful.
So being active outside of blogging hours are important. Your body is made to move and like a car left unused for weeks, your body will seize up on you if you don’t give it the motion it needs. So how do you maintain a balanced lifestyle and grow a successful and profitable blog? I went to some of my colleagues for a little information and inspiration. Here are three posts that I liked alot.
1. With Better Health Comes More Money Online by John Chow
2. 10 Ways to get Fit WHILE Blogging by Problogger Darren Rowse
3. How to Avoid the Physical Hazards of Blogging by Problogger Darren Rowse
My mom’s wake up call was my reminder, a stop and check to see if I am doing what I need to live a healthy dot com lifestyle. Every now and again check yourself to see if you’re getting out and being active as much as you are being a slave to ones and zeros and making money online.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 8th, 2009
I got wind of these stats and had to share them. 24 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS are projected online by 2010* according to an eMarketer, October 2007 report. Additionally:
• Nearly 80% of African Americans in the U.S. currently have Internet access.(Source: AOL African-American Cyberstudy, 2005)
• 31% of online African American households have a high-speed connection.(Source: Pew Research Center, 2006)
• They are also among the early adopters of the mobile Internet.(Source: Yankelovich 2006 Multicultural Marketing Study)
BUT
Most say there isn’t enough online content that speaks to them as a distinct culture…(Source: AOL African-American Cyberstudy, 2005)
Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 29th, 2009
At Kingston Beta last night, a bunch of us got to talking about the amazing profits being made by Jamaican porn sites such as smutvibes.com and rudejam.com. So one of my table mates dreamed up a domain name for his potential site. It was pantydrop.com. Thinking this is a very uniquely Jamaican way of a saying, he figured it would have been available. A check via whois.net revealed that it’s being sold on Sedo.com for….ahmm US$10,000. LOL.
Popularity: 20% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 18th, 2009
You’ve been asking me, where are the women…well…here they are. You will notice pretty quickly from the list that the majority of these top female entrepreneurs are bloggers and in fact some of the top bloggers in the world. Added to that you’ll probably be surprised to know that they founded and are behind suck big internet brands such as myyearbook.com, ning.com, flickr.com,blogger.com and sixapart.com and boingboing.com. Read the details here
Popularity: 4% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 14th, 2009
Ok so I’m having listmania, bear with me, but damn aren’t they inspiring. Check this one out. The Top 30 money earining blogs and what do they blog about : internet and technology news, products and companies; celebrity gossip and entertainment; food, arts and events; speculative stock market picks;life coaching; how to make money online; how to become a problogger;affiliate marketing and others. Note well that the top three money making blogs are: Techcrunch.com, Mashable.com and Perezhilton.com and in that 1,2,3 order all make their money from advertising banners. Affliliate Marketing and PayPerClick Advertising are the other ways in which these top blog make money. Check this list in full here.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
